Q&A
Council Member Carr's follow-up on rehiring terminated employees
0:44:40
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Council Member David M. Carr expresses appreciation for Henry Garrido's position and elaborates on the challenges and potential solutions for rehiring terminated employees. He emphasizes the importance of finding ways to overcome legal obstacles.
- Carr acknowledges the complexity of pension-related issues for some terminated employees
- He cites the example of certificated judges who were allowed to return through legislative action
- Carr stresses the importance of equity for long-serving city employees and advocates for eliminating legal roadblocks to their reinstatement
David M. Carr
0:44:40
Well, thank you.
0:44:40
I appreciate that position very much.
0:44:42
And I and I think, yes, the pension piece is complicated for a segment of these individuals.
0:44:48
And I think what's instructive is, the example of judges, right, who certificated judges were forced to leave the bench.
0:44:56
Some, took, their pensions, and the legislature passed legislation to basically make that okay.
0:45:03
So I understand we would need to have their cooperation in this on that front.
0:45:07
But I I think if there's a will, there's a way.
0:45:09
Yeah.
0:45:09
And if we understand that there's a matter of equity, that these are people who gave meaningful service to the city for many years, and but for this, would still be serving the city, and performing well, and and I think we should do everything we can to eliminate, you know, legal roadblocks to restoring them to city service.
0:45:26
Yeah.
Henry Garrido
0:45:26
I agree.
