City Council
Report
City Council Meeting: August 23, 2022
Agenda Item: 5.P
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To: Mayor and City Council
From: Lori Gentles, Chief People Officer, Human Resources Department Subject: Adoption of a Resolution accepting the tentative agreement and authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and execute a Memorandum of Understanding with the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers - Transportation Division, Local 1785
Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1. Adopt the proposed Resolution (Attachment A) accepting the tentative agreement and authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and execute a Memorandum of Understanding with the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers, Transportation Division, Local 1785(SMART-TD);
2. Adopt the salary schedule (Attachment B); and
3. Authorize budget changes as outlined in the Financial Impacts & Budget Actions section of this report.
Summary
In accordance with the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (MMBA), negotiations between the City and the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers, Transportation Division, Local 1785 (SMART-TD), have resulted in a Tentative Agreement (TA) regarding a successor Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
SMART-TD has finalized the ratification voting process, approving the terms of the TA.
City staff recommends that the Council approve the ratified TA to establish the successor agreement between the City and SMART-TD.
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Discussion
The MOU between the City and each bargaining unit establishes wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment. Under the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (MMBA) in California, local public agencies negotiate with exclusively recognized employee organizations on wages, hours, and working conditions. The City currently is still in negotiations with one of these employee organizations (often referred to as bargaining groups or unions) whose contract with the City expired on June 30, 2022.
The overall policy of the City has been to maintain competitive benefits and working conditions in a high-cost geographic labor market in order to retain and attract a highquality workforce to serve our community across a wide range of specialized services.
Since most, though not all, City jobs are most comparable to those in other (competing) municipal organizations, the City has traditionally looked to full-service cities in our region of similar size and financial strength for labor market comparisons.
The terms of this tentative agreement bring the City closer in alignment with our comparable peer transit agencies while simultaneously preserving a level of benefits that will keep the City of Santa Monica competitive in a tight labor market. Peer agencies include Long Beach Transit, Los Angeles County Metro, Culver City, Gardena and Torrance.
The substantive changes for the TA with SMART-TD are outlined below:
• Term of Agreement: July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2025. • Closest Pay Period following Council adoption (August 28, 2022) = 7% salary increase plus a one-time signing bonus of $2,500
• July 1, 2023 = 3% salary increase
• July 1, 2024 = 3% salary increase.
• Add Cesar Chavez and Juneteenth as paid holidays.
• Increase to annual lump sum Uniform Voucher from $400 to $580 • Compensation study to be conducted by January 1, 2025 3 of 3
Financial Impacts and Budget Actions
The total cost of the negotiated changes contained in the tentative agreement presented in this report is approximately $2,812,000 for FY 2022-23 in the Big Blue Bus (BBB) Fund. If the changes are approved, funding for the FY 2022-23 changes will be appropriated in non-Departmental accounts in the BBB Fund. The funds will be transferred to the corresponding accounts in the Department of Transportation budget along with the FY 2021-22 Year-end Budget changes being presented to Council on October 25, 2022.
Prepared By: Sarah Rebensdorf, Senior Human Resources Analyst Approved Forwarded to Council
Attachments:
A. SMART-TD TA RESO 8.23.22
B. SMT FY22-23 Salary Schedule COLA 7%