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FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
BETWEEN
CITY OF SANTA ANA
MCI
OCT 2 9 1014 SANTA ANA MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
0: H9- (0) FOR THE TERM JULY 1, 2022 THROUGH JUNE 30, 2025
Daniel Durham(KF)
This First Amendment to the Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") is entered into on October
15, 2024, by and between the City of Santa Ana, a charter city and municipal corporation organized
and existing under the Constitution and the laws of the State of California ("City") and the Santa
Ana Management Association ("SAMA'D a recognized employee bargaining unit (collectively
"Parties").
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the Parties have entered into an MOU with a term of July 1, 2022 through
June 30, 2025; and
WHEREAS, the Parties wish to modify Article 9.0 of their MOU as set forth below.
THE PARTIES THEREFORE AGREE as follows (additions are underlined and deletions
are stricken):
1, Article 9.0, Section 2.3 (bl to amend the language as follows:
3. Vacation Buy -Back.
a. Through December 31, 2023
1. Employees are eligible to require the City to buy back up to
eighty (80) hours of their banked vacation leave per fiscal year.
2. Employees are eligible to require the City to buy backup to forty
(40) hours of their banked management vacation leave once each
calendar year. Upon City Council approval of this 2022-2025
MOU, employees are eligible to require the City to buy back up
to eighty (80) hours of their banked management vacation leave
once each calendar year.
b. Effective January 1, 2024 and continuing every year thereafter
If an employee wants to cash -out unused vacation leave they
accrued during the calendar year, they must make an irrevocable
election by December 15s' of the prior calendar year (i.e., by
December 15, 2023 for a cash -out in calendar year 2024). The
provisions of Section 9.2(F)(3)(b) shall also apply to
management vacation leave,
2. The irrevocable election must indicate the amount of vacation
hours the employee intends to cash -out during the next calendar
year.
The number of hours to be cashed -out cannot exceed the total
number of hours the employee will accrue during that same
calendar year, or a maximum of eighty (80) hours, whichever is
the lesser amount.
Once the election form is submitted to Payroll, the amount of
hours to be cashed -out cannot be changed for that calendar year,
4. Employees may submit a request for cash -out up to two (2) times
per year for payment the in the first paycheck { d—K-hieh
if"Aldeb of July4 and/or December-l�.
5. In the event an employee's vacation leave balance (on either pay
period when they can elect to caslr-out) is less than the amount
of hours the employee had previously elected to cash -out (in the
prior calendar year), the employee will only receive payment for
the amount of accumulated vacation leave remaining at the time
of the cash -out in either July or December.
6. If an employee makes an irrevocable election to cash -out
vacation in the following calendar year and uses vacation leave
during that subsequent calendar year, the vacation leave used
will first come from vacation leave the employee had earned (if
any) prior to January I" of the calendar year the employee had
elected to cash -out. The use of such earned, but unused, vacation
leave accumulated from previous calendar years shall not result
in a reduction in the amount of vacation hours the employee is
eligible to cash -out.
2. Except asset forth in this First Amendment, the tertns and conditions of the MOU remain in
place.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this First Amendment to the MOU,
on the date and year written above.
CITY OF SANTA ANA
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Alvaro Nunez Date
City Manager
ATTEST:
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Cit Cle,
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Sonia R. Carvalho, City Attorney
By! a -A 9/26/2024
Laura A. Rossini Date
Chief Assistant City Attorney- Employee Relations
RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL:
L ' Schnaider Date
Executive Director of Human Resources
SANTA ANA MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
Waldo Barela, SAMA President Date