SIDE LETTER BETWEEN
CITY OF COTATI AND
COTATI POLICE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
RE: 2022 COLA, HOLIDAY PAY -AND LIFE INSURANCE
The City of Cotati ("City") and Cotati Police Management Association ("Association") (collectively referred to as the "parties") have met and conferred and hereby tentatively agree to the following side letter, subject to ratification by the bargaining unit and approval by the City Council of Cotati.
WHEREAS, the collective bargaining agreement between the parties, which expires June 30, 2024, provides for employees represented by the Association a cost-of-living adjustment of 2.5%, plus an equity adjustment of one-half percent (0.5%), for a total adjustment of three percent (3%) in July 2022;
WHEREAS, the annual (June to June) San Francisco Bay Area Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) was 6.8%, reflecting high inflation rates, which significantly exceeded the cost-of-living increase that employees will receive in the current fiscal year; and WHEREAS, as a result of these extraordinary circumstances, the City is willing to increase the cost-of-living adjustment for Fiscal Year 2022-2023;
WHEREAS, the City is willing to increase life insurance on a City-wide basis; NOW THEREFORE, effective upon City Council approval, the parties agree as follows:
1. Effective the first day of the pay period including August 9, 2022, salary schedules for represented job descriptions will be increased by one percent (1%). This is in addition to the two and one-half percent (2.5%) cost of living adjustment and one-half percent (0.5%) equity adjustment effective the first pay period in July 2022, which was previously negotiated and reflected in Section 7.01 of the 2019 Memorandum of Understanding between the parties.
The parties acknowledge and agree that this additional cost of living increase is on a one- time basis only, and shall not constitute, nor be considered as precedent-setting, nor be relied upon to assert a past practice supporting future payments.
2. Section 7.08 of the Memorandum of Understanding between the parties, entitled "Holiday Pay," will be amended as follows:
Section 7.08 Holiday Pay
All full time permanent and probationary sworn employees shall be paid for twelve and one half (12.5) ten (10) hour holidays per year which shall be payable in the pay period when the holiday is accrued, semi annual installments based on the rate of pay at the
SIDE LETTER BETWEEN
CITY OF COTATI AND
COTATI POLICE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
RE: 2022 COLA, HOLIDAY PAY -AND LIFE INSURANCE
time of payment. The first installment shall be paid on the first pay period in December and represents six and one half holidays (65 hours). The second payment shall be paid on the first pay period in June and represents six holidays (60 hours. Part time permanent and new employees will receive a pro-rata portion of the holiday pay based on the number of regularly assigned work hours during the pay period in which the holiday falls.
An employee must be in full paid status in the pay period in which the holiday falls in order to receive holiday pay. Part time permanent and new employees will receive a pro- rata portion based on the proportion of hours worked over a standard 80 hours holidays worked during that period.
3. Section 8.02 of the Memorandum of Understanding between the parties, entitled "Other Insurance," subsection "A," entitled "Life Insurance," will be amended as follows:
Section 8.02. Other Insurance
A. Life Insurance: Effective the first full pay period including August 9,in September 2022, the City shall provide life insurance coverage in the amount of one-hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) $100,000 for each employee. The policy shall be determined by the City and shall cover in the line of duty deaths/accidents. The City will pay one hundred percent (100%) of the premium. The City does not make available any life insurance policy to the employee's eligible dependents.
This side letter shall expire June 30, 2024, unless otherwise mutually agreed to by the parties.
SO AGREED:
FOR THE CITY: FOR THE ASSOCIATION:
-B Hall
Dated: Dated: 8/4/22