Special City Commission Meeting Tonight at 6 p.m. "Emergency Ordinance!"

Remember back in September, the night the City Commission had to adopt the budget by law, there was an unsettled issue about Police pensions.  The Commission went ahead and passed the budget by a 4-1 vote, Maxwell dissenting, with the intent of the City Manager to go back and work out the details with the union.  Well, the chickens come home to roost tonight when the City will likely have to swallow a $1.6 million dollar hit to the current fiscal year budget.  The "emergency" is that the pension changes must go into effect December 1 - tomorrow.

What sort of negotiating position did the city think it would have with the delay?  Now, again some more, at the eleventh hour, the Commission has to make this final.  Commissioners Maxwell and Mulvehill are both in Colorado at the National League of Cities conference.  Ring, ring?