REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Approve Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Sunnyvale and the Public Safety Officers Association 2015-2020 and Resolution to Amend the City's Salary Resolution and the Schedule of Pay to Increase Salaries for Pay Plan Category C (Classified Public Safety Officers and Lieutenants) and Pay Plan Category D/E (Public Safety Captains and Public Safety Deputy Chiefs)
Report
BACKGROUND
A Tentative Agreement has been reached between the City of Sunnyvale (City) and the Public Safety Officers Association (PSOA) on a successor Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). PSOA represents Public Safety Officers and Public Safety Lieutenants. This report recommends approval of the MOU, which, if approved by the City Council, will be in effect from July 1, 2015 through and including December 31, 2020.
The MOU between the City and PSOA expired on June 30, 2015. Negotiators for the City and PSOA began the meet and confer process in April 2015 and met 22 times in an effort to reach an agreement. A Tentative Agreement was reached on July 26, 2016, and on August 12, 2016, the City was notified that the PSOA membership ratified this agreement.
The MOU between the City and the Public Safety Managers Association (PSMA) provides that, "Members in the PSMA bargaining group will receive the same percentage of salary increase as the Public Safety Officers Association Lieutenant." (MOU Section 12.2.). However, the MOU between the PSMA and the City expired on June 30, 2015. Although the PSMA MOU is expired and subject to negotiation, staff recommends, and the PSMA has agreed, to maintain the differential between the ranks of Lieutenant and Captain by providing the same wage increase to PSMA bargaining unit members as that provided to employees in the Lieutenant classification, effective retroactively to July 1, 2016 to avoid compaction between employees in the rank of Captain and the Lieutenants they supervise. Particularly given the challenges in...
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