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 i...
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