HomeMy WebLinkAbout07/10/1989 Item #F-3aAGENDA ITEM # F - 3 (a)
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
MEET AND CONFER
July 5,1989
MEMORANDUM
TO: Honorable Mayor Strauss and members of the City Council
FROM: The City's Negotiating Team
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APPROVED
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REGARDING: Tentative agreement with the Newport Beach Employees
League (NBEL).
THE FOLLOWING POINTS HAVE BEEN AGREED TO BY THE
NEGOTIATORS FOR THE NBEL. AND THE CITY'S NEGOTIATORS. FINAL
• AGREEMENT IS SUBJECT TO RATIFICATION BY THE MEMBERS OF THE
NBEL AND THE CITY COUNCIL.
1. Total compensation increase of 4.5% 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. (Subject to the ratification of highest year
retirement benefit)
3. The City will modify its contract with P.E.R.S. to allow for the
best/highest calculation. The City will pay the total extra cost of the
highest year benefit for the life of this agreement. 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. This benefit will be implemented as
soon as all miscellaneous groups have agreed to accept this benefit.
4. The City will work with the NBEL leadership, through its department
• managers, to establish labor/management committees departmentally
whenever it is mutually determined it is appropriate to do so.
5. The City will modify section #502 of the personnel resolution to clarify
the method by which employees may request consideration for
reclassification of their position.
6. The City agrees to post the accrual of sick and vacation leave biweekly,
• and to merge floating holidays into the vacation accrual system
effective January 1 1990.
7. The City agrees to increase the night shift differential for the
automotive shop shall be $0.75 per hour; for all other night shift work
the differential shall be $1.00 per hour. Night shift hours for areas
other than the automotive shop shall be considered all hours between
9:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m.
8. The City agrees to establish a Medical -Advisory Committee to assist in
the decision making processes involved in the design and
maintenance of health and dental plans.
9. The City will modify its grievance procedures for the purpose of
clarifying issues of grievability and defining limits of items which have
legitimate access to step 4 of the grievance procedure.
10. The City will revise its performance evaluation system to more clearly
• define the specific roles of the employee and the various levels of
supervision. Also, beginning January, 1990, all members of the
NBCEA bargaining unit shall be given, at minimum, annual
performance evaluations.
11. Effective July 1, 1989, the differential pay for operation of a one man
packer shall be 17.5%.
12. The City will develop policy language which clarifies and reinforces the
City's practices related to promotional preference.
13. The City will continue to provide special training courses for NBEL
supervisory personnel. The program will be modified to be
administered by the individual departments, for the purpose of
addressing the specific needs of the group. The City will consult with
the NBEL as it considers course design and schedule. The City will also
work with the NBEL to establish a program of health awareness
(wellness).
• 14. The City will supply the NBCEA with data on new employees who are
hired within the NBCEA unit for the purpose of membership
solicitation.
15. The City agrees to liberalize its policy which relates to the accelerated
ware of safety shoes.
16. It is understood that the active employee's contribution to maintain
the retiree's health care plan is based on 25% of the actual plan cost.
• For the life of this agreement that amount shall be $12.21 per month.
17. Employees who are members of the NBEL or become members shall be
required to membership fees for the life of this agreement.
18. The City will require that all traffic collisions involving City vehicles
shall be reviewed by a traffic division supervisor of the Newport Beach
Police Department prior to being forwarded to the DMV. Also, the
vehicle accident review board will evaluate the supervisor's field
report prior to making its preventable/ non -preventable
determination.
19. The City agrees to grant special salary adjustments to Parks and General
Services supervisors in an amount up to 3% of salary.
20. The City shall retain a consulting firm to conduct an Orange County
market survey focusing on the comparative compensation received by
General Services, Parks, and Utilities supervisors.
• 21. The City shall revoke, upon ratification of this agreement, the health
care deductions made in June of 1989. (Subject to ratification of highest
year retirement benefit)
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