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File #: 41814    Version: 1 Name: Moving EAP from Human Resources to the Mayor's office
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 2/15/2016 In control: COMMON COUNCIL ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITTEE (ended 4/2017)
On agenda: 3/15/2016 Final action: 3/15/2016
Enactment date: 3/26/2016 Enactment #: ORD-16-00035
Title: Amending Section 3.03, repealing and recreating Section 3.04, and amending Section 3.13 of the Madison General Ordinances to move the Employee Assistance Office from the Human Resources Department to the Mayor’s Office and revise the responsibilities of the Human Resources Department.
Sponsors: Paul R. Soglin
Fiscal Note
Transitioning EAP to a standalone agency is reflected in the 2016 Adopted Budget. Total budget is $337,144.
Title
Amending Section 3.03, repealing and recreating Section 3.04, and amending Section 3.13 of the Madison General Ordinances to move the Employee Assistance Office from the Human Resources Department to the Mayor’s Office and revise the responsibilities of the Human Resources Department.
Body
DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: This ordinance moves the Employee Assistance Office from the supervision of the Human Resources Department to the Mayor’s Office and updates the responsibilities of the Human Resources Department to include the Committee on Employee Relations, the employee associations and the Employee Development and Organizational Effectiveness Unit.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
1. Section 3.03 entitled “Mayor” of the Madison General Ordinances is amended to read as follows:
“3.03 MAYOR.
(1) The Mayor shall be elected on each odd numbered year for a term of two (2) years. Beginning with the 1991 Spring Election, the Mayor shall be elected every other odd numbered year for a term of four (4) years. The Mayor shall devote her/his entire time to the duties of the office of Mayor. The Mayor shall have the general supervision of all City officers and heads of departments in the performance of their official duties.
This is a charter ordinance and shall be effective upon sixty (60) days from passage and publication subject, however, to the referendum procedures of Section 66.0101(5), Wisconsin Statutes. ED. NOTE: Sec. 3.03(1) was repealed and recreated as a Charter Ordinance and amended to provide for four-year mayoral term pursuant to adoption by the electorate at the 1987 Spring Election of Res. No. 43,063, File No. 3885-86, amending Charter Ord. 39.
(2) The Mayor shall have the veto power as to all acts of the Council, ex...

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