City of Milwaukee - File #: 101459

• File #: 101459
• Version: 2
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 3/23/2011
• In control: PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE
• Final action: 12/20/2011
• Title: Substitute resolution requesting the Fire and Police Commission to conduct a study of all sworn positions in the Fire and Police departments to identify all positions that can be reclassified as civilian positions.
• Sponsors: ALD. WADE, ALD. WITKOWSKI, ALD. PUENTE, ALD. COGGS
• Indexes: FIRE AND POLICE COMMISSION, POSITIONS ORDINANCE

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
12/27/2011	2	MAYOR	SIGNED
12/20/2011	2	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	15:0
12/8/2011	2	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION; Minutes note: Individual present: Ald. Wade Mike Tobin - Director of Fire and Police Commission	Pass	5:0
4/21/2011	1	CITY CLERK	Sponsor added
4/21/2011	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HELD TO CALL OF THE CHAIR; Minutes note: Individuals present: Ald. Wade Michael Tobin - Director of Fire and Police Commission Ald. Witkowski requested that the second last paragraph of the resolution be amended to include the words "and to provide any other information from past studies that could produce efficiencies." This request was made into a motion by Ald. Witkowski. Prevailed by the following vote: 3-0 (Ald. Witkowiak absent, Ald. Davis Excused) Ald. Witkowski and Puente would like to be added as sponsors. There were no objections. Ald. Puente moved to hold this item for one cycle and request that the Fire & Police Commission to provide the committee with further information.	Pass	3:1
4/15/2011	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
4/15/2011	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
4/15/2011	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
4/15/2011	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
4/15/2011	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
3/23/2011	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
101459
Version
SUBSTITUTE 2
Reference

Sponsor
ALD. WADE, WITKOWSKI AND PUENTE
Title
Substitute resolution requesting the Fire and Police Commission to conduct a study of all sworn positions in the Fire and Police departments to identify all positions that can be reclassified as civilian positions.
Analysis
This resolution requests the Fire and Police Commission to conduct a study of all sworn positions in the Fire and Police departments to identify all positions that can be reclassified as civilian positions and to provide any other information from past studies that could produce efficiencies.
Body
Whereas, Governor Scott Walker’s 2011-13 Executive Budget will reduce the City of Milwaukee’s allocation of State Shared Revenue by over $10.3 million; and

Whereas, The Governor’s Executive Budget will also:

1. Reduce the levy-increase limit and Expenditure Restraint Program limit for municipalities.

2. Require that any savings in a municipality’s debt service be passed along as a tax-levy reduction.

3. Eliminate recycling grants to municipalities, including $3.3 million for Milwaukee.

4. Reduce General Transportation Aid funding to local governments by 10 percent; and

Whereas, These State-imposed fiscal constraints, together with continued weakness in the economy and stagnant or falling property values, will make it more difficult for the City to develop, for 2012 and beyond, balanced budgets that fund the level of services that Milwaukee residents need and deserve at a price they can afford; and

Whereas, Personnel costs account for 84.9% of the City’s general purpose spending (2011 Budget); and

Whereas, The Police and Fire departments account for 64.1% of the City’s O&M-funded, full-time-equivalent positions (2011 Budget); and

Whereas, Since sworn positions in the Police and Fire departments are generally compensated at higher rates than civilian positions, one means of reducing the personnel costs of these departments is to increase th...