 All right, it is five o'clock, so I will call to order this meeting of the finance and personnel committee We'll begin with the role all their acley All their flaky paneski. Yeah, all their Pirella All their Felde is excused Mitchell's here that makes a quorum. Will you all please stand and join me in the pledge? All right, then Barring any objection will jump over item number four the introduction of committee members and staff other than I have not yet Welcomed our new HR director so welcome, madam and We will move on to item number five, which is approval of the minutes from our January 23rd meeting All right, we have a motion and a second on the minutes seeing no discussion All in favor I All opposed chair votes. I the eyes have it the motion passes With that we are on to the main event item number six general ordinance number 20 of 22 23 In ordinance re-establishing the salaries of election officials Thank You chair. I am here today to advocate for a salary inquiries for our city's election workers The last increase that they received was in 2018 and the one before that was in 2008 and There's a lot of things that have happened in the last few years that would warrant an increase Last year when I was working on the budget I did contact several elders about coming to you with an ordinance for an increase and So there is money budgeted into the election budget for the amounts that are requested on this ordinance for the 2023 year At that time what I used was information that I had from different municipalities in Sheboyin County To come up with that pay scale if you can see in your packet There is an updated Survey that I conducted in the last several weeks and it puts us Actually at the lower end of what I had originally put into this ordinance Our election workers are essential. They are amazing They carry out what we cannot do in our office of four at ten polling locations every year and We have very we have a Lot of talented people, but it's really hard to recruit new people and to retain Especially our chairpersons who do so much more work than just on election day They call our election workers. They schedule their training They are responsible for picking up the absentee ballots in the morning They're responsible for putting all the ballots and all the paperwork in their cars at the end of the night and bringing them to us They participate in our audits and the recount and just all kinds of things. So I'm here to answer questions, but I'm advocating that This ordinance go through and that if we also want to add a whereas clause for next year when I'm working on the budget to even do another increase That would be amazing Thank you. Do we have Questions comments from the committee other flaky Panasky. I would certainly be in favor of a raise to raises in two decades It's not too much to think about I Would choose that we Since you've budgeted for the dollar amount that's included in this particular ordinance that we would recommend this ordinance and then Subsequently you could present an increase however that gets done. So I would move that we Recommend this to council All right, we have a motion do we have a second we have a motion a second for their discussion other Perala Yes, so I'm completely in favor I was just wondering if you could for next time To all when for when it goes to a common council to come up with an estimate of the actual increase Estimate so for this what is written into this ordinance for an election Is that what you're asking? Yes, so it's about three thousand dollars for like an April That's what I I looked at April and August of last year if we would have incorporated this amount and it's about three thousand for an election November of course we Employ many more election officials, so it would probably more be towards five thousand One thing I would ask is that our budgets? We'll start working on them in a few months So if you wanted me to come back in a few months before that budget cycle I'm willing to do that. Otherwise. I mean that's where I think it if I wait till the end of the year Then the money is not in there, so Right and Finally, I have a follow-up the and you didn't you didn't ask to increase the ten dollars for the Training or the special nursing home deputies is that the reason for that because that's not If that's a minimal amount and I'm willing to do look at that as well But that's we pay about ten dollars an hour for that so that it's not it's a small amount of Time that they spend doing that but right right that was more for Yeah, okay. Thank you Any other discussion on this one? And I guess I'll just give my two cents that this seeing the data from Municipalities around us compared to what we are Compensating our election workers with was a bit surprising. I They play a vital role every election that we have we absolutely need to make sure that we are not Let's say following so far behind on this one I'm perfectly happy to accept with the currently budget increases budgeted increases that we have in the current resolution, but I would encourage the conversation to be ongoing even in council once this gets referred back And if not for sure as soon as we start and the next year's budget if there's no other discussion We already have a motion and a second. I Move to recommend to the All right, seeing no further discussion all in favor of the motion All opposed chair votes. I the eyes have it the motion passes Next meeting date will be on February 27th 2023 And with that we have exhausted our agenda and are looking for a motion to adjourn We have a motion in a second when anybody like to discuss adjournment We have a few minutes Seeing none All in favor hi all opposed chair votes. I the eyes have it the motion passes. We are adjourned