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APPRO-2025-42 : An Appropriation from Free Cash (account 01-324001) in the amount of $60,000 to Human Resources (#152) to fund the employee separation incentive.
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(ID # 12723) Appropriation An Appropriation from Free Cash (account 01-324001) in the amount of $60,000 to Human Resources (#152) to fund the employee separation incentive. Ought to Pass City Council City of Melrose Page 2 6/13/2025 12:04 PM
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▶ 2:11:13 Speaker 10: Councilor Vandiver? Yes. Council Williams? Yes. President Melli? Yes. Chair Garipay? Yes. Motion passes.
▶ 2:11:21 Speaker 12: Okay. Thank you.
▶ 2:11:22 Speaker 2: Thank you. Enjoy your night. What's left of it?
▶ 2:11:24 Mark Garipay: Appropriations request for FY 25 ID 1 2 7 2 3. An appropriation from free cash account 0 1 3 2 4 0 0 1 in the amount of $60,000 to human resource number 1 52 to fund the employee separation incentive. We have Ms. Lauren Grek in front of us tonight to speak to this order.
▶ 2:11:50 Speaker 10: Sure. Um, appropriation, so this was an order, um, or an administrative request that the mayor put forth, um, back in the beginning of the calendar year as a way to start to try to close the budget gap. I believe y'all received, um, an email from her back in March stating that she was moving forward to this and she spoke to it. I believe it was May 8th, um, with the CFO Golden with all of you. Um, we had four employees who were interested in taking the voluntary incentive, so it's four people at $15,000. Happy to answer questions.
▶ 2:12:24 Mark Garipay: There was a memo also in there from, um, Ms. Lata. Yep. Um, we have, uh, questions, uh, co I'm sorry, council Stewart and Council Williams.
▶ 2:12:34 Robb Stewart: Uh, I had no questions. I was going to make a motion to recommend to the full council.
▶ 2:12:38 Speaker 7: Second. Okay.
▶ 2:12:40 Mark Garipay: Um, we have a motion to recommend by Council Stewart, seconded by President Elli on discussion. I have Council Williams.
▶ 2:12:47 Ryan Williams: I I am sure this is, I'm sure that you've thought through this. Um, with the custodian position in particular. I know we've talked about reductions in the fire department, um, the library assistant position. Sad to see those folks go, but when I look at the custodian position, like so do we have enough flexibility in the custodian, um, staffing category to lose a person?
▶ 2:13:10 Speaker 10: Yeah. So as the mayor stated, that's a position that would have to be filled. Right? We need a custodian. Um, this, it's a specifically a school custodian. Right? Um, what we are looking at right now is exactly that. Is it a new person that comes in or do we shift around someone, um, from somewhere else? Yeah. Um, within the DPW.
▶ 2:13:32 Ryan Williams: Okay. Um, and the patrol officer too. We've heard a lot about minimum mm-hmm. Coverage for that.
▶ 2:13:38 Speaker 10: Yep. And I know Chief Fowler will be here, I believe Thursday night with you all, so I'm sure he'll Okay. Okay. Have some, some more to say about that. I believe it's two officers that he'll be down. Okay.
▶ 2:13:50 Speaker 2: Thank you. Yeah. Any other questions on discussion?
▶ 2:13:53 Mark Garipay: Madam Clerk, will you please call the role?
▶ 2:13:56 Speaker 2: Sure. Thank you.
▶ 2:13:57 Speaker 10: Counselor Jamine? Yes. Counselor Hamilton? Yes. Counselor Carrum Cheney? Yes. Counselor Osky? Yes. Councilor Romanul? Yes. Councilor Stewart? Yes. Councilor Vanderberg? Yes. Councilor Williams? Yes. President Elli? Yes. Chair Garin? Yes. Motion passes.