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A
A
A
Seeing
none
I
would
like
to
start
the
meeting
by
recognizing
that
we
lost
a
valuable
member
of
our
community
over
the
weekend.
Please
join
me
in
a
moment
of
silence
for
conference
County,
legislator,
Henry
granison,
to
be
remembered.
He
was
a
colleague
and
friend,
who
will
be
much
missed.
So
please
join
me
in
a
moment
of
silence.
A
Previous
Mayors
and
councils
have
called
for
this
model
of
council
manager
organizational
structure
for
years,
because
it
will
allow
for
greater
transparency,
responsiveness
and
efficiency,
I'm
grateful
for
my
campaign
supporters
and
all
who
voted
for
me
in
this
election.
My
opponents
and
I
did
raise
issues
of
significance
for
our
community
and
I
thank
them
for
their
enforcements.
A
I,
look
forward
to
this
opportunity
to
continue
serving
and
all
in
our
city
and
City
the
place
I've
called
home
and
loved
for
many
years,
as
we
turn
tonight
to
our
important
word
of
the
Sleep
budget.
I
cannot
let
the
moments
pass
without
saying.
First,
how
dismayed
I
was
and
still
am
by
the
tone
and
tenor
of
comments
directed
at
our
senior
Staff
last
Wednesday,
respectful
engagement,
even
deep
disagreements
are
part
of
our
democracy
and
civil
discourse.
A
I
asked
my
colleagues
to
consider
the
power
of
our
words,
our
actions
and
our
inactions,
where
we
need
additional
information
prior
to
reaching
conclusions.
We
should
say
as
much.
Instead
of
rushing
to
judgment,
while
always
appreciative
of
hearing
from
city
employees,
whether
that's
in
the
hallways
of
City
Hall
and
pure
Road,
streets
and
Facilities,
or
at
ipb
headquarters,
I
always
appreciate
hearing
those
voices
and
yet
I
was
appalled
to
hear
employee
morale
issues
which
are,
admittedly
in
need
of
being
addressed.
A
B
I
really
enjoyed
working
with
Donna
Fleming,
Deb
molinoff,
former
Chief
and
staff
and
Cogan
I'm,
Rob
Gerhart,
and
then,
of
course,
mayor
Lewis,
among
others,
to
make
the
city
manager
a
referendum
a
reality.
B
A
very
positive
projects
will
serve
us
for
a
long
time,
but
to
the
matter
at
hand.
B
Last
Friday,
a
woman
who
I
have
never
met
called
my
office,
crying
to
express
sympathy
and
support
for
me
after
watching
what
she
described
as
a
mob
on
the
attack
at
Wednesday's,
former
Council
mobs
operate
on
real
Grievances
and
limited
tracks,
as
this
one
did
and
they
find
someone
to
blame
right
or
wrong.
I've
received
similar
Outreach
from
Community
leaders,
multiple
former
members
of
the
common
Council,
an
uninvolved
City
department
heads
expressing
their
Sympathy
for
the
abuse
of
last
week
and
their
long-standing
experience
of
my
commitment
to
this
city.
B
I'm,
a
strong
believer
in
free
speech
and
a
strong
believer
in
collective
bargaining,
a
process
that
is
built
on
candid
and
sometimes
painful
extremities,
as
that
goes
I,
want
to
thank
those
city.
Employees
who
spoke
respectfully
and
factfully
on
the
Nerds
last
week
as
well
as
you
should
I'll
readily
agree.
Now,
as
I
long
have
in
word
and
action
that
increasing
many
of
our
employees,
compensation
is
critical,
especially
in
this
difficult
inflationary
period.
B
We
live
in
a
time
of
fact-free
political
movements.
I
have
been
at
the
heart
of
ithaca's
governance
for
a
decade,
my
office
literally
on
the
back
door
that
connects
directly
into
the
mayor's
office
and
I
am
here
to
tell
you
that
Ithaca
has
long
been
and
I
believe
still
is
better
than
that,
and
yet
a
critical
and
critical
mass
of
this
common
Council
commended
the
most
outrageous
and
threatening
of
the
speakers
for
so-called
bravery
last
week,
and
they
did
this
without
Gathering
any
facts
from
staff.
B
A
B
Second,
the
city
is
carrying
over
200
million
dollars
in
post-employment
liabilities,
which
has
forced
a
recent
downgrade
in
our
long
graded,
meaning
that
the
city
pays
more
to
borrow
money
now
than
it
needs
to,
and
that
is
on
top
of
the
increased
cost
of
borrowing
resulting
conserving
interest
rates.
What
do
those
words
mean?
First
and
foremost,
they
mean
their
retiree
health
insurance
for
our
employees,
that
they
measured
back
payer
cost.
B
Third
employee
benefits
can
add
over
50
to
the
salary
cost
of
many
physicians
in
city
government
that
can
include
health
insurance
that
runs
over
thirty
one
thousand
dollars
per
employee
or
family
plan,
of
which
the
city
pays.
Roughly
twenty
five
thousand
dollars
for
employment,
important
the
city
of
the
unions,
have
both
been
eagerly
awaiting
the
compensation
study
that
is
to
be
delivered
to
our
HR
department
by
an
outside
consultant.
B
Each
is
as
false
as
the
next
I
got
into
government,
because
I
cared
I
care
about
our
employees
and
I
care
about
delivering
for
our
community
and
as
someone
who
is
born
at
Cayuga,
Medical
Center
and
raised
in
the
efficacy
in
the
Ithaca
City
Schools,
including
bjm.
A
few
walks
that
way.
It
is
no
surprise
that
I
care
most
about
this
community.
That
is
why
I
have
devoted
a
decade
of
my
life
at
the
heart
of
this
college.
B
B
This
is
simply
false
across
my
decade,
in
this
office,
I
had
brief
counsel
numerous
times
so
sometimes
by
email,
often
an
executive
session
on
labor
Contracting
dictation
Council
has
always
recognized
its
ability
to
request
an
executive
session.
If
you
had
questions
and
needed
more
information
each
time
we
reach
an
agreement
with
a
Union
Council
votes
to
approve
that
contract
and
we
hold
an
executive
session
each
time.
We
do
a
degree
view
another
book
during
my
decade.
B
In
this
office
we
have
successfully
settled
and
Council
has
approved
many
labor
contracts,
delivering
a
substantial
cumulative
reasons
across
all
bargaining
units
of
the
city.
But
what
are
the
points
we
on
the
negotiating
team?
Brief,
the
mayor
weekly
on
the
status
of
negotiations,
as
we
did
with
mayor
Martin
for
the
past
decade.
B
B
So,
let's
talk
about
delivering
value
to
our
employees.
We
are
genuinely
frustrated
that
raises
have
not
reached
employees
faster,
particularly
our
DPW
unit
employees,
who
are
among
who
are
among
those
and
most
in
need
of
a
raise
and
who
then
voted
down
the
13
rage
that
we
had
agreed
on
with
their
leadership
at
the
table.
It
takes
two
detangle,
although
it
may
sound,
unions
absolutely
can
prevent
sizable
raises
by
insisting
on
unrealistically
loved
ones.
B
Bpw
voted
down
a
deal
that
their
own
leadership
reached
at
the
table,
which
included
13,
raises
seven
percent,
which
seven
percent
of
which
would
have
taken
effect.
Roughly
seven
weeks
from
today,
the
employees
and
the
public
can
and
should
evaluate
those
raises
on
their
merits
and.
A
B
Feel
that
they
are
sufficient,
but
there
is
no
bad
hate
in
13
Reasons,
nor
is
the
city
alone
locally
or
nationally
and
settling
recent
contracts
at
the
negotiating
table,
with
Union
leadership
only
for
the
union
membership
to
vote
it
down.
This
happens
twice
at
Cornell
with
the
same
Union,
namely
their
UAW
unit.
B
A
year
ago
we
settled
the
BBA
contract
to
cover
a
10-year
window.
That
was
a
painstaking
Endeavor
that
took
perhaps
a
thousand
staff
hours.
The
PBA
ran
an
ad
campaign
on
the
side,
the
precap
buses,
but
the
deal
got
done
at
the
table
and
when
all
was
said
and
done,
the
city
signed
a
contract
under
Richmond
paid
out,
2.2
million
six
hundred
and
thirty
thousand
dollars
up
front,
with
a
total
cost
increase
to
the
city
of
four
and
a
quarter
million
dollars.
B
Last
week
came
with
quite
a
bit
of
commentary
around
the
cities
of
health
insurance.
So
I'd
like
to
talk
about
that
as
well
and
share
some
information
there,
both
last
year's
BBA
contract-
and
this
follows
BPW
executive
agreement.
It
included
the
excelis
platform
plan,
so
does
the
CSEA
admin
contract
that
was
voted
into
effect
by
the
union
and
the
common
Council
in
August
of
2021.
B
B
Objections
in
2020.
this
is
not
a
unilateral
Excursion
by
one
or
even
a
few
staff
members.
It
is
a
necessary
transition
in
the
long-term
cost
structures
of
the
city.
So,
let's
talk
more
about
the
part.
The
the
Platinum
plan
will
cost
roughly
twenty
four
thousand
dollars
per
year
for
a
family
plan
next
year,
eighty
percent
of
which
the
city
pays.
B
It
covers
roughly
90
percent
of
the
medical
amount
of
employees,
Medical
College,
leaving
the
employee
to
cover
approximately
10
themselves.
It
has
been
rolled
out
to
each
bargaining
unit
with
annual
incentives
of
up
to
two
thousand
dollars
per
employee
and
employee's
savings
on
the
premium
equivalent
of
the
portion
of
the
premium
equivalent
for
which
they
are
responsible
for
the
savings
are
well
over
a
thousand
dollars
per
family.
B
The
numbers
show
that
the
average
employee
comes
out
ahead,
not
behind
even
after
accounting
for
modestly
increase
the
out-of-pocket
costs
for
the
employee.
Due
to
the
savings
divided
to
scratch.
Again,
we
can
each
form
our
own
opinions
here
and
I'm,
not
telling
you
that
there's
one
right
answer,
but
this
is
an
excellent
health
insurance
plan
that
is
far
from
that
data.
B
We've
talked
about
DPW
and
PBA.
Let's
talk
briefly
about
fire.
After
a
year
of
negotiating
sessions
and
two
rounds
of
mediation,
the
city
was
pending
a
final
mediation
session
with
the
fire
engines
for
their
contract
three
business
days
after
last
week's
counseling.
It
is
no
coincidence
that
last
week's
spectacle
came
when
it
did,
despite
the
fact
that
the
city
has
been
bargaining,
the
packages
along
much
the
same
lines
for
years,
ithaca's
average
firefighter
is
paid
eighty
six
thousand
dollars
in
overtime,
whether
top
pay
at
about
135
thousand
dollars.
B
Ifd
had
minimal
vacancies.
This
is
not
a
bargaining
unit
that
has
been
treated
in
the
United
States,
the
city's
history
of
good
faith
and
attractive
contract
negotiations
runs
deep
and
I
could
go
on
longer,
but
I
won't.
There
are
also
confidential
facts
that
can
Better
Health
Council,
understand
the
realities
here,
and
our
team
is
prepared
to
prove
you
an
executive
session.
B
B
A
A
Thank
you.
So
the
vote
is
nine
to
one
for
executive
session.
We
will
move
then
into
executive
session.
Thank
you,
foreign.