TRNSF-2024-3 : Requesting a transfer of funds from the Group Health budget, account number 019142-549201, in the amount of One Hundred and Two Thousand Dollars ($102,000) to various accounts within the HR Department.

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▶ 20:51 Robb Stewart: Okay. We have the second transfer, uh, 2024 dash three requesting a transfer of funds from the group health budget. Account number 1 9 1 1 9 0 1 9 1 4 2 dash 5 4 9 2 0 1 in the amount of $102,000 to various accounts within the HR department.

▶ 21:15 Speaker 6: Good evening. So, um, I'm here tonight to request transfer of funds from the group health budget to various accounts in the amount of $102,000. And these accounts are, um, the human resources expense account. There's two of them, $2,000 in advertising and $17,000 in physical exams. The reason for this request is to, um, continue advertising and recruiting for existing vacancies that we have. Um, in addition to that, the physical exams line item, uh, we are required to pay for pre-employment exams for police, fire, public works and Memorial Hall. Um, new hires this fiscal year, we had four public safety candidates who went through the pre-employment exam process. However, unfortunately did not result in hires for various different reasons. Um, these exams are pretty expensive, so they depleted half of, uh, the budget, the pre-employment exams budget. So the additional funds are requested to pay for pre-employment exams for current, um, candidates, pending candidates, which includes, um, 11 firefighter candidates.

▶ 22:36 Speaker 6: In addition to that, um, I'm requesting $25,000 to go into the workers' comp budget. Um, medical, ex medical, um, expenses and $35,000 for workers' comp, uh, benefits. Our, um, benefits are required. The benefits budget is required to pay the city obligation for, um, any indemnity benefits for current long-term and short-term recipients of workers' comp benefits. And they're required to cover the rest of the fiscal year.

▶ 23:17 Speaker 6: The $25,000 workers' comp, um, medical that I'm requesting is needed to pay for any anticipated known medical expenses as well as unknown, um, medical, uh, cost, workers' comp cost. And the final line item that I would like to request a transfer to is our unemployment line item 2020 $3,000. And these funds, again, are necessary to cover for anticipated and unanticipated, um, benefit cost for the, for the remainder of the fiscal year. Uh, we have three more months that we have to pay, um, unemployment costs for, and the funds are available in our group health budget due to the number of vacancies throughout the year that have not been, uh, filled. So any questions I can answer?

▶ 24:08 Robb Stewart: Thank you, Ms. Lata. Any questions from the council? Council, vice chair? Vandiver.

▶ 24:14 Kimberly Vandiver: Thank you. Uh, I, I was just wondering about the physical exams and, and their expense. Um, so you mentioned there were four, um, candidates who had the physical exams and, and left the system, um, already Mm-Hmm. And the request is to transfer 17,000 for physical exams. So is it about 4,000 per exam or how much does it cost for a physical

▶ 24:35 Speaker 6: Exam? No, yeah, no, I'm, I'm happy to explain.

▶ 24:40 Speaker 6: Uh, alright, lemme just get my, okay. So for our firefighter, um, exams, it's about, um, a thousand dollars for their pre-employment physical exam, and three 50 for their pre-employment psychological exam. Um, right now we have, um, hired three mts, who will be starting actually in the month of April. And, um, we've paid actually for their exams and we have eight more vacancies that we have to fill. So that's eight vacancies times, um, about almost 10,000, I'm sorry, 1300 per vacancy. Mm-Hmm. We also have, um, a DPW vacancy that we're anticipating. We have a memorial hall, uh, labor operations system that we're anticipating to pay for pre-employment exams. And, um, so these are the known exams.

▶ 25:42 Speaker 7: Okay. Thank you.

▶ 25:46 Robb Stewart: Any other questions? What is the will of the committee

▶ 25:52 Speaker 5: Motion to recommend?

▶ 25:56 Robb Stewart: Second. So have a motion to, uh, recommend by Councilor Romanul seconded by Councilor Chetty under discussion. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay. This is, uh, going to be sent to the full counsel with, uh, recommendation, uh, that concludes our business for this evening. And without objection, I will motion to adjourn.