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January 10, 2011
4:45 p.m.
Council Chambers
Roll Call: Members: Chairperson Steve Schmitt
David Jones
Harold Getty
Approval of Agenda, as proposed.
1. Department of Safety Services
Ordinance amending the 2007 Code of Ordinances of the City of Waterloo,
Iowa, by adding Chapters 1-6F, Creating Department of Safety Services,
amending Section 2 of Chapter 6, Article A, 1-6A-2, Police Chief; repealing
Subparagraph 1 of Paragraph A of Section 1-6B-1; and enacting in lieu
thereof a new Subparagraph 1 of Paragraph A of Section 1-6B-1,
Composition of Department; amending Section 2 of Chapter 6, Article B, 1-
6B-2, Fire Chief.
ADJOURNMENT
Suzy Schares
City Clerk
CITY OF WATERLOO
Council Communication
City Council Meeting: January 3, 2010
Prepared: December 29, 2010
Dept. Head Signature: Tames Walsh
# of Attachments: 1
SUBJECT: Creation of Department of Safety Services
Submitted by: lames Walsh, City Attorney
Recommended City Council Action: Approve an Ordinance amending the 2007 Code of
Ordinances of the City of Waterloo, Iowa, by adding Chapters 1-6F, Creating Department of
Safety Services, amending Section 2 of Chapter 6, Article A, 1-6A-2, Police Chief; repealing
Subparagraph 1 of Paragraph A of Section 1-6B-1; and enacting in lieu thereof a new
Subparagraph 1 of Paragraph A of Section 1-6B-1, Composition of Department; amending Section
2 of Chapter 6, Article B, 1-6B-2, Fire Chief
Summary Statement
Expenditure Required
Source of Funds
Policy Issue
Alternative
Background Information:
Current organizational chart for police and fire
Fire Chief
Mayor and City
Council
Battalion
Chief
Battalion
Chief
Battalion
Chief
Police
Captain
Police Chief
Police
Captain
Police
Captain
Battalion
Chief
Proposed
Mayor and City
Council
Fire & Police Management Team
Chief of Fire
Services/
Assistant
Director
Director of
Safety Services
Battalion
Chief
Captain of Police
Services/
Assistant
Director
Battalion
Chief
Police
Captain
Police
Captain
Fire & Police Management Team
1) The duties and responsibilities of twelve current Fire Rescue and Police
Department managers will become the duties and responsibilities of
eleven proposed Fire Rescue and Police Department managers.
2) The current Police Chief and the current Fire Chief engage in some of the
same administrative managerial duties for two separate departments, e.g.
attendance at meetings such as the council meeting, representation at
civic events/meetings, etc. The proposed Director of Safety Services will
assume many of these parallel administrative managerial duties and
represent both Fire Rescue and Police.
3) The Director of Safety Services will be responsible for the leadership, long
range planning, visioning and goal setting for both the police and fire
departments. One Assistant Director will provide operational supervision
for the police department and a second Assistant Director will provide
operational supervision for the fire department.
4) The Director of Safety Services and the two Assistant Directors will
comprise the Fire & Police Management Team.
5) For Iowa Code purposes', if the designated Director of Safety Services is
a trained firefighter, he/she will be designated Fire Chief and the Police
Assistant Director assigned to the Management Team will be designated
Police Chief by ordinance. If the designated Director of Safety Services is
a trained law enforcement officer, he/she will be designated Police Chief
and the Fire Assistant Director assigned to the Management Team will be
designated Fire Chief by ordinance.
6) The formal titles of the individuals on the Fire & Police Management Team
will be:
a. Director is trained as a firefighter
i. Director of Safety Services
ii. Chief of Police Services
iii. Assistant Chief of Fire Services
b. Director is trained as a law enforcement officer
i. Director of Safety Services
ii. Captain of Police Services
iii. Chief of Fire Services
' As per Iowa Code 400.15, provides distinct and separate appointing authority for each respective
department; the Police Chief appoints/promotes individuals within the Police Department and the Fire
Chief appoints/promotes individuals within Fire Department.
7) The fiscal savings is estimated to be approximately $100,000.00 per year.
Other fiscal savings may be realized as this program evolves in areas
such as clerical staff, training staff, facilities, etc. One of the duties of the
Fire & Police Management Team will be to explore future, potential
efficiencies within the Fire Rescue and Police Departments.
8) Through this venture, other residual benefits to the community may be
realized because of increased collaboration between police and fire
personnel.
9) The duties/mission of the police department and fire department will
remain distinctly separate; police officers will remain police officers and
fire fighters/paramedics will remain fire fighters/paramedics (No Public
Safety Officers).
Prepared by the Finance Dept 1/4/2011
City of Waterloo
Estimated Savings from Public Safety Director Structure
Fiscal Current New Net
Year Program Structure Savings
FYE2012 534,971 422,181 112,790
FYE2013 574,848 453,532 121,316
FYE2014 621,449 490,210 131,239
FYE2015 663,022 522,832 140,190
FYE2016 690,602 544,314 146,288
Cumulative Totals 3,084,892 2,433,069 651,823
Assumptions:
1. 3% annual pay increases.
2. 10% annual increases in the cost of health insurance.
3. Used estimates provided by plan actuary for future pension contributions, as follows:
Contribution
Rate as a
Percentage
Fiscal of Eamable
Year Compensation
FYE2012 24.76%
FYE2013 29.73%
FYE2014 35.86%
FYE2015 40.03%
FYE2016 40.19%
4. This assumes that fuel, travel, etc. expenses are funded using the current
amounts budgeted in the police and fire activities.
Public Safety Directory Savings.xls Summary
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE 2007 CODE OF
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF WATERLOO, IOWA, BY
ADDING CHAPTERS 1-6F, CREATING DEPARTMENT OF
SAFETY SERVICES; AMENDING SECTION 2 OF
CHAPTER 6, ARTICLE A, 1-6A-2, POLICE CHIEF;
REPEALING SUBPARAGRAPH 1 OF PARAGRAPH A OF
SECTION 1-6B-1; AND ENACTING IN LIEU THEREOF
A NEW SUBPARAGRAPH 1 OF PARAGRAPH A OF
SECTION 1-6B-1, COMPOSITION OF DEPARTMENT;
AMENDING SECTION 2 OF CHAPTER 6, ARTICLE B,
1-6B-2, FIRE CHIEF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WATERLOO,
IOWA:
That Title 1, Administration; Chapter 6, Municipal
Departments, will be amended to add a new Article F entitled
Department of Safety Services.
1-6F-1: DEPARTMENT CREATED:
The Department of Safety Services for the City of
Waterloo is hereby created.
1-6F-2: DEPARTMENTAL POWERS AND DUTIES:
A. It shall be the duty of the Department of Safety
Services to oversee the police department and fire
department of the City of Waterloo.
B. The department shall have the power to perform any duty
currently assigned to the fire department or police
department by this Code of Ordinances, which is not
required by the Iowa Code to be exclusively performed
by the police chief or fire chief.
1-6F-3: DIRECTOR OF SAFETY SERVICES:
A. Appointment: A Director of Safety Services shall be
appointed by the mayor and subject to the approval of
the city council and shall be directly responsible to
the mayor. Such appointment shall be in accordance
with all city policies and procedures regarding
recruitment, selection and appointment of employees.
B. Absence of Director of Safety Services: Whenever the
Director of Safety Services shall be out of the city,
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or unable to act on account of sickness or any other
reason (including those periods of time when the mayor
has not appointed a Director of Safety Services), the
Director of Safety Services or the mayor shall appoint
a designee who shall have and exercise all the powers
and duties of the Director of Safety Services.
C. Management, Supervision and Duties: The Director of
Safety Services shall supervise, direct, and manage the
Department of Safety Services. The Director of Safety
Services shall:
1 (a) Subject to subsection (C) (1) (d) below, appoint
an Assistant Director of Safety Services -Police to
manage the operations of the police department.
Subject to subsection E below, said Assistant
Director may, if so appointed, also be the chief
of police for purposes of Iowa Code section 400.13
and any other provision of the Iowa Code assigning
duties exclusively to the police chief; 2. The
Director of Safety Services shall appoint an
Assistant Director of Safety Services/Fire to
manage the operations of the fire department.
Said Assistant Director may, if so appointed, also
be the fire chief for purposes of Iowa Code 400.13
and any other Iowa Code provisions assigning
duties exclusively to the fire chief.
(b) Subject to subsection (C)(1)(d) below, appoint
an Assistant Director of Safety Services -Fire to
manage the operations of the fire department.
Subject to subsection E below, said Assistant
Director may, if so appointed, also be the fire
chief for purposes of Iowa Code section 400.13 and
any other provision of the Iowa Code assigning
duties exclusively to the fire chief;
(c) In making selections for the Assistant
Director positions described above, the Director
of Safety Services must choose candidates from the
civil service eligible lists as required by Iowa
Code section 400.13;
(d) In the event that the Director of Safety
Services is also appointed police chief or fire
chief pursuant to subsection E below, the Director
of Safety Services shall not be required to
appoint an Assistant Director of the department
for which he or she serves as chief. If the
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Page 3
Director does choose to appoint an Assistant
Director, then the Director shall be the only
chief in that department and the Assistant
Director of such department shall not be appointed
as chief nor shall his or her duties include the
duties of chief, except as such duties may
lawfully be delegated by order of the Director of
Safety Services.
2. Supervise and direct the activities and operations
of the Assistant Director of Safety
Services/Police and the Assistant Director of
Safety Services/Fire.
3. Provided the Director of Safety Services is also
appointed either police chief or fire chief
pursuant to subsection 6-E, take any action or
perform any duty currently assigned that position
under this Code of Ordinances and the Code of
Iowa.
D. Limitation on Authority. The Director of Safety
Services, if not serving as chief of a department,
shall have no authority to take any action exclusively
delegated by the Iowa Code to the positions of police
chief or fire chief or reassign any such duties to the
position of Director of Safety Services. Such actions
include, but are not limited to, the duties established
by subsection 1-6A-3 to the extent they are required by
chapter 80D of the Iowa Code, subsection 4-3C-4 to the
extent they are required by Iowa Code section 455B.386,
and subsection 1-6B-2 to the extent they are required
by Iowa Code sections 100.2, 102.2, and 102.3.
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Page 4
E. Appointment of Director to Chief Position. In lieu of
the Director of Safety Services appointing the
Assistant Directors of Safety Services as either police
chief or fire chief, the mayor, with approval of the
city council, may appoint the Director of Safety
Services to the office of police chief or fire chief at
the same time that he or she holds the position of
Director of Safety Services, provided the individual is
otherwise qualified to hold such office under the Iowa
Code, but the Director of Safety Services may not be
both police chief and fire chief at the same time.
F. Qualifications. The Director of Safety Services must
be appointed from the Chief's civil service eligible
lists provided for in Iowa Code section 400.13.
That Ordinance 1-6A-2 which establishes the position of
police chief shall have the first sentence stricken in its
entirety and replaced with the following language: "The chief of
the police department shall be either the Director of Safety
Services or the Assistant Director of Safety Services -Police, in
either case appointed pursuant to section 1-6F-3 of this Code of
Ordinances."
That Ordinance 1-6B-1 which establishes the fire department
shall have section (A)(1) stricken and new language included
which reads as follows: "One chief, who shall be either the
Director of Safety Services or the Assistant Director of Safety
Services -Fire, in either case as appointed pursuant to section 1-
6F-3."
That Ordinance 1-6B-2 (A) which describes the appointment of
the fire chief shall have the first sentence stricken and
replaced with the following language: "The fire chief shall be
the Director of Safety Services or the Assistant Director of
Safety Services -Fire, in either case appointed pursuant to
section 1-6F-3 of this Code of Ordinances."
That Ordinance 1-6B-2(B) (11) shall be revised to include the
following: "From time to time make a report to the Director of
Safety Services and the city council of such property as may be
needed."
INTRODUCED:
PASSED 1ST CONSIDERATION:
PASSED 2ND CONSIDERATION:
PASSED 3RD CONSIDERATION:
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the
January 3, 2011
January 3, 2011
January 3, 2011
January 3, 2011
City Council of the City of
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Waterloo, Iowa, on the 3rd day of January, 2011, and approved by
the Mayor on the 3rd day of January, 2011.
ATTEST:
Suzy Schares, CMC
City Clerk
Ernest G. Clark, Mayor
CERTIFICATE
I, Suzy Schares, City Clerk of the City of Waterloo, Iowa,
do hereby certify that the preceding is a true and complete copy
of Ordinance No. , as passed and adopted by the Council of
the City of Waterloo, Iowa, on the 3rd day of January, 2011.
Witness my hand and seal of office this 3rd day of January,
2011.
SEAL Suzy Schares, CMC
City Clerk