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• Minutes - Regular Meeting, March 4, 1981, Page 6 passes, the policemen are going to get $10.00 a month and the rest of our force will get $3.00 a month, and that is a difference. And that's what I mean when I say the Legislature sets policy. True, the City will still administer that policy, but the State Legislature, not by guidance but by mandate of .State Law, establishes the policy that we'll be administering for La Porte police personnel. Jacobs: O.K., but by the same token there is another dif- ference, the certification pay. You have got em- ployees in the barn drawing certification pay and police officers are not drawing certification pay. Cline: You're going to be. That's already been decided by this Council. Jacobs: Yes, back some months ago we were advised it was supposed to be going forth with when Detective Butchee was President, and it has since been tabled due to the fact of us going for State Civil Service. . Simons: Sergeant Jacobs, I would like to check on that be- cause I met with Detective Butchee and I promised him that would not be tabled and it has been brought back up to this Council twice since I met with Detective Butchee. Jacobs: O.K. Well, this is new to me. I did not know that. The only thing I knew was that-- Simons: Our problem is the communication between the Police Department and the Council. Jacobs: O.K., Number 3 - Of the 122 Texas cities over 10,000 population, only 52 are governed by State Civil Service. Many of the employee organizations of the 52 communities governed. by the Act are associa- ted with union groups that lobby the Legislature for collective bargaining and unionization of public service employees. Ts not the City of La Porte a member of TML, which is one of the largest lobbying groups in the State? The way this is written up is kind of like the Council is going to take the posi- tion of against any kind of lobby, the way we inter- pret it from our State Association that we are members of . • Simons: Sergeant Jacobs, may I check just one second on that? TML is for all the cities in all the State of Texas, and every department in the City is included in TML; Police Department, Fire Department, Library, every department in it. A play on words could be turned around.