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Item No: 07H <br />Meeting Date: April 2, 2007 <br /> Type of Business: Council Business <br /> <br />City of Mounds View Staff Report <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />To: Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />From: Kurt Ulrich, City Administrator <br />Item Title/Subject: Resolution 7056, Approving the 2006 – 2007 Labor Agreement with <br /> the Public Works Collective Bargaining Unit <br /> <br />Background: <br /> <br />The Public Works membership proposed the revised contract provisions at a meeting on <br />March 30, 2007. The contract items are consistent with the Human Resources <br />Committee’s offer, with the exception of the effective date of January 1, 2006 in regard to <br />item 3 below. The Human Resources Committee had agreed to offer an effective date of <br />January 1, 2007. Staff is in the process of calculating the dollar cost of that change and <br />will present that information to the Council on Monday for discussion in executive session. <br /> <br />The Public Works contract is the last of the City’s four contracts to be settled for 2006- <br />2007. <br /> <br />Discussion: <br />1. ARTICLE 27: W ages (same as other City contracts) <br /> January 1, 2006: 3% increase <br /> January 1, 2007: 3% increase <br /> <br />2. ARTICLE 20: Insurance (same as other City contracts) <br /> 2006 Employer Contribution: $685.20 <br /> 2007 Employer Contribution: $732.20 <br /> <br />3. ADD ARTICLE 7.5: Work Schedule <br />Effective January 1, 2006, employees who are called to work prior to the starting <br />time of the shift regularly assigned, due to, but not limited to, performing snow <br />and ice control operations, or due to utility emergencies, weather emergencies, <br />or a cargo spill that creates a hazard, shall be compensated at a preshift <br />premium of $7.00 per hour for the preshift hours worked not to exceed $21.00 <br />per event. When an employee qualifies for both overtime/comp time and preshift <br />premium on the same shift, each hour of preshift pay earned will be eliminated <br />for each hour of overtime/comp time earned.. <br /> <br />4. ARTICLE 23. STANDBY DUTY (adds additional hour of overtime for this duty) <br />23.1 Effective January 1, 2006, EMPLOYEES assigned standby duty for a <br />seven (7) day period shall be compensated at the rate of ten (10) hours of <br />overtime (1 hour per weekday and 2 ½ hour for Saturday and Sunday) . <br />For each holiday that falls within the seven (7) day period, an additional <br />two hours at overtime rates shall be paid. Such standby pay shall be in <br />addition to other compensation the EMPLOYEE is entitled to under this <br />AGREEMENT including call back pay should the EMPLOYEE be required <br />to return to the City to perform emergency work.