REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
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Amend the Schedule of Pay of the Salary Resolution: Salary Adjustment for Pay Plan Category C (applies to Classified Public Safety Officers and Lieutenants) and Pay Plan Category D/E (applies to Public Safety Captains and Public Safety Deputy Chiefs) and Approve Budget Modification No. 27
Report
BACKGROUND
The 2006-2015 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Public Safety Officers' Association (PSOA) provides for salary adjustments for Public Safety Officers and Public Safety Lieutenants. Adjustments are to be based on the market survey data of total compensation for 12 Bay Area cities and require that the City "provide such increase as needed to adjust the wages of the Public Safety Officers and Public Safety Lieutenants eleven percent (11%) above" the survey average of the top eight agencies.
The July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2015 MOU with the Public Safety Managers' Association (PSMA) states that Public Safety Captains and Public Safety Deputy Chiefs are to receive the same percentage of salary increase as the Public Safety Lieutenant classification on the same effective date as the Public Safety Lieutenant and retroactive, if applicable.
EXISTING POLICY
The proposed increases are in accordance with the provisions of the current MOU between the City of Sunnyvale and the PSOA and current MOU between the City of Sunnyvale and the PSMA.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
N/A
DISCUSSION
As noted, when the current MOU was adopted, the previous MOUs with the PSOA established a wage formula based upon an annual market survey of total compensation for 12 Bay Area cities. The formula provides for total compensation for Sunnyvale classifications to be 11 percent above the survey average of the top eight surveyed agencies. Pursuant to the current MOU, the same methodology was used for this year's survey.
Based on the results of this year's survey, it is recommended that the Pay Plan Category C and D/E of the Schedu...
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