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Human Resources <br />www.santa-ana.org/departments/human-resources/ <br />Item # 42 <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br /> Staff Report <br />June 6, 2023 <br />TOPIC: Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Santa Ana and the Service <br />Employees International Union Local 721 Full-Time Employees Unit <br />AGENDA TITLE <br />Adoption of a Memorandum of Understanding Establishing the Terms and Conditions of <br />Employment for Full-Time Classifications Represented by the Service Employees <br />International Union (“SEIU”) Local 721, effective July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2025 <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />Authorize the City Manager to execute a Memorandum of Understanding with SEIU Local <br />721 Full-Time Employees Unit regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions <br />of employment effective July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2025, and authorize non- <br />substantive changes which may be necessary to implement the agreement. <br />DISCUSSION <br />The City recently reached a tentative agreement with SEIU Local 721 on a three (3) year <br />successor Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) effective July 1, 2022 through June <br />30, 2025. The tentative agreement has been ratified by SEIU membership. The major <br />provisions of the agreement include: salary increases of three percent (3%) retroactive to <br />July 1, 2022, three percent (3%) in July 2023, and three percent (3%) in July 2024; <br />reopener in January 2025 to discuss results of a compensation market study; recognizing <br />Cesar Chavez holiday; winter holiday closure language; increasing City medical <br />contributions by one hundred dollars ($100) per month effective the first full pay period <br />following City Council approval of the MOU, fifty dollars ($50) per month in January 2024, <br />and fifty dollars ($50) per month in January 2025; increasing City dental contribution by <br />twenty dollars ($20) per month effective the first full pay period following City Council <br />approval of the MOU; City contribution of one percent (1%) to employees’ retirement <br />health savings accounts; motorcycle license pay of up to six hundred dollars ($600) per <br />year for employees who repair and maintain police motorcycles; water certification pay of <br />up to four hundred dollars ($400) per month; and conversion of hours to retirement health <br />savings or deferred compensation if the maximum vacation cap is reached.