DATE: December 6, 2022
DEPARTMENT: ADMINISTRATION
FROM: Steven S. Carrigan, City Manager BY: Marina Horta-Gallegos, Human Resources Director Che Johnson, Attorney, Liebert, Cassidy & Whitmore
Katie Hogan, Assistant City Attorney
TITLE: IAFF MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING; MODIFICATION TO CLASSIFICATION – SALARY SCHEDULE RECOMMENDED MOTION:
A motion authorizing the City Manager to sign the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Salinas Firefighters Association, International Association of Firefighters Local 1270 (IAFF), for a term ending on December 31, 2025, and approving modification to the Classification – Salary Schedule for the wage adjustments.
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the City Council approve a Resolution authorizing the City Manager to sign a new Memorandum of Understanding with IAFF and authorizing modification to the Classification – Salary Schedule.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
The MOU between the City and the IAFF expires on December 31, 2022. Representatives of the City and the IAFF met and conferred in good faith through the collective bargaining process and have reached tentative agreement on the terms of a new MOU consistent with City Council direction. The attached MOU between the City and IAFF is the result of several weeks of good faith negotiations between the parties. Highlights of the MOU changes include the following:
Term: January 2023 through December 2025
Wages: 4% salary increase effective January 2023; 2% effective in January 2024 and 2% effective in January 2025 Education Incentive: eliminated; $2,880 rolled into base pay Uniform Allowance: increase to $2,000 per calendar year Health: Revised cost sharing on health benefits
Other Terms: Language/process clean-up
CEQA CONSIDERATION:
Not a Project. The City of Salinas has determined that the proposed action is not a project as defined by the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) (CEQA Guidelines Section 15378).
STRATEGIC PLAN INITIATIVE:
The proposed action meets the Effective and Culturally Responsive Government Council goal within the 2022-2025 Strategic Plan.
FISCAL AND SUSTAINABILITY IMPACT:
The projected cumulative cost of the IAFF adjustments over three years, totals approximately $4,125,000.
ATTACHMENTS:
Resolution
Memorandum of Understanding with IAFF
Classification – Salary Schedule
RESOLUTION NO. _________ (N.C.S.)
A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE MEMORANDUM of UNDERSTANDING FOR THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIREFIGHTERS LOCAL 1270 AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO SIGN THE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING AND AUTHORIZING MODIFICATION TO THE CLASSIFICATION – SALARY SCHEDULE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF SALINAS that the City Manager is hereby authorized and directed for and on behalf of the City of Salinas to sign the Memorandum of Understanding for the International Association of Firefighters Local 1270, for a term through December 31, 2025, and authorizing the corresponding modification to the Classification – Salary Schedule.
APPROVED this 6th day of December 2022, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
____________________________________ Kimbley Craig, Mayor ATTEST:
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Patricia Barajas, City Clerk
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