RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION TO CLARIFY AND FURTHER DEFINE CERTAIN CLASSIFICATIONS OF CITY EMPLOYEES, RETIRED ELECTED OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES, AND

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1 STATE OF GEORGIA CITY OF COLLEGE PARK RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION TO CLARIFY AND FURTHER DEFINE CERTAIN CLASSIFICATIONS OF CITY EMPLOYEES, RETIRED ELECTED OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES, AND SURVIVING SPOUSES WHO LIVE WITHIN THE MUNICIPAL LIMITS OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE PARK, AND WHO ARE ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE CITY UTILITY CREDITS; TO REPEAL CONFLICTING ORDINANCES; TO PROVIDE AN EFFECTIVE DATE AND TERM; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. WHEREAS, The Mayor and Council of College Park finds the neighborhoods in the City of College Park are under significant pressures as a result of airport noise, crime and increasingly transient population; and WHEREAS, The Mayor and Council of College Park finds the reduction in the City s population as a result of the expansion of the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to be an ongoing and increasing concern; and WHEREAS, The Mayor and Council of College Park finds that encouraging families to live in and return to the City of College Park is a factor in creating safe, stable, and desirable neighborhoods in the City of College Park; and WHEREAS, The Mayor and Council of College Park finds that employment stability is a positive factor in creating safe, stable and desirable neighborhoods in the City of College Park; and WHEREAS, The Mayor and Council of College Park finds that increased civic pride and interest in the City of College Park is a positive factor in creating safe, stable and desirable

2 neighborhoods in the City of College Park, and that City employees who live within the City of College Park contribute to such neighborhoods through their employment stability, increased civic pride, and interest in the City of College Park; and WHEREAS, The Mayor and Council of College Park finds that the City s interests in improving employee performance and reducing absenteeism are served by encouraging City employees to live in the City; and WHEREAS, The Mayor and Council of College Park finds that public safety and public works employees who live within the City of College Park are able to respond to call back in emergency situations more quickly than City employees who live outside the City of College Park; and WHEREAS, The Mayor and Council of College Park finds that the City s interests are served by encouraging City employees to live within the City of College Park; WHEREAS, The Mayor and Council of College Park desires to show consideration to the retired City employees and the retired elected City officials who live within the City of College Park; WHEREAS, to address the aforementioned, on June 4, 2018, The Mayor and Council of College Park passed Resolution to establish a credit for City utilities to be provided to certain City employees, retired City elected officials, and surviving spouses; and WHERES, The Mayor and Council wish to further clarify and define the classification of persons eligible for the credit to City utilities prescribed by Resolution NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, the City will apply a utility credit to (1) regular fulltime City employees, (2) regular part-time City employees, (3) retired City employees, (4) retired elected officials, (5) survivor spouses of retired employees and (6) survivor spouses of retired elected officials, who were continuously living in the City at the time of retirement, and who continuously live within the City, without a break in residency, to be applied toward the monthly City generated utility bills. Regular part-time City employees will receive a credit not-to-exceed

3 twelve hundred dollars and no cents ($1,200) annually. All regular full-time employees, elected officials, retirees and survivor spouses will receive a credit not-to-exceed twenty four hundred dollars and no cents ($2,400) annually. Such credit shall be subject to the following restrictions and limitations: 1. Such credit shall be granted monthly during each regular calendar year, so long as the subject receiving such credit continues to qualify for such credit. 2. To qualify for such credit the employee/retiree/survivor spouse shall be required to prove residency within the City through a validly signed lease or proof of ownership of the employee s/retiree s residence; such proof must be in the name of the employee/retiree and/or the employee s/retiree s spouse only. 3. The employee/retiree/survivor spouse shall be required to have lived within the City of College Park for at least one full month before qualifying for such credit. 4. Such credit shall be applied against City provided utility usage only; such credit shall not be used to establish deposits or clear arrearages incurred by the employee/retiree/survivor spouse notwithstanding the credit. The employee/retiree/survivor spouse is subject to disconnection of utility services on city generated utility bills in the event of non-payment of remaining balances, if any. Employees/retirees/survivor spouses who are delinquent on utility payments from the previous fiscal year have until July 31 st of the current benefit year to satisfy outstanding balances. Otherwise, they are subject to loss of eligibility for the utility credit benefit for a twelve-month period. 5. Employees/retiree/survivor spouse must keep their account current in order to continue to be eligible for the utility credit. Any employee/retiree/survivor spouse whose account is more than 30 days past due is subject to disconnection of services, forfeiture of utility credit or payroll deduction as deemed appropriate by city administration. By accepting the credit, all beneficiaries consent to the City withholding from any salary due unpaid utility balance. 6. Such credit has no cash value and is not convertible to cash or equivalent. 7. Elected officials/employees/retirees/survivor spouses may accumulate unused credits on their monthly utility bills that are less than $200 per month within the twelve-month period beginning July 1, 2018 and ending June 30, Any unused accumulated credit may be applied to subsequent monthly utility bills. Carry-over into the next fiscal year of any unused accumulated utility credit is not allowed. Unused credit can also be reimbursed to the employee/retiree/survivor spouse for third party billing for water, sewer and trash services provided by the City. All accumulated utility credit amounts terminate at the end of the current fiscal year and are non-refundable upon separation of employment with the City or a loss of eligibility for the utility credit benefit occurs. 8. An elected official shall be defined as any resident of the City of College Park elected to the position(s) of mayor or member of the City Council, or who is currently serving as mayor or councilperson as of the date of this resolution, or who is appointed to fill an unexpired term of those offices.

4 A regular full-time employee shall be defined as an employee who has been employed by the City for an indefinite period of time to work forty (40) hours per week or eighty (80) hours per bi-weekly pay period and all full-time contract employees (e.g., City Manager, department heads), and who currently resides within the City limits. 10. A regular part-time employee shall be defined as an employee who has been employed by the City for an indefinite period of time to work less than forty (40) hours per week and greater than twenty (20) hours per work week, and who currently resides within the City limits. 11. A retired City employee shall be defined as a former City employee, who is no longer employed with the City; who is currently vested in the City s retirement program, who are receiving benefits from the City s retirement program, and who currently reside within the City limits. 12. A retired elected official shall be defined as a former elected official of the City who no longer holds any City elected office, who held any City elected office for a time period of no less than five continuous (5) years, and who currently resides within the City limits. 13. A survivor spouse of a retired employee shall be defined as the spouse of an retired employee as defined in paragraph 10 above, who is surviving after the death of the retired employee, who was legally married under the laws of the State of Georgia or other state to the retired employee at the time of the retired employee s death, and who currently resides within in the City limits. 14. A survivor spouse of a retired elected official shall be defined as the spouse of a retired elected official as defined in paragraph 12 above, who is surviving after the death of the retired elected official, who was legally married under the laws of the State of Georgia or other state to the retired elected official at the time of the retired elected official s death, and who currently resides within in the City limits. 15. All regular full-time employees, retirees, and survivor spouses shall be responsible for paying any portion of the utility bill that exceeds $2,400 annually on City generated utility bills. 16. All regular part-time employees shall be responsible for paying any portion of the utility bill that exceeds $1,200 annually on City generated utility bills. SO RESOLVED THIS DAY OF JANUARY, MAYOR AND COUNCIL CITY OF COLLEGE PARK

5 ATTEST: Melissa Brooks, City Clerk Jack P. Longino, Mayor