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Item No: 8D Meeting Date: March 14, 2011 Type of Business: Consent City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: James Ericson, City Administrator Item Title/Subject: Resolution 7756 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: W hen 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 $154.50 per month, or prorated as may be the case. Due to recent promotions from the patrol officer ranks, the staff that had been certified to conduct such training has been depleted. It will likely be the case that one or both of the recently promoted sergeants will need to provide field training services in the interim, however there is no corresponding training stipend in the Sergeants’ labor agreement. Attached is a Memorandum of Understanding (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 7756, a resolution approving a Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Mounds View and LELS 232 regarding a training stipend. Respectfully submitted, ________________________ James Ericson City Administrator