NUMB:
971691
VERS:
ORIGINAL
REF:
XXBY:
THE CHAIR
TITL:
Resolution directing all city departments to submit requests to fill all vacant positions to the Finance and Personnel Committee.
ANLS:
- Analysis -
The Mayor declared a hiring freeze effective October 31, 1997. As a result, departments have been discouraged from submitting requests to fill vacant positions, and the Budget and Management Division -DOA, which is responsible for reviewing such requests prior to their being acted upon by the Finance and Personnel Committee, has been selectively recommending that only certain positions be exempted from the hiring freeze. This resolution directs all city departments to submit requests to fill all vacant positions, including all positions currently vacant, and all positions as they become vacant or are anticipated to become vacant, and to also include a list of positions which the Finance and Personnel Committee had authorized to fill prior to the Mayor's October 31, 1997, directive which have not been filled as a result of the directive, directly to the Finance and Personnel Committee (as well as to the BMD - DOA), so that the committee may closely monitor the growing number of vacancies and their current and projected impact on provision of city services.
BODY:
Whereas, Mayor John Norquist declared a city employment hiring freeze effective October 31, 1997, intended to protect Milwaukee taxpayers from property tax increases should the city be held financially liable for various court decisions and pending lawsuits involving the city's pension system; and
Whereas, The Mayor has indicated that the hiring freeze is intended to generate budgetary savings to avoid the necessity of increasing Milwaukee taxpayers' tax bills or implementing significant city employe layoffs should higher courts continue to decide against the city; and
Whereas, The Mayor has further indicated that he intends to maintain the hiring freeze until such time a...
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