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Item No: 08C Meeting Date: Nov 8, 2010 Type of Business: Council Business City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: James Ericson, City Administrator Item Title/Subject: Resolution 7699 Approving a Two-Year Labor Agreement with American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 5, Local 2686 Introduction: The City and AFSCME Council No. 5, Local 2686, began negotiations for the 2010-2011 labor agreement in May of 2009. The two parties eventually reached an impasse in negotiations and scheduled a mediation session. The mediation did not result in a settled contract and no further negotiation occurred until the LELS Local 204 arbitration ruling was released in September 2010. Subsequent to the patrol officer arbitration ruling, AFSCME representatives agreed to settle the two-year contract with no wage increases subject to retroactive adjustment of health care premium contributions. Discussion: The City had previously offered AFSCME members a monthly contribution of $842.22 for insurance premiums. The arbitrator for the patrol officers’ union ruled that the City’s contribution (for that group) should be $867.33 per month per employee. In an effort to maintain internal consistency and equity among employees and bargaining groups, the City Council was amenable to the retroactive adjustment for AFSCME members as well. Other proposed changes to the contract would address the problem with holidays on weekends. AFSCME and City representatives agreed on language that would provide floating holidays for when Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve fall on a weekend. (The language is consistent with what is written in the City’s Personnel Manual.) Another change would increase the comp time balance to a maximum of 60 hours. The final stipulation to a mutually agreeable contract relates to the implementation of the amended wage and step progression approved by the City Council in May of 2010, which introduced a “half-step” at six months rather than a full step. In return for accepting the revised step progression, the recently hired Public Service Officer (PSO) would be compensated under the previous step progression, whereby the PSO would be eligible for a full step increase to Step 2 at six months, with an increase to Step 3 after one year. Contract Summary: • Wages: No increase in wages 2010 or 2011 • Insurance Contribution $867.33, retroactive to Jan 1, 2010 • Uniform Reimbursement No Increase 2010 or 2011 • Comp Time Balance Increase max accumulated balance to 60 hours • Term Two years, Jan 1, 2010 through Dec 31, 2011 • Holidays Language clarified to address holidays on weekends