IMMEDIATE ADOPTION
Number
030551
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
030156
Sponsor
ALD. D'AMATO, GORDON AND MURPHY
Title
Resolution requesting the Fire and Police Commission to direct the Police Chief to limit expenditure of funds for police overtime.
Analysis
This resolution requests the Fire and Police Commission to direct the Police Chief to limit the expenditure of funds for police overtime to a maximum of $375,000 per pay period, commencing with Pay Period 19, which begins August 31, 2003.
Body
Whereas, The Common Council approved File Number 021045 on November 8, 2002, a resolution implementing a footnote provision of the 2003 City budget relating to police overtime pay; and
Whereas, File 021045 directed that the money in the Police Department's 2003 overtime account be transferred to a Special Purpose Account under the Control of the Common Council; that one-quarter of the total funds in this account shall be disbursed to the Police Department at the start of each quarter for use in paying police overtime; that the Police Chief is requested to present, in person, within 45 days of the start of each quarter, a report to the Finance & Personnel Committee detailing the status of the Police Department's overtime expenditures; and that the Comptroller is authorized and directed to create all accounts and to establish the accounting procedures necessary to fulfill this intent; and
Whereas, The provisions of File 021045 were not implemented; and
Whereas, As of pay period 15, July 3, 2003, Police Department overtime has totaled $9.85 million, or approximately $656,000 per pay period as adjusted for the Milwaukee Police Association (MPA) settlement; and
Whereas, Using the pay period average of $650,000, the Police Department could spend over $17.1 million on overtime in 2003, or $7.2 million over its MPA settlement adjusted budget of $9.8 million; and
Whereas, The Violent Crime Task Force has expended $3.6 million in overtime and accumulated $1.0 million in compensatory time for a total liability of $4.7 million; and
Whereas, If the Police Department continues implementation of the task force at its current pay period average, the Violent Crime Task Force could spend $6.5 million in overtime and accumulate $1.8 million in compensatory time in 2003; and
Whereas, The MPA settlement adjusted salary budget for the Police Department is $128.7 million for 2003, amounting to a pay period average of more than $4.9 million; the department's actual average is $5.2 million per pay period or approximately $250,000 more than budgeted per pay period; and
Whereas, The Police Department could spend $138.1 million in salaries or approximately $9.3 million more than budgeted, yet this account cannot go negative or the Police Department will not have sufficient funds to cover the payroll for pay periods 25 and 26, November 23 - December 20, 2004; and
Whereas, It is in the best interest of the City of Milwaukee and its taxpayers to limit the further expenditure of funds for overtime for the remainder of 2003; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that the Police Chief is requested to limit the expenditure of funds for police overtime to a maximum of $375,000 per pay period, commencing with Pay Period 19, which begins August 31, 2003; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners has reviewed the expenditure of funds for police overtime and is requested to direct the Chief, pursuant to the Board's authority under S.62.50(23), Wis. Stats., to comply with the Common Council's request to limit the expenditure of funds for police overtime to a maximum of $375,000 per pay period, commencing with Pay Period 19, which begins August 31, 2003.
Requestor
Drafter
mcw/lrb
msd.mpd.ot.limit.1
7/30/03