City Council
MEETING DATE: 11/12/2014
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Ratification of Labor Agreement - Cathedral City Police Management Association
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FROM:
Tami Scott, Administrative Services Director
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Staff recommends that the City Council ratify the Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Cathedral City ("City") and the Cathedral City Police Management Association ("CCPMA") for the period of January 1, 2015 through June 30, 2019.
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BACKGROUND:
The City has concluded negotiations with the Cathedral City Police Management Association ("CCPMA") for a successor Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") whereby the new agreement covers a period of four and one half years from January 1, 2015 through June 30, 2019.
DISCUSSION:
For the past several years all city employees have had to deal with a number of compensation and benefit reductions due to the great recession and to assist the City in its survival to deliver services to the community. As such, the period of this agreement reflects phased in cost of living ("COLA's") adjustments essentially restoring some of the concessions employees have had to make over the last four years. The increases are to be effective the first payroll period following the designated dates:
* 4%- 01/01/2015
* 3%- 07/01/2015
* 4%- 01/01/2016
* Consumer Price Index ("CPI") adjustment- 07/01/2017 not to exceed 4%
* CPI 07/01/2018 not to exceed 4%
Additionally, the following changes are included in the MOU:
* Eliminating Step 1 of Salary Range 451 (Sergeant) and add a step at the top of the range (there will be no change to current employee pay)
* Providing a 2.5% increase in 15 year longevity pay and a 2.5% 25 year longevity stipend for those employees hired before 01/01/2013 and further eliminate all 15, 20 and 25 year longevity pay for all employees hired after 01/01/2013
* Adding 2.5% special assignment pay for those Sergeants assigned to SED and PACT teams
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