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LOCAL 721 <br />IN. <br />March 17, 2020 <br />Subject: COVID-19 Closures, SEIU Local 721 Comments for Council Item 55C (email) <br />SEW <br />SERVICE EMPLOYEES <br />INTERNATIONAL UNION, cIw, cLC Dear Mayor, City Council and City Manager Ridge (7�zcatiare); <br />OFFICERS <br />BobSchoonover <br />PRESIDENT We appreciate the urgency, proactive measures taken by you all, and we offer our <br />Linda Dent assistance, where feasible and safe, to help address the COVID-19 crisis. These comments <br />VICE PRESIDENT are submitted for tonight's City Council Agenda Item 55C and closed session. <br />Lillian Cabral <br />SECRETARY Meet and Confers are most useful prior to implementing changed working conditions. <br />David Green <br />TREASURER Although requested of HR, we have not yet met and conferred regarding the impact of <br />DIRECTORS closures and unknown changes being developed (without labor input) for your approval <br />LA. COUNTY tonight. This letter and the attached are submitted for tonight's 3117120 City Council <br />APRES DENT MeetingItem 55C and closed session comments. We also request that HR be directed <br />VICE PRESIDENT q <br />VICE KelleyDixon PRESIDENT to re-establish the City's safety committee —remotely, to work with management, labor and <br />Lydia Cobra/ employees, to collaboratively address this crisis, safety concerns and reduce risks. <br />Carolyn Dasher <br />Patrick Conte <br />Valenciais Garner <br />During this crisis, we request that: <br />Steven Gimian <br />Adolfo Granados 1. all existing City employees be paid (as previously budgeted for) until at least the <br />Aline MendizabMendoza al <br />F. <br />Tony Menremainder of this Fiscal Year, whether working, sick, care -taking, or sick themselves; <br />Omar Perez 2. all employees —who were texted/directed not to work at closed centers or asked not to <br />Jose Sanchez <br />Grace Santillano anticipate future hours on timesheets--be fully paid without adverse fiscal impacts; <br />Veryeti Vessel 3. non -sick employees be allowed to complete work tasks still needed and/or remote) <br />Sharonda WadeP y; <br />LAIOC CITIES 4. the below and enclosed `solutions be considered: ('subject to meet and confer): <br />Simboe Wright <br />VICE PRESIDENT • Healthy employees might be able to assist others with tasks required due to COVID-19 impacts; <br />Stacey Karnya <br />VICE PRESIDENT • Encouraging and promoting the use of remote work & schedule flexibility for care -taking; <br />Joaquin Avalos • Providing emotional community support (staff staying in phone contact with eldedy/vulnerable); <br />Pedro Conde <br />Kesavan Korand • City staff assisting "meals on wheels" or other service providers during this crisis, etc. <br />Guillermo Martinez <br />Andy Morales Vctor M. Vasquez We look forward to your leadership being instrumental to stabilize the economic impacts to <br />i <br />Salvador Zambrano our dedicated part and full-time service providers (members), many of whom are residents <br />TRI-COUNTIES Grace Sepulveda and who spend their paychecks in the City. Our Chapter members are an important part of <br />VICE PRESIDENT Santa Ana's community and are ready to assist to be a part of the solution. <br />Rosa Castro <br />VICE PRESIDENT <br />Roberto Camacho Wishing you and yours much health and safety during these unprecedented times, <br />Jesse Gomez <br />Charles Harrington <br />Liza Roche <br />INLAND AREA <br />Christi Bell Monica M. Suter <br />VICE PRESIDENT <br />Cheylynda Barnard SEIU Local 721 Santa Ana Chapter President <br />VICE PRESIDENT <br />Mike Beato Enclosed (1): "SEIU Local 721 COVID-19 Position" Document` <br />Tim Burke <br />Orac)o Diaz <br />Barbara Hunter <br />Roger Nunez C: City Clerk (for Transmission into City Council Meeting Minutes Comments) <br />Tara Stoddart HR Executive Director Steven Pham <br />David Warpness <br />RETIREE MEMBER Santa Ana Chapter Board, WSO Eunique Ferguson & President Bob Schoonover <br />Charley Mims OCLF Executive Director Gloria Alvarado <br />htto:/rwww.seiu721 wa <br />1545 Wilshire Blvd Ste 100 • Los Angeles CA 90017-4510 • Tel (213) 368-8660 • Fax (213) 380-8040 222 W Caimen In Ste 201 • Santa Made CA 93458-7777 • Tel INS) 623-52%• Fax INS) 6235 57 <br />6177 River Crest Or Ste B • Riverside CA 92507-0786 • Tel (951) 571-7700 • Fax (951) 653{310 1651 E 4th St Ste 250 • Santa Ana CA 92701-5169 • Tel (714) 541-1 ON • Fax (714) 541.1084 <br />77-933 Las Marshes Rd Ste 2057Aiea C • Palm Desert CA 922114131 • Tel (760) M5-1368 • Fax (760) 404-0712 44421 101h St W Ste I • Lancaster CA 93531J335 • Tel (877) 7214968 • Fax (6611206-7800 <br />2472 Eastman Ave Ste 30 • Venture CA 930035774 • Tel (805) 6504420 • Fax (805) 650-1028 <br />