AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO AGREEMENT NO. C2023-566
Memorandum of Understanding Between and For the City of Napa and Napa City Employees Association This Amendment No. 1 (“Amendment”) to City Agreement No. C2023-566, entitled Memorandum of Understanding Between and For the City of Napa and Napa City Employees Association (“MOU”), by and between the City of Napa, a California charter city (“City”), and the Napa City Employees Association (“NCEA”), is effective on the Effective Date identified on the signature page.
RECITALS
The City of Napa ("City") and the Napa City Employees Association ("NCEA") are parties to a Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") (Agreement No. C2023-566) with a term of July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2024.
In the Total Tentative Agreement reached between the City and NCEA dated June 20, 2022 (“TTA”), the parties agreed, “to meet and develop a side letter for the term of this Agreement related to the vacancies within the Public Safety Dispatcher and Public Safety Dispatch Call Taker classifications.” The City and NCEA held a series of eight meetings beginning in October 2022 to discuss the vacancies and challenges within the dispatch call center and discuss terms of a possible side letter or amendment.
The City and NCEA have agreed to the terms of a contract amendment to add POST pay for dispatchers, as laid out in Attachment A.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City and NCEA, for the mutual consideration described herein, agree as follows:
INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE. Unless otherwise specified, all subsequent references to the Agreement are deemed to mean the original MOU as modified by any amendments preceding this Amendment, if any. This Amendment incorporates the MOU by reference, except and only to the extent that any terms or conditions of the MOU are specifically modified by this Amendment. All terms and conditions in the MOU that are not specifically modified by this Amendment remain in full force and effect.
AMENDMENT TO MOU. The City and NCEA hereby amend the MOU by adding a new Section 3.15, as forth in Exhibit A (attached hereto and incorporated by reference).
ENTIRE MOU. The MOU, as modified by this Amendment, constitutes the entire integrated understanding between the parties concerning the Amended Section. The Amendment supersedes all prior negotiations, agreements and understandings regarding the vacancies within the Public Safety Dispatcher and Public Safety Dispatch Call Taker classifications as referenced in the TTA , whether written or oral. The documents incorporated by reference into this Amendment are complementary; what is called for in one is binding as if called for in all, except and only to the extent otherwise specified.
SIGNATURES. The individuals executing this Amendment represent and warrant that they have the right, power, legal capacity, and authority to enter into and to execute this Amendment on behalf of the respective legal entities of NCEA and City. This Amendment shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and authorized assigns.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties have executed this Amendment to be effective on the Effective Date set forth below.
CITY: Napa City Employees Association:
CITY OF NAPA, a California charter city
By: By:
Steve Potter, City Manager Arlene Taylor, SEIU Field Representative By:
ATTEST:
Tiffany Carranza, City Clerk
Date:
(“Effective Date”)
COUNTERSIGNED:
Joy Riesenberg, City Auditor
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Michael W. Barrett, City Attorney
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Memorandum of Understanding Between and For the City of Napa and Napa City Employees Association ATTACHMENT 1