ORDER-2019-52 : An Appropriation from the Contract Stabilization Fund (84042-590000) in the amount of $101,827.00 to the Police Salary & Wages and Overtime accounts(012111-511000 and 012111-513000) to fund year one of the new contract.

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▶ 5:23 Kate Lipper-Garabedian: The motion to close public comment is made by Alderman Mortimer, seconded by Vice Chair Boisselle. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? This concludes our public comment period. The first order on tonight's agenda is order 2019-52, an appropriation from the Contract Stabilization Fund, that is number 84042-590000, in the amount of $101,827 to the police salary and wages and overtime accounts which is 0 1 2 1 1 1 dash 5 1 1 0 0 0 and 0 1 2 1 1 1 dash 1 5 1 3 3 0 0 0 to fund year one of the new contract

▶ 6:09 Peter D. Mortimer: motion to recommend for passage second we have a motion to recommend for

▶ 6:11 Kate Lipper-Garabedian: passage by alderman Mortimer seconded by vice chair Boisselle I do see the police chief in attendance tonight if motion to suspend the rules second okay we have a motion to spend the rules made by alderman Medeiros seconded by alderman Mortimer all in favor aye opposed okay chief if you don't mind joining us thank you so much for being here tonight we anticipated having this meeting Monday so we appreciate that you could be flexible and be here with us instead now

▶ 6:41 Speaker 4: I believe everyone received a letter from the city solicitor on this explaining the parameters of the contract I'm available for questions

▶ 6:58 Michael P. Zwirko: Alderman Zwirko thank you madam chair this isn't a question chief I looked at the documentation in the letter that we received from the city solicitor I just really wanted to say thank you to the administration yourself and the members of the patrol patrolman's union specifically the fact that this was accepted so soon in my tenure here stretches just over three years and often we're getting an agreement that is just about to restart the negotiation process this they're only asking for money dating back to July of 2018 sometimes we sign off on these agreements and then three months later we're back in the start of a negotiation under a new contract so it's actually nice to see that the city had some foresight here as well as the Union and everybody could come together and get this done in a quicker fashion and I'm glad that the terms were reached and agreed to thank you for your comments

▶ 7:49 Monica C. Medeiros: I'm a Medeiros thank you I'm hoping if you could share for the public where we are and so this is the patrolman patrol patrol officers contract yes the

▶ 7:56 Speaker 4: supervisors are out they were both out as of July 1 of last year and this just

▶ 8:08 Monica C. Medeiros: funds one year of contract yes and I should mention too that we have some correspondence I'm not sure if it has made it to the order but I'd like to

▶ 8:25 Monica C. Medeiros: move to include the email from Carrie Ann Golden to our clerk of committees dated March 8th 2019 where she says hi Kristen the balance in the contract stabilization fund number eight four zero four is five hundred ten thousand four hundred seventy six dollars and fifteen cents if order number 2019 dash 52 in the amount of one hundred one thousand eight hundred twenty seven dollars is approved the remaining balance will be four hundred eight thousand six hundred forty nine dollars and fifteen cents second the motion to

▶ 8:59 Kate Lipper-Garabedian: amend the addendum we have a motion from Alderman Medeiros to add a correspondence to our clerk related to this contract seconded by Alderman Mortimer or I'm sorry to the balance the balance of what's left so all in favor any opposed okay we'll add that to the public record thank you thank you thank

▶ 9:20 Kate Lipper-Garabedian: you any other questions chief I just thought it would be helpful we do have in in the record both the letter from the city solicitor as well as a basic overview of the high-level components of the new contract so it includes a cost of living increase it includes a mid-career step increases and then I also notice it talks about compensatory time provisions which is something I wasn't too familiar with and can you just explain what the new term of the

▶ 9:51 Speaker 4: contract entails for that essentially is a number of officers if they stay late for a car accident or they're stuck doing a report they have the option to take comp time or overtime a lot of them take comp time so when the shift supports it an officer can have a weekend off or a night off whatever it may be an appointment this basically assists the officer as well as the city of Melrose because if an officer takes an evening off and the shift falls low the the request is that the officer take four hours because we hire in four hour increments and that's pretty much what exactly what it is just to cover the the

▶ 10:29 Kate Lipper-Garabedian: absence okay does that allow for the city for to be a little bit more predictable in terms of budgeting to sort of say it assists the police

▶ 10:36 Speaker 4: department of myself and the the admin staff as far as overtime because if an officer leaves and we have to backfill and he leaves for an hour and we have to fill for four hours so the net gain is not right so this was would would fill

▶ 10:55 Speaker 4: that loophole right pretty pretty straightforward as far as that as far as overtime it's minor impact on overtime okay that's still our biggest monsters our injuries, illness, military and training. Any other questions? We have a

▶ 11:11 Kate Lipper-Garabedian: motion to recommend and it's been duly seconded. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Okay thank you. This motion will be recommended to the full board. Thank you. You can hang out with us a little longer. Order number 2019-51 accept a fiscal year 19 pedestrian and bicycle safety grant in the amount of seven