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Resolution No. 2009-R- ~'"
"A Resolution Amending No. 2008-R-35, A Resolution Advocating A Hiring
Freeze For The City of Jeffersonville, Indiana"
WHEREAS, Indiana Code sets forth that the Jeffersonville City Council is
the fiscal body for the City of Jeffersonville, Indiana and the Council is obligated
to oversee the financial integrity of the City by developing budgets, overseeing
spending and insuring that the City's finances are handled in a reasonable and
prudent fashion;
WHEREAS, Indiana House Bill 1001, along with other external factors
such as the overall economy, delays in collecting property tax revenue, delays
in mailing property tax bills and other similar issues, have created a sense of
financial uncertainty in Jeffersonville and across the State of Indiana;
WHEREAS, the fiscal condition of all city's government throughout the
State of Indiana are in constant flux. Cities throughout the state have laid off
employees, shut down departments of government and engaged many other
drastic and necessary means to insure that government would continue to
operate within the financial confines of the budgets established, passed and
approved by the legislative body;
WHEREAS, in order to continue the operation of government within the
established budget the Jeffersonville City Council resolves that:
The City Coun shall adop~s annual budgets at the recommendation
of the Executiv h~Mof government and its Department Heads and
employees;
The City Budgets adopted provide for a specific set number of employees
to carry out the business of the City and to adequately provide services to
the citizens of the City;
The City Council implores the executive department of the City to forgo
hiring additional employees over and above that number of employees
provided for by the City Council in it's budget;
The City Council requests that the executive undertake a "freeze" in hiring
any new a„1~n~l~yecs until that time that the City has been provided an
approv d Annual~dget from the State of Indiana and/or the Department
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of Local Government Finance, its entities and/or assigns. Moreover, no
existing employees shall be permitted to receive a raise in their rate of pay
and/or income regardless of the existence of a wage "range" as set forth in
the approved budget, , approval from the City Council.
This Resolution shall not apply to and/or effect the City's owned, operated
~~ and maintained utilities and/or public works.
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This Resolution shall not serve to impede, prohibit or forbid the City ~/~-~U~
from hiring individuals to replace those individuals that may retire, be •,~
discharged or voluntarily terminate their employment with the City. ~j
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT: The City of Jeffersonville, Indiana shall
hire no additional employees over and above those number of employees that have
been budgeted for by the Jeffersonville City Council in that budget adopted pursuant to
Indiana- law.
Voted Against:
Passed this day of , 2009.
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Mayor Thomas Ga i n
Attest:~~
Pegg' Ider, Clerk-Treasurer
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