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Home My WebLink About25D - MOU POLICE MGMT ASSOCREQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: JUNE 29, 2009 TITLE: AGREEMENT WITH THE POLICE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION f ,' ~ ~ ~~, CITY MANAGER RECOMMENDED ACTION CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: APPROVED ^ As Recommended ^ As Amended ^ Ordinance on 1S' Reading ^ Ordinance on 2nd Reading ^ {mplementing Resolution ^ Set Public Hearing For_ CONTINUED TO FILE NUMBER Direct the City Attorney to prepare and authorize the City Manager and Clerk of the Council to execute an agreement with the Police Management Association regarding wages and other terms and conditions of employment. DISCUSSION The City and the Police Management Association (PMA) recently completed contract negotiations resulting in a one-year contract extension to the 2008-09 and 2009-10 amended Memorandum of Understanding. This extension period covers July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011. The provisions of this extended agreement are as follows: 1) Salary: July 1, 2009 = Oo January 1, 2010 = July 1, 2010 = 40 January 1, 2011 = 0% (deferred from July 1, 2009) 2.50 (deferred from January 1, 2010) 2) Holiday and vacation cash out: Employees shall defer holiday and vacation cash out for 2009-10, and maximum cash out value is 160 hours per year for 2010-11, 2011-12, and 2012-13. 3) Educational Incentive: Add new courses to the existing menu of options. Existing maximum earnings remain unchanged. 4) Should any other bargaining unit receive a salary or benefit increase during the term of this Agreement, with the exception of the 4% and 2.5% salary increases originally scheduled for July 1, 2009 and January 1, 2010, respectively, PMA employees shall be granted that salary or benefit equivalent. 25D-1 Agreement with PMA June 29, 2009 Page 2 of 2 FISCAL IMPACT There is a $322,612 savings to the City for deferral of salary increases and leave cash outs. -~ .4~ ,-- Kathie S. Gonzalez Acting Executive Director Personnel Services 25D-2 ONE-YEAR CONTRACT EXTENSION TO THE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING, AS AMENDED, BETWEEN THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AND THE SANTA ANA POLICE MANAGERS' ASSOCIATION FOR FISCAL YEAR 2010- l 1 The City of Santa Ana (CITY) and the Police Management Association (PMA) have met and agreed to amend the previously amended 2004-10 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the CITY AND PMA, by extending this amended MOU for one (1) additional year. Tie existing MOU provisions shall remain unchanged unless addressed by this amendment. The new expiration date of the MOU, as amended, shall be June 30, 2011, and MOU shall be amended as follows: AMENDED ARTICLE IV (new language in bold; deleted provisions lined out) 4.3 Salaries. A. The base salaries of employees covered by this Agreement shall be adjusted as follows: Effective July 1, 2008, the base salaries of classifications covered by this Agreement shall be increased by approximately four percent (4%). Effective January 1, 2009, the base salaries of classifications covered by this Agreement shall be increased by approximately two and one-half percent (2.5%). ° Effective July 1, 2009, there shall be no salary increase for employees covered by this Agreement. ° Effective January 1, 2010, there shall be no salary increase for employees covered by this Agreement. Effective July 1, 2010, the base salaries of classifications covered by this Agreement shall be increased by approximately four percent (49'0). Effective Jnnunry 1, 2011, the base salaries of classifications covered by this Agreement shall be increased by approximately two and one-half percent (2.59'0). 25D-3 Should any other bargaining unit, with the exception of SEIU, receive a salary or benefit increase during the term of this Agreement, PMA employees shall be granted that salary or benefit equivalent. The City and Association agree that upon the expiration of this Agreement and during the period of good faith negotiations for a subsequent contract, salary and benefits shall continue at the then current rate. AMENDED ARTICLE VI (new language in bold; deleted provisions lined out) G. Homeland Security Executive Leaders Program. Any employee covered by this Agreement who successfully completes the Homeland Security Executive Lenders Program shall be paid nt a rate set five (5) salary rate ranges (approximately 2.5~a) above his or her then current base monthly salary step. H. Advanced Leadership Program (note new letter "H"). Additional leadership courses to be added to the already existing menu contained in the Advanced Leadership Program under existing Section G are: • FBI-LEEDA Executive Survival 32 hours • Role of the Police Chief 40 hours I. Additional Courses. Any other course, 24 hours or longer, which focuses on developing leadership skills or increasing knowledge of contemporary Inw enforcement issues of a management/executive nature, or which enhances knowledge of community policing strategies or trends. All such courses shall be reviewed and approved by the Chief of Police after he/she ensures that the above criteria is met. AMENDED ARTICLE IX (new language in bold; deleted provisions lined out) 9.6 Leave Cash Option. Employees covered by this Agreement may cash out a combination of the following leaves, up to a maximum of 120 hours in a calendar year. -~#al•ews: Effective July 1, 2009, all employees covered by this Agreement shall defer for the duration of Fiscal Year 2009-10 an employee's ability to cash out holiday leave, regular and/or longevity vacation leave, and management vacation leave. Effective July 1, 2010, employees choosing to cash out a combination of these leaves may begin to do so, up to a maximum of 160 hours in a calendar year as follows: A. Receive cash compensation, computed on straight time basis, up to a maximum of eighty (80) hours of their holiday leave benefits, including the floating holiday, set forth in Section 9.2 above. Effective July 1, 2009, all employees covered by this Agreement shall defer for the duration of Fiscal Yenr 2009-10 an employee's 25D-4 ability to cosh out holiday leave time. The ability to cash out holiday leave time shall be reinstated on July 1, 2010. Such deferral shall not affect an employee's ability to be compensated for accumulated holiday leave time upon separation from employment with the City, not to exceed a maximum of 160 hours. 1. Effective July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2013, employees choosing to cash out their holiday time may do so to n maximum value of 1.33 x 80 hours, or 106 hours per year. B. Receive cash compensation, computed on a straight time basis, up to a maximum of eighty (80) hours of earned, unused regular vacation leave (which includes longevity vacation) benefits, set forth in Sections 10.2 and 10.3, respectively, herein. Effective July 1, 2009, all employees covered by this Agreement shall defer for the duration of Fiscal Year 2009-10 an employee's ability to cash out vacation leave time. The ability to cash out vacation leave time shall be reinstated July 1, 2010. Such deferral shall not affect an employee's ability to cash out vacation leave time upon separation of employment with the City. 1. Effective July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2013, employees choosing to cosh out their vacation leave time may do so up to a maximum value of 1.33 x 80 hours, or 106 hours per year. C. Receive cash compensation, computed on a straight time basis, up to a maximum of forty (40) hours of earned, unused management vacation leave benefits, set forth in Section 10.7 herein. Effective July 1, 2009, all employees covered by this Agreement shall defer for the duration of Fiscal Year 2009-10 nn employee's ability to cash out management vacation time. The ability to cash out management vacation time shall be reinstated July 1, 2010. Such deferral shall not affect an employee's ability to cash out management vacation time upon separation of employment with the City. 1. Effective July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2013 employees choosing to cash out their management vacation leave time may do so up to n maximum value of 1.33x40 hours, or 53 hours per year. The terms and conditions identified in "bold type" above apply to the Cash Option set forth in 9.6 above for the period of time beginning July 1, 2009, and ending June 30, 2013. Effective July 1, 2013, these terms and conditions no longer apply and the Cnsh Option reverts to that set forth above (maximum of 120 hours of combined holiday, regular or longevity vacation, and/or management vacation). Such cash option may be eliminated or modified to the extent it is construed as overtime under Department of Labor Guidelines implementing provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. 25D-5 AMENDED ARTICLE XII (new language in bold; deleted provisions lined out) 12.4 Life Insurance. The City shall continue to pay one hundred percent (100%) of the premium cost for term life insurance coverage under the policy it maintains on behalf of its officers and employees in order to provide employees covered by this Agreement with life insurance coverage in an amount equal to twice such employee's annual rate of salary to a maximum of three hundred thousand ($300,000), provided said affected employees can provide evidence of insurability of coverage above one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) if so required by the terms and conditions of said term life insurance policy. AMENDED ARTICLE XXVI 26.1 The term of this Agreement shall be from July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011. 25D-6 AMENDED ARTICLE XXVII 27.0 RATIFICATION AND EXECUTION 27.1 The City and the Association have reached an understanding as to certain recommendations to be made to the City Council for the City of Santa Ana and have agreed that the parties hereto will jointly urge said Council to adopt a new wage and salary resolution which will provide for the changes contained in said joint recommendations. The City and the Association acknowledge that this Agreement shall not be in full force and effect until ratified by the membership of the Association and adopted by the City Council of the City of Santa Ana. Subject to the foregoing this Agreement is hereby executed by the authorized representatives of the City and Association and entered into this 29th day of June, 2009. CITY OF SANTA ANA, a Municipal Corporation of the State of California Dated: Dated: Dated: l9~ ~ ~~ ATTEST: CLERK OF THE COUNCIL By: MAYOR By: CITY MANAGER By: ACTING EXECU VE DIRECTOR, PERSONNEL SERVICES 25D-7 APPROVED AS TO FORM: This Agreement has been ratified by the membership of the Santa Ana Police Management Association. Dated: (O/~ Z~ ~ SANTA ANA POLICE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION STEVE COLON, PRESIDENT 25D-8