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Home My WebLink About88-020RESOLIYrION NO. 88-20 A RESOLIfrION OF THE CITY COL1NCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA ADJUSTING SALARIES AND CERTAIN EMPLOYEE BENEFITS FOR t~PLOYEES REPRESENTED BY THE SANTA ANA POLICE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION FOR FISCAL YEAR 1987-88 P~REAS, Section 1004, Article X of the City Charter of the City of Santa Ana requires the City Manager to prepare, install and maintain a position classification and pay plan subject to civil service rules and regulations and the approval of the City Council; and WHEREAS, on August 2, 1982 the City Council passed and adopted Resolution No. 82-110 revising and re-establishing the basic Classificaton and Compensation Plan for the Officers and Employees of the City of Santa Ana; and WHEREAS, the City Council has on numerous occassions ratified and adopted Memoranda of Understanding (hereinafter referred to as '~O~') between the City of Santa Aha and each of several recognized employee organizations pertaining to salaries, benefits, hours and other terms and conditions of employment; and I~HEREAS, the City has this year successfully negotiated two-year agreements with the Santa Ana City Employees Association and the Santa Ana Firemen's Benevolent Association and has adopted two-year compensation adjustment plans covering unaffiliated confidential and unrepresented management personnel; and WHERFAS, representatives of the City and the Santa Ana Police Benevolent Association ("PBA") have met on numerous occasions in an attempt to reach agreement on the terms and conditions of a new memorandum of understanding to supercede the MOUwhich expired on June 30, 1987; and 1~, the parties have reached a point in their meeting and conferring in good faith where their differences concerning matters on which they are required to meet and confer remain so substantial that further meeting and conferring will not be likely to result in an agreement; and WHEREAS, because the representatives of the PBAhave failed to attend impasse meetings or to propose one of the alternate dispute resolution methods provided for in the City's Employer-Employee Resolution, the City's management negotiating team, in order to provide the same general salary increase granted all other employees of the City and to maintain the City's competitive position in the local labor market, hereby submits the following compensation adjustments for Fiscal Year 1987-88 for employees represented by the P.B.A. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: That Section 3 of Resolution No. 82-110, as amended, is hereby further amended by: 1. Providing a two percent (2%) special equity salary adjustment, effective January 1, 1988, for the class of Police Sergeant by assigning said class to Salary Rate range No. 545 ($2980-$3622). 165 166 RESOLUTION NO. 88-20 Page 2 2. Providing a four and one-half percent (4.5%) general salary adjustment, effective March 1, 1988, for the following class titles by assigning such classes to new salary rate ranges as next herein set out. Class Title Salary Rate Range No. (Min. - Max.) Animal Control Officer I Animal Control Officer II Background Investigator Criminal Activities Analyst Criminalist I Criminalist II Criminalist III Criminalistics Laboratory Aide Evidence and Property Clerk Forensic Specialist I Forensic Specialist II Parking Control Officer Police Communications Supervisor POLICE OFFICER Police Recruit POLICE SERGFANT Police Service Officer Police Services Dispatcher Senior Forensic Specialist 4s3 ($1902-$23n) 483 ($2201-$2676) 46s ($2017-$2451) 471 ($2076-$2523) 501 ($2402-$2921) 534 ($2824-$3432) 554 ($3113-$3784) 360 ($1209-$1469) 451 ($1883-$2288) 458 ($1950-$2369) 487 ($2246-$2730) 418 ($1604-$1950) 513 ($2548-$5098) 515 ($2574-$3129) 477 ($2139-$2600) 554 ($3113-$3784) 448 ($185%$2257) 475 ($2097-$2548) 514 ($2561-$5115) Adding a new subsection, Section 3.6, to read as follows: "Section 3.6 SPECIAL ONE-TIME LUMP SUM SALARY PAYMENT FOR E~PLOYEES IN CLASSES OF I~PLOYMENT REPRESENTED BY THE SANTA iNA POLICE Bt~EVOLENT ASSOCIATION DURING FISCAL YEAR 1987-88. For each such Santa Ama Police Benevolent Association bargaining unit employee employed with the City as of February 29, 1988, the City will pay a one-time, lump stun salary payment in an amount equal to nine (9) salary rate ranges (4.5%) of each employee's base semi-monthly pay rate in effect on February 29, 1988, times the number of pay periods in which the employee received pay for official time worked during each pay period between July 1, 1987 and February 29, 1988. Said one-time, lump-sum payment shall be computed on base salary only, including career development grades, and shall therefore, exclude all pay additives and other payroll costs such as assignment pay, bilingual pay, shift R~SOLUTION NO. 88-20 Page 3 differential pay, overtime pay, deferred retirement payments, insurance cash-back payments, and City contributions toward various employee benefit insurance programs. Such payment is not an increase in base salary and no salary rate range applicable to any such employee shall be changed or deemed to have been changed by reason thereof. Nevertheless, for the purpose of reporting compensation to P.E.R.S., said salary payment will be counted toward the employee's retirement." 4. Increasing bilingual pay by fifty dollars ($50.00) per month for employees in classes represented by the P.B.A. by amending subsection "B(1) of the paragraph under Section 3.1, which commences with the underscored words "Bilingual Pay," to read as follows: "B. Differential Amounts (1) Personnel in classes of employment represented by the Police Benevolent Association (P.B.A.): $1S0 per month, effective April 1, 1988." BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That, in addition to the salary and bilingual skill pay adjustment specified hereabove, employees represented by the PBA shall be granted the following employee benefit improvements: 1. Tuition Reimbursement, under the terms and conditions of the existing Training and Educational Assistance Program, shall be increased from one hundred seventy-five dollars ($175.00) per semester to three hundred fifty dollars ($350.00) per semester, effective April 1, 1988. 2. Compensatory Time Off Benefits. An affected eligible employee may, with the prior permission of his or her supervisor and subject to the operational needs of the department, accumulate up to eighty (80) hours of earned unused compensatory time off. Effective April 1, 1988 and December 1, 1988 and twice during each calendar year thereafter, on April 1st and December 1st, an affected employee having accrued compensatory time off credits, may elect to convert up to forty (40) hours of such accrued time off credits to the cash equivalent thereof, to a maximtun of eighty (80) hours per calendar year. 3. Vacation Leave. Each affected employeeshall be afforded the opportunity to submit vacation selection(s) and the appointing authority shall make every reasonable effort to accommodate the employee's vacation preference(s). Additionally, any affected employee who is in jeopardy of losing vacation pursuant to existing policies, practices and procedures governing vacation leave may administratively apply to the Chief of Police for a 30-day extension beyond the normal cut off date so that such employee will not lose vacation leave. RESOLIfrION NO. 88-20 Page 4 4. Bereavement Leave. The definition of "immediate family' as used in the policy and practices currently governing bereavement leave for affected employees shall be expanded to include grandparents and grandchildren. S. Health Insurance. The City shall contribute to the PBA for health insurance the same increases as it provides to other City employees, to wit: a. If, on or after October 1, 1988, the total monthly premium for the most expensive "employee only' coverage among the City's ~ plans exceeds $133.32 per month, the City will increase its contribution up to an amount equal to $133.32 plus 50% of the amount of said premium in excess o£ $133.32 per month. b. If, on or after October 1, 1988, the total monthly premium for the most expensive "family coverage" among the City's [~O plans exceeds $255.00 per month, the City will increase its contribution up to an amount equal to $255.00 plus 50% of the amount of said premium in excess of $133.32. BB IT FURTHER RESOLVI~: That, in addition to the salary and benefit adjustments specified hereinabove, all employees represented by the PBA shall continue to receive any and all employee benefits and rights which they were entitled to receive or enjoy on June 30, 1987 by reason of prior action of the City Council. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVt~D: That this Council has intended, and now intends that this Resolution be operative from and after April 1, 1988. ATI'PSST: ADOPTED this 4th day of April, 1988. ~'~nlce C. Guy ' ~lerk of the Council COUNC ILMM~ERS: Young MgGuigan ~ Acosta N~v~ Griset Hart Pulido Nay APPROVED AS TO FORM: