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September 16, 2021 <br /> TO: Mayor Julie Moore Wolfe& Decatur City Council Members <br /> FROM: Scot Wrighton, City Manager <br /> RE: Repeal of Residency Resolution <br /> On September 7, 2021 the City Council approved a new collective bargaining agreement with <br /> the police union which, among other things, enacted a major policy change regarding residency <br /> requirements for police officers.Although City Council members would like the majority of city <br /> employees to make their personal residences inside the Decatur city limits,they acknowledged <br /> that residency requirements are under increasing attack by arbitrators in Illinois, and that <br /> residency requirements may have the unintended consequence of reducing the pool of <br /> prospective new employees. <br /> Adoption of a new residency policy reflecting the council's new residency position is a matter <br /> that will be changed administratively(as it has in the past; i.e., by internal action of the city <br /> manager).The new administrative policy will require residency inside the city's corporate limits <br /> for employees with department head rank and above, and certain other positions, it will retain <br /> other restrictions on residency that are contained in collective bargaining agreements (i.e., <br /> residency in Macon County), and it will provide for future incentives to live inside the city. <br /> To clear the way for these administrative actions, however,the City Council needs to repeal a <br /> resolution it adopted in 2016 (attached) regarding employee residency. It is recommended that <br /> the resolution repealing R2016-49 be adopted. <br />