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HomeMy WebLinkAbout06/26/1989 Item #F-3dr AGENDA ITEM # F -3 l ) C CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH MEET AND CONFER BY iN' i;ITY COUNCIL CITY OF NEWPORT BEAM June 16, 1989 MEMORANDUM TO: Honorable Mayor Strauss and members of the City Council FROM: The City's Negotiating Team JUN 2 6 1989 APlMLL171D ---- REGARDING: Tentative agreement with the Newport Beach Firefighters Association (N.B.F.A.) THE FOLLOWING POINTS HAVE BEEN AGREED TO BY THE NEGOTIATORS FOR THE N.B.F.A. AND THE CITY'S NEGOTIATORS. FINAL AGREEMENT IS SUBJECT TO RATIFICATION BY THE MEMBERS OF THE N.B.F.A. AND THE CITY COUNCIL. 1. Total compensation increase of 4% for the period July 1, 1989 to June 29,1990. 2. The City will cap its contribution to employee health care plans at $400.00 per month. 3. The City will modify its contract with P.E.R.S. to allow for the best/highest year calculation. The City will pay the total extra cost of the highest year benefit for the first year and phase it into total comp. at the rate of an additional 20% per year until it is 100% included in the total comp. calculation. Employees who elect to do so will still be allowed to pay their own P.E.R.S. contributions in their last year of employment. 4. The City will modify the current policies regarding sick and vacation leave into a flexible paid leave policy. (proposal attached) It shall be understood that the N.B.F.A. will defer decision until next negotiation period, or earlier by common agreement. Failure of the N.B.F.A. to respond to above date will indicate current system will remain in place. 5. The City will acquire 6 Lifecycles and 2 Lifesteps to be assigned to the fire stations to assist fire personnel in maintaining their physical fitness (equipment specifications to be developed by the N.B.F.A.) The City will also budget $ 5,000.00 per year for maintenance, repair, improvement and replacement of this equipment. 6. The City will establish an amortizing payroll system which will level the payment of regularly scheduled work time into 26 equal installments. 7. The physical fitness assessment program shall be maintained on a voluntary basis. Fitness reports (pass/fail) on participants will sent to the Fire Chief. N.B.F.A. members who wish to continue in the physical fitness assessment program may do so on their own time. 8 Certified members of the Hazardous Materials Response Team shall receive an assignment bonus of $100.00 per month. This assignment bonus shall remain in force for the life of this agreement unless the Orange County Hazardous Materials J.P.A. requires its members to pay a uniform assignment bonus to all Haz/Mat response team members, Then the City will pay the greater amount. 9. The City approves of the establishment of a pilot program modifying the Fire Department's vacation selection system (VSS). The goal of the new VSS is to gradually, through attrition, phase out mandatory scheduling for vacation relief in favor of substitution by hired overtime. (Application to all members could be done without attrition if agreed by the Fire Chief and the N.B.F.A. ) The rules governing VSS shall be mutually developed by the Fire Chief's office and authorized representatives of the N.B.F.A. and shall be subject to the approval of the Fire Chief. The pilot VSS shall began within 30 days after agreement has been reached on the governing rules. The program is subject to cancellation, at any time, if it is determined by the Fire Chief to be a contributing factor to reductions in departmental effectiveness or moral. .. • n 10. Section 602.7.3.3. of the City's personnel manual shall be modified in the following manner: CHANGE........", the employee shall receive a minimum of three (3) hours compensation for the first and one (1) hour compensation for each hour thereafter:' .......... TO........... , the employee shall be compensated at the rate of one (1) hour's compensation for each hour worked, and will be compensated at time and one half if the event causes the individual to exceed the 7K limit for the F.L.S.A. work period ................. 11. N.B.F.A. members shall be required to attend their regular departmentally scheduled EMT recertification classes. If an N.B.F.A. member misses, or knows he will miss, his regularly scheduled EMT recertification class, he must first contact the department's executive officer and attempt to schedule himself into a make up session. If a make up session is not available within the department's program schedule, the N.B.F.A. member is responsible for seeking out and attending the make up session on his own time.