We'll all meet in Jackie's

car.

But yeah, I know.

So I uh just am very impressed with my nice

good

evening, everybody.

Welcome to the White House City Council committee meetings for Tuesday, April 28th, 2026.

Um, before we get into

any

legislation, I just want to remind everybody on council as well as the good folks here.

Next Tuesday, we will not be meeting because it's election day, and council rule state that we will have it the following day, which will be Wednesday the 6th.

So please work your calendar, so there is to pull off to an empty parking lot.

And wonder what's going on.

So for anybody watching at home, please be aware of that as well.

Um thank you.

Um there are three pieces of draft legislation on the agenda.

Uh, under committee of the whole legislation, we have draft one ordinance 35 2026, authorized and approving an amendment to the codified orders of the City Hill Whitehall was 61.

Table of authorized personnel for the fiscal year 2026 and declaring an emergency.

This was requested by Miss Russell, and so I will turn it to her if you would like to discuss this.

Now we can open for questions.

Yes, um, I if it's okay, I think that we'd like to talk about 35 and 36 together.

Sure.

Um so this legislation came forward um and was voted on last week in my absence.

Um something that was made clear to me is that maybe there were some outstanding questions or concerns that didn't get fully addressed.

Um I heard about the job description, which I emailed to all of you.

Hopefully, everybody received that.

Um, you know, the job description was done well in advance.

We started doing edits in early February of that, and so um I wanted to make sure that you all had that so you could evaluate the position.

Um, and and frankly, I'm sorry it wasn't included in the first package.

I'm still learning how all things are functioning here and missed that it wasn't included early on, um, and would have shared that all with you because there's nothing to hide in the in the job description, right?

Um it's all public knowledge and public positions, and so all of that should be uh well baked.

And so I think for me, um what I would like to do is open up for full dialogue, questions, comments, concerns, feedback, um, because I think that there may be some either confusion or maybe there's just some items that we could better clarify through conversation rather than me giving a formal presentation um in regards to that position.

So I would turn it over to counsel for any questions that they may have.

So with that, I will open the floor.

I'm curious, was it the I hadn't heard um request for the job description um until I saw the email come through.

So I don't know if it was a matter of not having that or maybe not fully understanding um what we were voting on or what the implications were if it didn't go through.

Uh

Director Rollins, in my absence, I believe, just asked frankly some of the council members, you know, what would have helped, why was there a no?

What you know, what's left outstanding that you didn't get an answer on, and um the I think the resounding answer was there's no job description, so I just like what am I voting on when I'm discussing a new position without a job description?

So that's how we ended up in the conversation of that job description.

Yeah, sorry, and I uh spoke after the after the meeting.

That was one of the things we didn't uh talk long.

I guess another one of my questions is uh why first reading last time at the second reading.

Uh like you said, this was thought about last year.

Uh HR description was back in February, and then we come up all of a sudden this is an emergency and has to be passed right away without a brand new position.

Uh it just don't make sense to me to wait the last minute to present this to council when you administration's been aware of it for months.

Absolutely.

And then that's why you get the no votes in the conversations.

Uh I just have issues with that.

It's gone on for a long time, and it just continues, and I see no reason why anything should be a first or second reading that that you've been prepared for for months.

It's personally irritating to me.

Certainly.

And disrespectful as far as I'm concerned.

Yeah, that's what I was gonna talk about.

You got an email.

Um I I also I also uh would like to know where you got the pay scale for a brand new position, and for somebody that has no experience in that other than the internship, which included part of that position, and I think that that uh pay scale is pretty high.

So where where was that established from?

If I can real quick, we'll let Ms.

Russell do the intern question, but as for why it was on for a first reading, because I I HR had informed me this part of that legislation was also Auditor Alexander's position description, and that person is already here and doing the job, it was a job change and pay change, and so it needed to go quick because the person's already in that position and and doing that role, um, and so that needed to go.

Um and so that needed to go.