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AGENDA TITLE: Authorize Staff to Modify the Lodi Professional Firefighter Association Labor Unit
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) According to the Signed Tentative
Agreement (TA)
MEETING DATE: June 16,2010
PREPARED BY: Human Resources Manager
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Authorize staff to modify the Lodi Professional Firefighter
Association labor unit memorandum of understanding (MOU)
according to the signed tentative agreement (TA).
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Following general City Council direction, staff has sought to ensure
a balanced 2010/2011 General Fund budget. This has necessitated
reducing expenditures within City departments to include employee
unit/group's salary and benefits. At its June 2, 2010 meeting,
Council approved the tentative modifications to current employee Memoranda of Understanding for all
bargaining units except for the Lodi Professional Firefighters (LPF) Bargaining Unit. The LPF tentative
agreement is presented to Council on June 16th because a vote was not scheduled by the LPF for this
agreement until June 3,2010 (and subsequently passed on that day).
The structure of this tentative agreement is similar to the agreement signed by the LPF for Fiscal Year
2009/2010. The agreement includes a range of contributions, including a salary reduction, waiving the
deferred compensation match, and limits on overtime and cash -out of benefits.
The total value of employee contributions, to include all employee bargaining groups including the LPF, is
approximately $2.3 million for FY 2010/11.
Please refer to Attachment A for a review cf the Tentative Agreement.
FISCAL IMPACT: The combined total of all employee contributions for Fiscal Year 2010/2011
reduces the City's General Fund salary and benefit obligations by approximately
$2.3 million.
FUNDING AVAILABLE: Not applicable.
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APPROVED:
Interim City Manager
SIDE LETTER TO THE LODI PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS MOU
A. The City of Lodi and the Lodi Professional Firefighters currently operate
under a Memorandum of Understanding effective July 1, 2007 through
December 31, 2010 as Amended by Addendum dated February of 2009.
B. This Side Letter is issued for the purpose of addressing the significant and
unanticipated budget crisis caused by the current economic downturn.
For the above reasons the Parties agree as follows:
Bargaining Unit Members agree to waive Vacation Cash Out, and
Deferred Compensation Match beginning in the first pay period in which
July 1, 2010 falls and ending in the first pay period in which June 30, 2011
falls.
Minimum Staffing: The parties agree to lower current staffing from 15 to
12 where necessary to avoid overtime for the period between July 1,20 10
and June 30, 2011. Staffing will be returned to 15 after June 30, 2011.
This agreement will, where necessary, close the second company (Engine
2031) at Station One to ensure that all four stations remain operational
24/7. Overtime restrictions will not apply where overtime needs are
caused by OES strike team responses and emergency call backs.
Article VII — Compensatory Time, shall be amended to add the following:
At the end of section 7.4 add the following sentence: However, during the
pay periods in which July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011 fall, a maximum
of 480 hours of compensatory time may be carried on the books. After
July 1, 2011 employees with banks in excess of 144 hours shall be
entitled to continue to use their excess compensatory time but shall not be
eligible to accrue additional compensatory time until their compensatory
time balance falls below 144 hours.
Article VIII — Salary, shall be amended to add the following:
Add new paragraph 8.5 as follows: Bargaining unit members agree to a
2.5% salary reduction beginning in the first pay period in which July 1,
2010 falls and ending in the first pay period in which June 30, 2011 falls.
Add new paragraph 8.6 as follows: The City endeavors, where financially
feasible, to pay fire salaries at the median of the survey cities.
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Article XXIII — Retirement, shall be amended to add the following:
Add Section 23.3 as follows: The City will explore the financial feasibility
of exchanging a salary increase for employee paid employee share of
PERS contributions. However, any decision to make the exchange shall
be in the full discretion of the City Council.
This Side Letter shall not become effective until approved by the Lodi City
Council. Moreover, in the event that revised budget projections permit reduction
of these contributions during the 2010/11 budget year, City agrees to revisit and
roll them back as soon as feasible.
CITY OF LODI,
a municipal corporation
K(5N ADT BARTLAM, City Manager
DEAN GUA O R Manager
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ATTEST:
RANDI JOHL, J.D., City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
D.`TEP ISN - ABA�UER
City Attorney
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Lodi Professional Firefighters
Representative