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Ordinances committee asks legislative council to draft parental paid-leave ordinance after presentation on costs and options
Summary
After a presentation from Director Jose Gouveia about estimated costs and voluntary-benefit options, the ordinances committee voted to ask legislative counsel to draft an ordinance providing paid parental leave (6 weeks at full pay plus 6 weeks at 75% pay, usable within the first year) for city employees and to return the draft for committee and a
The Committee on Ordinances voted Sept. 29, 2025, to ask the city's legislative counsel to draft a parental paid-leave ordinance after receiving updated cost estimates and benefits information from Director Jose Gouveia.
Director Gouveia presented utilization figures and cost estimates to the committee. He told members that if every full-time employee used one week of paid leave the cost would be roughly $1.4 million; doubling that to two weeks would roughly double the cost. Using actual recent utilization rates for parental leaves, Gouveia estimated a focused parental-leave benefit would cost substantially less: he cited a range of roughly $360,000 to $450,000 for a parental-leave program sized to recent use, and he said the city has recorded about eight…
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