BY ALEX REECE
Council members to tour arts venues Three City Council members will tour multiple performing arts complexes and venues this fall as officials work to bring Frisco residents a performing arts complex of their own. The details Frisco City Council members Tammy Meinershagen, John Keating and Mayor Jeff Cheney volunteered to join a three-member ad hoc committee to tour performing arts complexes during an Oct. 3 meeting. The tours in Florida and North Carolina should help city officials see what perform- ing arts complexes could work for Frisco, according to a meeting presentation. The committee’s findings will be pre- sented at a January work session meeting.
Frisco council verifies civil service, collective bargaining for ballot Frisco residents will see two Frisco Fire Depart- ment items on the May ballot. Frisco City Council members certified two Frisco Fire Fighter Association petitions during an Oct. 17 meeting. The petitions met the signature require- ments to put civil service and collective bargaining on the general election ballot. Some context Council’s acceptance of the petitions was the most recent action in an effort to bring civil service and collective bargaining to Frisco’s Fire Department. Association members began collecting sig- natures July 11 before submitting the two peti- tions—with an estimated count of more than 5,000 signatures combined—to the city Aug. 21.
Understanding the items If approved, the items on the ballot would change the structure of the Frisco Fire Department. • Civil service is a system with a three-citizen commission to assess the hiring, firing and promotion of firefighters. • Collective bargaining is a system allowing the fire department to become its own bargaining agents when it comes to agreements on wages, staff numbers and recruitment.
SOURCE: TEXAS STATE LAW LIBRARY/COMMUNITY IMPACT
It took seven staff members from the city secretary’s office and one volunteer approximately 519 hours to verify all of the signatures. The big picture The resolutions were adopted because of council’s belief in transparency and residents’ legal right to call for a vote on their issues, Mayor Jeff Cheney said. “Council, by taking an affirmative position on these items, does not mean that we support the items,” Cheney said.
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