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CITY OF SALINAS
COUNCIL STAFF REPORT
DATE: January 24, 2023
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: FIRE SUPERVISORS ASSOCIATION 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 Fire Supervisors Association (FSA), 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 FSA and authorizing modification to the Classification – Salary Schedule for the FSA salary adjustment.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
The MOU between the City and the FSA expired on December 31, 2022. Representatives of the City and the FSA met and conferred in good faith through the collective bargaining process and have reached a tentative agreement on the terms of a new MOU consistent with City Council direction. The attached MOU between the City and FSA 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 February 2023; 2% effective in January 2024 and 2% effective in January 2025
Education Incentive: eliminated; $4,800 rolled into base pay On-call Pay: For standby afterhours and on weekends
Health: Revised cost sharing on health benefits
Other Terms: Language/process clean-up
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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 FSA adjustments over three years, totals approximately $561,000.
ATTACHMENTS:
Resolution
Memorandum of Understanding with FSA
Classification – Salary Schedule
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RESOLUTION NO. _________ (N.C.S.)
A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING FOR
THE FIRE SUPERVISORS ASSOCIATION 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 Fire Supervisors Association, for a term through December 31, 2025, and authorizing the corresponding modification to the Classification – Salary Schedule.
APPROVED this 24th day of January 2023, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN: APPROVED:
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Kimbley Craig, Mayor
ATTEST:
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Patricia M. Barajas, City Clerk