City of Milwaukee - File #: 241259

• File #: 241259
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 11/26/2024
• In control: FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE
• Final action: 12/17/2024
• Title: Substitute resolution directing the Department of Administration - Budget and Management Division and the Comptroller to create quarterly reports on all vacant positions, beginning Pay Period 1, 2025.
• Sponsors: ALD. COGGS, ALD. PEREZ, ALD. CHAMBERS JR., ALD. MOORE
• Indexes: COMPTROLLER, DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION, REPORTS AND STUDIES

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
12/19/2024	1	MAYOR	SIGNED
12/19/2024	1	MAYOR	SIGNED
12/17/2024	1	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	14:0
12/11/2024	1	FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION; Minutes note: Ald. Moore added as a cosponsor.	Pass	5:0
12/2/2024	1	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
11/26/2024	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number

 241259

Version

SUBSTITUTE 1

Reference

 240001

Sponsor

ALD. COGGS, PEREZ, CHAMBERS AND MOORE

Title

Substitute resolution directing the Department of Administration - Budget and Management Division and the Comptroller to create quarterly reports on all vacant positions, beginning Pay Period 1, 2025.

Analysis

This resolution directs the Department of Administration - Budget and Management Division and the Comptroller to create quarterly reports on all vacant positions, beginning Pay Period 1, 2025. The resolution implements a footnote in the 2025 Adopted Budget.

Body

Whereas, Throughout the year, hundreds of positions within City departments are vacant for a variety of reasons, such as recent employee separations or retirements; and

Whereas, As of October 2024, the Milwaukee Police Department had 651 vacant positions, which is the most vacancies of any department; and

Whereas, While vacancies increase the workload of existing employees, vacancies also lower costs since total salary and benefit expenditures are reduced; and

Whereas, Creating quarterly reports on vacant positions allows the Common Council to understand total cost savings and to plan future departmental personnel adjustments; and

Whereas, Amendment 6 placed a footnote in the 2025 Budget stating, “The Department of Administration - Budget and Management Division and the Comptroller [are directed] to create quarterly reports on all vacant positions, beginning Pay Period 1, 2025”; now, therefore, be it

Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that the Department of Administration - Budget and Management Division and the Comptroller are directed to create quarterly reports on all vacant positions, beginning Pay Period 1, 2025; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Department of Administration - Budget and Management Division and the Comptroller are directed to report the funding amounts that were unspent per quarter as a result of vacant positions, and to report if and how the funds were reallocated.

Requestor

Drafter

LRB180318-2

Alex Highley

12/2/2024