City looks to tweak pool staffing structure

MARION – Under a proposed ordinance, the city aquatic center’s pool manager would be paid additional money for work performed before the pool opens for summer.

The municipal services, parks and recreation committee sent two proposed laws on to full council to tweak pool staffing and compensation.

The pool manager would make $12 an hour for any preseason membership sales, advertising, fundraising, recruiting and marketing work, and then make $8,500 from May 1 to Sept. 12, 2015. There would be no concessions manager as there was in 2014.

Front gate and concession stand attendants would get a 15-cent raise, up to $8.10 an hour, to reflect minimum wage changes. Seasonal lifeguards get a 10-cent raise, up to $9.30 an hour. Head lifeguards would get a 54-cent raise, up to $10.60 an hour.

Legislation, codes and regulations committee members, who are scheduled to meet at 6:45 p.m., discussed an amended ordinance applying to the distribution of commercial handbills.

Under the ordinance, it would be illegal for distributors to toss a Hometown Advertiser or a Shopper’s Compass to a residence where there already are two handbills sitting outside — this would prevent these advertisements from piling up on vacant properties.

If residents choose, they could send a certified letter to the handbill distributors asking them not to deliver that publication to their address at all. The letter would be good for seven years after the distributor receives it.

Residents would have to submit a complaint to the law director if the advertising company violates this ordinance. The city would punish the publisher, and not the person throwing the advertisement.

This ordinance also directs these handbill distributors to toss their publications within 10 feet of the front door, not on the driveway or in the yard.

The finance committee forwarded ordinances that would authorize purchase of a dump body with plow from Henderson Products Inc. and a chassis from International, to use in part as a snowplow. The panel also forwarded an ordinance to purchase an aerial bucket truck from Utility Truck Equipment Inc. for electrical work; this replaces a 1983 model.

Kurz said these purchases were in his 2015 budget.

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