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City of Paris Council Benefits Subcommittee <br />December 9, 2003 <br />Page 8 <br />Mr. Anderson said that any sick leave has to be medically justified. The doctor <br />has to say what the medical reason is for when a person needs to be off work. <br />Mr. Anderson said that normally on pregnancy six weeks is all they are going to <br />get unless there are complications. Mr. Anderson said if they have the time <br />accumulated, they will be paid. Chairman Guest said then it makes FMLA a <br />moot point, no one is using it. Mr. Anderson said the danger the city runs into <br />with FMLA is if they are out of time and don't overlap it, they can tie up that slot <br />for another 12 weeks or whatever it is so that you can't fill the position. <br />At 11:06 A.M. Chairman Guest called for a short break. <br />The meeting was reconvened at 11:16 A. M. <br />Terry Townsend, Director of Public Works, said they had been talking about <br />several issues and he knew that solid waste collector and the comparison <br />including the Police Chief and some of the ones in this room and position that <br />they may hold, but one of the bigger factors of the whole thing is that he has 86 <br />employees. Mr. Townsend said that 60 of those people are divided as M1 and <br />M2's who make $898.00 biweekly. They have families and they take $110.00 out <br />of that just for their insurance, and when everything is taken from their pay, they <br />probably take home $500.00 or $600.00. Mr. Townsend said that the people in <br />this room have been successful and probably spend more than that in gasoline a <br />month. These people live on that. Mr. Townsend said that the city has some <br />very good benefits, but if we did not have those benefits, the city could not keep <br />those employees. <br />Councilmen Bell said that he was comparing himself to the upper management <br />after he pays for medical insurance, and he does not have a car allowance. <br />Mr. Bell said that he has looked at the City of Paris so many times, Tommy <br />brings things from time to time that compares things from one city to another, <br />and he felt that is the way they are going to have to do this is by comparing these <br />things. When he looked at some of the jobs and the pay scale the benefits <br />compared to what people are doing within the City of Paris. In fact, these are <br />