City Council Meeting
September 13, 2022
Amy Reeve
Director of Human Resources,
Human Resources Department
1 APPROVAL AND ADOPTION OF
RESOLUTION ELIMINATING THE
BUS OPERATOR TRAINEE
CLASSIFICATION AND PAYSCALE
BACKGROUND
The City’s representatives and representatives of
the Service Employees International Union
(SEIU), representing the City’s Unit 8 – Transit,
have met and conferred concerning a Side Letter
Agreement to the existing Memorandum of
Understanding to eliminate Classification and
corresponding pay range and start employees on
the Bus Operator Pay Scale.
• This Agreement would be retroactive to April
1, 2022
2 Current Economics
Current Language in Section 66.7 of the Unit 8
Memorandum of Understanding states the following:
• “Bus Operators in training shall begin at a wage rate of Step 1 of the Bus Operator Trainee salary range and
progress to a maximum of Step 2 of the Bus Operator
Trainee salary range according to the terms of the
CityBus Operating Procedures.”
CityBus Standard Operating Procedures Section IX
(Training) specifies that the training period will not
exceed 90 days.
Current Pay Scales:
3 Position Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5
Bus Operator Trainee 19.04 20.88
Bus Operator 24.87 26.09 27.41 28.74 30.23
:
Benefits
4 • Attract and retain Bus Operators Moving
Forward
• In line with Bus Operator pay in surrounding
jurisdictions
• Retroactive to April 1, 2022, to ensure new
hires do not come in at a higher rate than
incumbents.
Fiscal Impact
By eliminating the Bus Operator Trainee position,
the Transit Enterprise Funds will make a one-time
payment of retroactive salaries in the amount of
$1,345. This payment can be made from
appropriations adopted with the FY 2022-23
annual budget. Since Bus Operators are funded
by the Transit Enterprise funds there will be no
impact on the General Fund.
5 RECOMMENDATION
It is recommended by the Human Resources
Department that Council, by resolution: 1) adopt
a Side Letter to the Memorandum of
Understanding for Unit 8 – Transit; and 2)
authorize the City Manager to execute the Side
Letter and eliminate the Bus Operator Trainee
classification and pay scale, as a recruitment and
retention strategy, retroactive to April 1, 2022.
6 QUESTIONS?
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