Greensburg officials plan to give some of the city's non-uniformed, non-union workers the opportunity to live outside the city - but for a price.
Council is expected to adopt an ordinance Monday that will eliminate residency requirements for about two dozen full-time employees with at least five years of service. Council members voiced no opposition when the ordinance was introduced in January.
Those employees, primarily secretaries and clerks, who want to move outside the city borders must live within 10 air miles of the Westmoreland County Courthouse on North Main Street.
However, any eligible employee who chooses to move outside the city will forfeit $1,000 of after-tax income, city Administrator Thomas Sphon said.
Sphon said that under the ordinance, he and the city's other top administrators must continue to live within the city limits. That supervisory list includes Planning Director Barbara Ciampini, Public Works Director Rick Hoyle, Recreation Department Director Frank Lehman, Fiscal Director Mary Perez, Code Enforcement Officer Les Harvey, Mt. Odin Greenskeeper Tom Dell, police Chief Richard Baric and police Capt. George Seranko.
The non-union, non-uniformed employees are the last group of city workers to be removed from the residency requirement. Veteran city police officers represented by the Fraternal Order of Police and Street Department workers represented by Teamsters Local 30 of Jeannette won the right to live outside the city in contracts they approved last year.
