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City Council Meeting Minutes June 6, 2017 Page 8 of 20 Mayor Muckle moved the City acquire the cabins with a plan to relocate one to highway 42 and one to John Breaux Park, increase the contingency to 30%, and limit the current scope of work to acquisition, moving them to a new location, and rehabilitation. Councilmember Leh seconded Councilmember Keany made a friendly amendment to consider the city -owned parcel in the 500 block of Main Street as a location for one Councilmember Maloney agreed he didn't want to commit to locations yet, he would like some flexibility on the final locations. Mayor Muckle agreed Vote: Motion carned by unanimous roll call vote (summary: Yes = 7) ORDINANCE NO. 1738, SERIES 2017 — AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTERS 2.08 AND 2.12 OF THE LOUISVILLE MUNICIPAL CODE TO INCLUDE THE BENEFITS THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCILMEMBERS SHALL RECEIVE IN ADDITION TO THEIR SALARIES — 2nd READING — PUBLIC HEARING — (advertised Daily Camera 05/21/17) Mayor Muckle opened public hearing City Manager Fleming stated the City Council requested a review and comparison of how the Mayor's and City Councilor's current salaries and benefits compare with the same labor market cities we use for all city positions as part of the annual salary survey process This survey showed the Council is significantly underpaid compared to other jurisdictions Based on the analysis, companson, and feedback from Council an Ordinance was prepared for consideration to increase the Mayor's and Councilmembers salaries He added this ordinance will not increase the salanes of the current City Council but will be in effect for members elected in November of 2017 and after. John Leary, 1116 Lafarge Avenue, stated people do not run for Council for the salary, but it is possible people don't run because of the low salary. It is likely we are eliminating some people from running who might need child care, etc. Some say it is too much at once, but the cost is worth it. It is not too much money compared to our budget and the pnonty of having good elected officials. Mayor Muckle noted he thinks this is too much of an increase; he supports doubling the salaries rather than tripling them with a mechanism to review this again in two years to smooth the change Councilmember Maloney stated the current salaries are simply arbitrary and not based on surveys. He would like to see Council salaries done similarly to staff salaries; by salary survey with other communities so that it is not arbitrary