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65 D. MOU with SAPOA <br />Tentative Agreement Questions: <br />The POA membership and city council recently reached a tentative agreement over wages and <br />benefits. On Tuesday, the city council is expected to vote on the MOU. Can the city council <br />reconsider this tentative agreement? <br />-Is this tentative agreement set in stone? <br />-Does the city council have to approve the MOU in public? <br />-How many votes does the city council need to appropriate funds for this contract? <br />• How are we paying for this contract? Vacancy savings, measure x? If so, does the city not <br />plan on filling the police officer funded vacancies(61)and (50)unfunded vacancies ? <br />• How does this contract help the SAPD retain or recruit police officers? <br />-If the city council does not get the majority vote (5 votes) to authorize the expenditures for this <br />agreed upon contract what happens with the tentative agreement? <br />Recommended Action/ Staff Report Questions: <br />• Is this a staff recommended action? <br />• Is this a city council directed action ? <br />• Would the city council be giving this directive if Measure X failed <br />• How many raises has the POA received since 2011? <br />• Are these raises only for 3 years ? <br />• The figures in the staff report only project out the costs of these raises through the 20/21 <br />fiscal year. Has staff put together what the on-going costs are of these raises beyond <br />6/30/21 including pension costs and compared those to the deficit projections previously <br />provided during prior budget meetings? <br />• Is it wise to utilize one time officer vacancy savings as justification for entering into a <br />contract that will result in perpetual expense? <br />• How exactly will providing raises improve safety, prevent -homelessness, and support our <br />parks? Is it solely because we believe that by offering higher salary, we will result in <br />increased hiring results? Each time that we have given raises previously, have we seen a <br />spike in hiring success? <br />• If the last time that the police received raises was January 1, 2018 why would we have a <br />July 1, 2018 retroactive raise period? <br />• If the city moves into insolvency, will our current officer pensions be at risk? <br />• How many other bargaining units have received raises since the last police union raises <br />were implemented? <br />• Since the city's payroll system is antiquated, is allocating 288 hours of payroll/HR staff <br />time solely to determine retroactive pay for officers an appropriate use of city resources? <br />Police Vacancies: <br />How many funded police positions do we have in the current budget? <br />How many unfunded police positions do we have in the current budget? <br />