Monday, January 12, 2015

Council Rejects Fleet Manager Ordinance

Creation of a fleet manager title faltered Monday as the proposed ordinance failed to gain consensus for a vote at the Jan. 20 regular meeting.

Council members Cory Storch, Diane Toliver, Tracey Brown and Council President Bridget Rivers abstained from consenting to move the ordinance to the agenda, while Vera Graves said "no" and Rebecca Williams said "yes." Gloria Taylor was absent.

In public comment, resident Kim Montford asked whether someone was being considered for the job and if so, who that might be. City Administrator Rick Smiley said the job would be posted. The manager would be in charge of repairs, maintenance and replacement of all city vehicles, he said, in answer to another of Montford's questions.

Rivers asked whether department heads should take care of their own vehicles, but Smiley said, "We need somebody to manage all those vehicles."

A separate salary ordinance setting a pay range from $70,887 to $102,079 was dropped once the council job title ordinance was rejected.

Rivers suggested the job could be part-time at half the cost and also asked whether the manager would make repairs or just send work to a body shop.

"It sounds like a duplication of service," she said.

Greaves questioned what the savings would be and why it had not been done before.

All the issues became moot when the measure failed to gain consensus to be put on next week's agenda.

--Bernice

3 comments:

  1. Imagine the first argument when there was only enough $ to only fix the Mayor's or Fire Chief's car ???

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  2. I think the Police, Fire and Public Works Division should manage their own fleet. The other aspects of the fleet management were under the responsibilities of the Purchasing Agent and there is no need for this position. Sounds like it was a job for someone for sure.

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  3. if Greaves wanted to know "why it wasn't done before," perhaps she should ask our self-esteemed former mayor!

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