RESOLUTION NO. 2022-06
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GONZALES ESTABLISHING THE 2022-2024 LEVEL OF BENEFITS FOR MISCELLANEOUS
AND FIRE SAFETY EMPLOYEES
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Gonzales establishes the salaries and benefits for the City’s miscellaneous employees via resolution; and WHEREAS, the City Council has determined that the salary schedules for the miscellaneous classifications shall be revised, and certain other terms and conditions of the Level of Benefits shall continue for 2022 through 2024.
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Gonzales that the following classifications are subject to the terms and conditions of this resolution:
Miscellaneous Employees:
Public Works Lead Worker
Building Inspector I & II
Police Services Technician
Senior Accounting Technician
Executive Assistant to the City Manager/Deputy City Clerk Development Services Technician/Administrative Analyst
Accounting Specialist
Administrative Assistant/Records Supervisor
Administrative Assistant I and II
Youth Program Coordinator
Sports and Senior Programs Coordinator
Secretary
Receptionist-Clerk
Fire Safety Employees:
Fire Engineer
Section 1: Salary Adjustment
Salary Adjustment Schedule: The City agrees that all classifications covered by this resolution may be entitled to a wage increase in accordance with the following schedule and procedure:
First full Pay Period, January 2022: 3.5%
First full Pay Period, January 2023: 3.75%
First full Pay Period, January 2024: 3.75%
Section 2: Tenured (Longevity) Pay
The City agrees to provide Tenured (Longevity) adjustments to base salary pursuant to the following schedule:
• Employees who have been employed with the City for at least fifteen (15) years, will be compensated an additional two percent (2%) of the employee’s base pay; • Employees who have been employed with the City for at least twenty (20) years, will be compensated an additional two percent (2%) of the employee’s base pay; • Employees who have been employed with the City for at least twenty (25) years, will be compensated an additional two percent (2%) of the employee’s base pay. • Employees who have been employed with the City for at least thirty (30) years, will be compensated an additional two percent (2%) of the employee’s base pay.
Section 3: Bilingual Pay
For the classifications covered by this Resolution and upon approval by management, according to City’s need and upon the employee passing a City-sponsored test for bilingual verbal skills, City shall pay 5% of base salary per month as bilingual pay.
Section 4: Retirement
The City will provide the following CalPERS Retirement plan:
Miscellaneous Employees:
• CALPERS CLASSIC EMPLOYEES: The City shall contribute the employer’s contribution, as per the existing contract between CalPERS and the Gonzales miscellaneous group under the 2% @ 60 defined benefit retirement plan for classic employees as defined by CalPERS. Employees under this designation will contribute the full 7% of reportable compensation toward this benefit on a pre-tax basis.
• GRANDFATHERED CLASSIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT PAYMENT
OFFSET: Effective July 1, 2016, the City will provide a 3.5% increase to the base salary for those employed on that date with no break in service since. For all other CalPERS classic employees hired after July 1, 2016, the 3.5% increase to the employee’s base salary does not apply and does not apply to re-hires. • NEW (PEPRA) EMPLOYEES: Effective January 1, 2013, the City shall contribute the employer’s contribution as per the formula established by CalPERS for the Gonzales miscellaneous group under the 2% @ 62 defined benefit retirement plan for new (PEPRA) employees as defined by CalPERS. However, as required by PEPRA the City is no longer allowed to pay for the Employee Paid Member Contribution (EPMC) and therefore, new (PEPRA) employees are responsible for paying the full amount of the employee’s portion of the CalPERS defined benefit retirement plan.
Fire Safety Employees:
• CALPERS CLASSIC EMPLOYEES: The City shall contribute the employer’s contribution, as per the existing contract between CalPERS and the Gonzales public safety group under the 2% @ 55 defined benefit retirement plan for classic employees as defined by CalPERS.
• GRANDFATHERED CLASSIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT PAYMENT
OFFSET: Effective July 1, 2016, the City will provide a 3.5% increase to the base salary for those employed on that date. For all other CalPERS classic employees hired after July 1, 2016, the 3.5% increase to the employee’s base salary does not apply and does not apply to re-hires.
• NEW (PEPRA) EMPLOYEES: Effective January 1, 2013 the City shall contribute the Employers’ contribution as per the formula established by CalPERS for the Gonzales Public Safety Group under the 2% @ 57 Defined Retirement Plan for new (PEPRA) employees as defined by CalPERS. However, as required by PEPRA, the City is no longer allowed to pay for the Employee Paid Member Contribution (EPMC) and therefore, new (PEPRA) employees are responsible for paying for the full amount of the employee’s portion of the CalPERS defined benefit retirement plan.
Section 5: Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
The City shall pay 100% of the cost of health insurance premiums for an employee's medical, vision and dental coverage and contributes towards dependent coverage.
The City’s Health Insurance is a self-funded plan. The City no longer provides medical retiree health coverage.
A. Employee Contribution: If dependents coverage is requested, employee shall pay at the rate of $106.62 per month for 1 dependent or $341.30 per month for 2 or more dependents.
B. Payment-in-Lieu-of-Medical-Coverage: Any employee in this classification with valid proof of enrollment in an outside medical coverage program, whose health insurance premiums are not paid by the City, may receive a payment-in-lieu of medical coverage.
a. Employees hired prior to April 1, 2016 with no break in service, “payment-in-lieu-of-medical-coverage” is grandfathered at the monthly reimbursement rate of $400. This special rate will be permanently forfeited if an employee opts to accept the medical coverage provided by the City. b. Effective April 1, 2016, for new employees, this “payment-in-lieu-ofmedical-coverage” of $400 is for an employee with 2 or more dependents, this will be adjusted to $200 for an employee with 1 dependent, and to $100 for an employee only.
Section 6: Deferred Compensation
The City will contribute up to $600 (six hundred dollars per year) every December toward deferred compensation. Employee must be in active status at the time of City contribution. The City will contribute $.20 (twenty cents) for every $1.00 (one dollar) an employee contributes to deferred compensation. Miscellaneous Employee has to contribute $3,000 (three thousand dollars) per year to realize the city yearly contribution.
Section 7: Life Insurance
City shall provide term life insurance for each employee. The amount of coverage shall be the employee’s annual salary multiplied by 1.5 not to exceed $150,000.
Section 8: Conversion of Accumulated Sick Leave
Any employee who retires or resigns from City services with a minimum of fifteen (15) years of services shall be entitled to convert unused sick leave as provided below:
A. Employee who has completed a minimum of twenty (20) years of service and has accumulated a minimum of one thousand (1000) hours of sick leave, shall be entitled to convert fifty percent (50%) of his/her unused sick leave to paid time off; B. Employee who is at least fifty-five (55) years old and has completed a minimum of fifteen (15) years of service, shall be entitled to convert twenty percent (20%) of his/her unused sick leave to paid time off;
C. Employee who is under the age of fifty-five (55) and has completed a minimum of fifteen (15) years of service, shall be entitled to convert ten percent (10%) of his/her unused sick leave to paid time off;
Such paid time off shall be used immediately preceding the employee’s retirement date.
City retains the right and sole discretion to determine whether to pay an employee the cash equivalent of the unused sick leave referenced in subsections A., B., and C. above, in-lieu of paid time off. Employees terminated by City are not eligible for the provisions provided herein.
Section 9: Holidays
The following holidays are recognized as municipal holidays, and all employees shall have these days off, except as otherwise provided. Permanent employees shall receive eight (8) hours of holiday pay for each holiday.
A. January 1 (New Years Day)
B. Third Monday in January (Martin Luther King Jr. Day) C. Third Monday in February (President’s Day)
D. Last Monday in May (Memorial Day)
E. July 4 (Independence Day)
F. First Monday in September (Labor Day)
G. November 11 (Veteran’s Day)
H. Fourth Thursday in November (Thanksgiving Day)
I. Fourth Friday in November (The day following Thanksgiving Day) J. December 24 (Christmas Eve)
K. December 25 (Christmas Day)
L. Every day appointed by the President of the United States or the Governor of the State for a public fast, thanksgiving, day of mourning or holiday.
M. Floating Holiday: Each employee, upon their individual request, shall be granted one floating holiday each calendar year. Sufficient notice shall be given to the employee’s immediate supervisor prior to the use of said holiday. Scheduling of said holiday is not to interfere with the work schedule of City.
N. Employees assigned to work on holidays shall receive eight (8) hours credit for said holiday, plus one and one-half (1 1/2) times their hourly rate for each hour worked on said holiday.
O. Fire Engineers assigned to shifts that regularly include holidays shall be paid for
7.33 hours of holiday pay at 1.5 times the employee’s base hourly rate of pay, payable in the second pay period of every month in lieu of taking holiday off.
Section 10: Safety Boots
For the classification of Public Works Lead Worker and Fire Engineer upon administrative direction, City shall pay $200.00 maximum to provide safety boots on an asneeded basis, but not more often than once every twelve (12) months. In the event, that an employee resigns within six (6) months of the purchase of the safety boots, the employee shall be required to reimburse the City for one-half (1/2) of the City’s cost of the safety boots.
Section 11: Uniforms
a. Fire Engineers shall be furnished 2 shirts and trousers annually for use at work. b. Public Works Lead Worker shall be furnished 3 shirts, trousers, and coveralls for use at work.
c. From January 1, 2016, at the commencement of the updated resolution establishing the level of benefits for miscellaneous and fire safety employees, and upon the direction of CalPERS, the City will report to CalPERS the monetary value for providing, maintaining, and replacing uniforms to all employees covered under this resolution, who are required to wear uniforms provided by the City. The City will report the total bi-weekly amount for the initial cost and/or maintenance and/or replacement of uniforms, for each
employee. The bi-weekly amounts reported to CalPERS will derive from the City’s invoices of total cost per employee for the maintenance of uniforms. The bi-weekly amounts reported to CalPERS will also include the total cost for initially providing uniforms, and/or the replacement of uniforms when applicable, and the amounts for the initial cost and/or replacement. The invoices provided to the City, by its uniform vendor, will include the unit price, which will determine the total cost, per employee. The City will report to CalPERS, no more than $800 per year, per employee, for providing the initial cost, replacement, and maintenance of required uniforms, in the manner as described in this paragraph for all employees that receive a uniform.
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Gonzales duly held on the 18
th day of January 2022, by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS:
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS:
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS:
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS:
Jose L. Rios, The Honorable Mayor
ATTEST:
Mary Villegas, Deputy City Clerk