Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Presiding: Vice Mayor Viramontes · Called to order: 7:08 p.m. · 0 items · 3 votes · 15 public comments
What happened
- Rejected proposal to raise police officer pay to improve recruitment.
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Personnel(1 item)
Consider raising police officer pay to improve recruitment
In Plain English
The Finance Committee studied ways to make Richmond more competitive in hiring police officers. Many Bay Area cities struggle to recruit officers as candidates choose departments with better pay and benefits. The committee will present options for salary increases or benefit improvements to help fill vacant positions.
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Votes
Approve the contract
6 to 3
Approved the contract and requested that the names of the firms that responded, criteria used to choose firms, and names of persons who selected the firm be submitted to Council in writing
Appointed Mayor Anderson as voting delegate and Councilmember Marquez as the alternate
Directed staff to provide a written report in a couple of weeks of what is currently being done and resolve what is planned to deal with these issues in the future
Directing the City Attorney to give code enforcement in railroad right-of-ways the highest priority and enforce code violations aggressively, with staff returning by January 15, 2007, to the City Council, with an agreement with the railroad companies on how they are going to clean up the graffiti and litter on their property
5 to 2
That a $1 million payment be made upon execution of this agreement and be taken off the first payment due should the project go forward