HomeMy WebLinkAboutS19 - NB Professional & Technical Association - LIUNAMarch 27, 2001
Agenda Item S19
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Sharon Wood, Assistant City Manager
SUBJECT: Supplemental Memorandum of Understanding with Newport Beach
Professional and Technical Association Regarding LIUNA Pension
Plan
Recommendation
Approve the attached supplemental memorandum of understanding (MOU.)
Discussion
The Professional and Technical Association has affiliated with United Public Employees
of California, LIUNA Local 777, and has received approval from LIUNA to participate
in their pension plan. All full -time City employees are members of the California Public
Employees Retirement System (PERS), and the LIUNA program is a supplemental
retirement program. As directed by the City Council, staff has negotiated a supplemental
memorandum of understanding (MOU) providing that the City will make contributions
equal to 1% of salaries for employees in this bargaining unit for the pension plan.
Salaries of these employees will be reduced by 1% so that there is no City cost to the
program. This is a comparable agreement to the one reached with the City Employees
Association (CEA) in 1998. CEA agreed to forego 1% of the salary increase authorized
by the City Council, in exchange for the City making contributions to the pension fund
for those employees represented by CEA.
Employees in the bargaining unit represented by the Professional and Technical
Association voted on the supplemental MOU the week of March 12, and approved it.
SUPPLEMENTAL
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
This supplemental Memorandum of Understanding amends the Memorandum of Understanding
between the City of Newport Beach and the Newport Beach Professional and Technical Employees
Association dated July 1, 1998 through June 30, 2001. Except as modified by this supplemental
MOU, all the provisions of the Memorandum of Understanding between the City and the Newport
Beach Professional and Technical Employees Association remain unchanged.
The City and the Newport Beach Professional and Technical Employees Association agree as
follows:
A. AFFILIATION
The City has been informed and acknowledges that the Association has affiliated with
UPEC - LIUNA 777.
B. LIUNA SUPPLEMENTAL L PPF 1dN
1. Effective April.-t; 2001, the City shall contribute, on behalf of each unit member, one
percent (1 %) of base salary into the LIUNA Supplemental Pension Fund. The
City's sole obligation is to forward the agreed upon amount to the fund. The City is
not responsible for, nor does it make an representation regarding, the payment of
benefits to unit members.
The Association and UPEC - LIUNA 777 agree to defend, indemnify and hold
harmless the City for its actions pursuant to this section.
C. SALARIES 'Im
Effective April X, 2001 base salaries for unit members shall be decreased by one percent
(I %).
Except as provided herein, the Memorandum of Understanding between the City and the Newport
Beach Professional and Technical Employees Association remains in full force and effect. This
supplemental Memorandum of Understanding shall be incorporated into the Memorandum of
Understanding between the City and Association for the contract period beginning July 1, 1998
through June 30, 2001.
FOR THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
FOR THE NEWPORT BEACH
PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL
EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION
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