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of Mounds View Staff R Item No: 5D Meeting Date: March 12, 2018 Type of Business: Consent To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Rayla Sue Ewald, Human Resources Coordinator Item Title/Subject: Resolution 8919 Approving a Memorandum of Understanding between the City and LELS 232 regarding a Training Stipend Introduction: Law Enforcement Labor Services, Inc. is the bargaining group representing both the patrol officers and the sergeants. The Patrol unit is Local 204 while the Sergeants unit is Local 232. Discussion: When the City hires new patrol officers, other officers within the unit provide the field training. The patrol officers who perform the training are referred to as Field Training Officers, and according to the labor agreement with the patrol officers, when the officers are needed to provide this training they qualify for an additional stipend of .75 hours of Compensatory Time per shift. Due to recent changes in the patrol officer ranks, staff that had been certified to conduct such training has been depleted. With the hiring of two new patrol officers, we will need to have sergeants assist in providing field training services. A similar situation requiring sergeants for training occurred in 2011. At that time Council signed Resolution 7756 agreeing to a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which put in place in the Sergeants labor agreement stipend for field training. Attached is a MOU approved by the bargaining group, the City Administrator and the City Attorney. To ensure the department is able to provide the new police officer with the training needed, the MOU indicates that the same stipend available to the Patrol unit would be available to the Sergeants unit. Recommendation: Staff recommends approval of Resolution 8919, a resolution approving a Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Mounds View and LELS 232 regarding a training stipend. Respectfully submitted, TL tJJ Rayla ue Ewald Human Resources Coordinator