2005-23 AMENDING CITY CODE - CHAPTER 7 - OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES GENERALLY

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� + • 1 DECATUR POLICE DEPARTMENT MEMORANDUM#OS-12 March 9, 2005 TO: Mayor Paul Osborne and City Council FROM: Steve ity Manager Mark Barth , Chief of Police M� SUBJECT: Ordinance to end Chapter 7, City Code SUMMARY RECOMMENDATION: Council should pass the attached ordinance amending City Code Chapter 7, Section 2, Officers and Employees GenerallX,to include the newly created position of Emergency Communications Coordina.tor. BACKGROUND: In June of 2001,the Decatur Police Department was reorganized. The restructure involved combining the Professional Standards Bureau with the Emergency Communications Bureau to form the Administrative Operations Division. The primary reason for crea.ting the Administrative Operations Division was to remove total control over the highly technical Emergency Communications function from a Deputy Chief of Police,and place it under the immediate supervision of a veteran civilian supervisor. This freed the Deputy�hief to focus on development of subordinates assigned to the Professional Standards Bureau,as well as allowing the civilian communications supervisor to develop advanced managerial skills and provide the department administration with greater management options for the Ceuter in the future. There were five civilian Emergency Communications Supervisors assigned to the Emergency Communications Center at the time of the reorganization. The restructuring called for one of those five supervisors to be appourted to the newly created position of"Emergency Communications Coordina,tor", providing for oversight of the supervisors and managing the day to-day administrative functions of the Center. The Coordinator would answer directly to the Deputy Chief of the Administrative Operations Division. During 2001,the City was under tight fiscal restraint. The permanerrt creation of a new position was not feasible at thax time. The reorganiza.tion was completed by selecting one of the five supervisors in the Center and tempora.rily appointing them as the coordinator. The intent was to make the coordinator's � position permanent as soon as it was fiscally possible. Because a pay adjustment was given to the coordina.tor to compensate for the additional duties when the temporary appointment was made,the creation of the permanent position by the passing of this ordinance does not adversely affect the department's cunent budget. POTENTIAL OBJECTION: None arrticipated. , STAFF REFERENCE: I Mark Barthelemy, Chief of Police,telephone 424-2741 E-mail mark.barthelemy@decaturnet.org Cluef Barthelemy will be attending the meeting