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Board of County Commissioners Meeting Minutes - Draft September 13, 2019 1. CALL TO ORDER ROLL CALL Present: 5- Chairman Bob Solari Vice Chairman Susan Adams Commissioner Joseph Flescher Commissioner Peter O'Bryan Commissioner Tim Zorc 2.A. A MOMENT OF SILENT REFLECTION FOR FIRST RESPONDERS 2.B. INVOCATION Jeffrey R. Smith,Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller 3. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Chairman Bob Solari 4. BRIEF INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW OF PROCESS Chairman Solari announced the Collective Bargaining Impasse Hearing between the Indian River County Sheriffs Office(Sheriffs Office)and the Indian River County Deputies'Association, I.U.P.A., Local 6080 (Union) and turned the meeting over to County Attorney Dylan Reingold. County Attorney Dylan Reingold County Attorney Dylan Reingold stated that the Sheriffs Office and the Union were in their third year of negotiating the annual wage reopener in the Collective Bargaining Agreement. He stated that the Union declared an Impasse and a Special Magistrate was appointed to conduct a hearing and issue a recommendation to resolve the impasse issue. He stated that a hearing was conducted on April 5, 2019 and the Special Magistrate issued a recommendation that the Union accepted and the Sheriffs Office rejected. Attorney Reingold explained that under Florida Law,the legislative body is required to conduct a public hearing at which the parties explain their positions with respect to the decision by the Special Magistrate on only the articles at impasse:Article 17: Wages. He outlined the proposed agenda format and procedures for the hearing adding that law enforcement personnel were exempt from the requirement to provide an address;thus, the Chairman would not be requiring that information from any speaker. County Attorney Reingold announced that this was a Quasi-Judicial Hearing Indian River County Florida Page 1