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<br /> the employees under their supervision. <br /> PART 7. The City Charter also provides for the City Manager to propose and the <br /> City Council to consider and adopt annual budgets which allocate the City's limited <br /> resources on a City-wide basis. <br /> PART 8. The City Council has undertaken a series of initiatives to improve the <br /> working conditions of City police officers, including the new San Marcos Police Department <br /> Headquarters and training facilities. <br /> PART 9. The City Council has strongly supported the San Marcos Police <br /> Department by expanding staffing levels for commissioned officers by 46% since 1988, and <br /> has restructured and increased pay schedules to be competitive with other Texas cities. <br /> PART 10. The City Council, having considered the proposal for collective <br /> bargaining for City police officers, rejects collective bargaining as unnecessary. <br /> PART 11. The City Council believes that collective bargaining would lead to <br /> needless expense, higher taxes, waste and inefficiency, increased bureaucracy, lax <br /> discipline, and disruption of supervisory responsibilities and chain of command, all of which <br /> would detract from the basic objectives of the San Marcos Police Department to prevent <br /> crime and to protect and serve the citizens of San Marcos. <br /> PART 12. The City Council encourages all citizens of the City of San Marcos to <br /> educate themselves, become fully informed as to the repercussions of adoption of <br /> collective bargaining for police officers, and vote. <br /> PART 13. That this Resolution is in full force and effect immediately from and after <br /> its passage. <br /> Adopted this 27th day of October, 1997 fs~ <(. ~ <br /> Billy G. Moore <br /> Mayor <br /> Att~st: " / ) <br /> N. Í/YW ~ f) r B"1IltW- <br /> ì/ / v <br /> Janis K. Womack <br /> City Secretary <br />