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City Council Meeting: September 13, 2011
Agenda Item: 31
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Donna C. Peter, Director of Human Resources
Subject: Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Execute a Memorandum of
Understanding with the Municipal Employees Association
Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt the attached Resolution authorizing the
City Manager to execute a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Municipal
Employees Association.
Executive Summary
The current Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Municipal Employees
Association (MEA) expired on June 30, 2011. Per the terms and conditions of that
MOU, negotiations with MEA for a successor MOU commenced and resulted in a new
two-year agreement that has been ratified by the membership of MEA. The total cost of
of the negotiated changes contained in this MOU is $1,533,812 for Fiscal Year 2011-
2012 and is $2,561,339 for Fiscal Year 2012-2013. Funds are included in the Adopted
FY2011-2013 Budget.
Discussion
This MOU with MEA is a two-year agreement from July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2013.
The agreement provides a 2.0% cost of living salary adjustment for FY2011-2012 and a
3.0% cost of living salary adjustment for FY2012-2013. In addition to some other minor
economic and non-economic changes, the agreement includes adjustments to salary
continuation for Workers' Compensation leave, reducing payments from 100% for the
first sixty days to 100% for the first thirty days and 75% for the next thirty days.
Although difficult to quantify, it is anticipated this will have a positive impact on reducing
costs in this area. Negotiations with MEA also resulted in changes to bereavement
leave to provide uniformity in the language of the provision among the various
bargaining group agreements.
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Financial Impacts & Budget Actions
The total cost of the negotiated changes contained in the new agreement is $1,533,812
for FY 2011-2012 and $2,561,339 for FY 2012-2013. No additional appropriations for
the biennial FY 2011-2013 budget is necessary.
Prepared by: Donna C. Peter, Director of Human Resources
Approved:
Donna C. Peter
Director of Human Resources
Forwarded to Council:
Rod Gould
City Manager
Attachments:
A. Resolution
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Reference Resolution No.
10606 (CCS).