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April 27, 2004 Purpose and Need: · Currently, the Police Auxiliary Officers and Chaplains are not covered under Worker's Compensation for services they provide to the City of Portsmouth as volunteers. · This resolution will provide a designation of Police Auxiliary Officers and Chaplains as employees for the purposes of Worker's Compensation only. · Currently, the Auxiliary Sheriff's Deputies are deemed employees of the City for Worker's Compensation purposes only as adopted by the Council of the City of Portsmouth at a meeting held on September 25, 1990. Financial Impact: · The financial impact cannot be determined at this time. This will depend on any future claims for injuries sustained while providing services in an official capacity for the City. Motion by Mr. Pitts, and seconded by Mr. Whitehurst, to adopt the following resolution, and was adopted by the following vote: "A RESOLUTION ACKNOWLEDGING POLICE CHAPLAINS AND AUXILIARY OFFICERS AS CITY EMPLOYEES FOR PURPOSES OF WORKER'S COMPENSATION BENEFITS COVERAGE. WHEREAS, police chaplains and police auxiliary officers, through their voluntary unpaid service, supplement greatly the law enforcement efforts of the City of Portsmouth; and WHEREAS, police chaplains and police auxiliary officers have heretofore not been designated as city employees for the purpose of worker's compensation coverage; and WHEREAS, Section 65.2-102 of the Code of Virginia (1950), as amended, provides for the designation of such individuals as city employees solely for the purpose of such coverage; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that such designation solely for the purpose of worker's compensation benefits coverage will benefit those individuals who serve as police chaplains and auxiliary police officers and may also encourage other individuals to volunteer their services to the City. NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia that the City's appreciation for the invaluable services of the police chaplains and the auxiliary police officers is hereby expressed, and that all persons serving in such capacities are hereby designated city employees solely for the purpose of coverage under the worker's compensation provisions of state law as permitted under Va. Code section 65.2-102." Ayes: Benn, Griffin, Moody, Pitts, Whitehurst, Holley Nays: None 04 - 160 - Adoption of a resolution requesting that the United States Congress restore full funding to the Army Corps of Engineers for the operation and maintenance of the Great Dismal Swamp. Recommendation: · Adoption of a resolution requesting that the United States Congress restore full funding to the Army Corps of Engineers for the operation and maintenance of the Great Dismal Swamp Canal.