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MEMO TO: Mayor and City Council FROM: Clerk -Administrator DATE: April 7, 1983 SUBJECT: LOCAL NO. 49 LOCAL ISSUES PROPOSALS As you may recall, the Master Labor Agreement entered into between the City of Mounds View and I.U.O.E. Local No. 49, dated December 16, 1982, contained Appendix B regarding the Local Addendum which stipulated that all Local Addendums would be extended to June 30, 1983 and that the Master Labor Agreement, as well as Local Addendums, would terminate on that date unless previously agreed to Local Addendums were mutually renewed or extended by agreement of both parties. As a result of that provision, on March 8, 1983 this office received Local Issue Proposals from Mr. Tim Connors, Area Business Representative for Local No. 49, outlining five issues which they wished to discuss during Local Issue negotiations. These proposals were submitted to our Labor Consultant, Cy Smythe, on March 11, 1983 and on April 4th I met with Mr. Smythe and discussed these proposals, along with those issues the City might wish to discuss as part of Local Issues negotiations. Mr. Smythe and I agreed that the following responses from the City ' of Mounds View should be submitted to the five proposals contained in Mr. Connors' March 1st letter. The suggested positions as they relate to the five proposals are as follows: 1. The City presently provides rental uniforms for all Public Works employees, with these rental uniforms not including any jackets. It is suggested that the position of the City in this matter should be that we are already providing adequate uniforms and the provision of winter jackets is beyond the normal. 2. The City presently pays heavy equipment operators hourly salaries for Public Works employees operating our case front end loader or sewer jet rodder. Whenever the City's Mechanic operates these pieces of equipment heavy equipment operator pay is allowed for and to pay heavy equipment operator pay for any other activities of the Mechanic would be outside of the provisions of the Master Labor Agreement and should not be negotiated by the City. 3. All salary provisions are presently included within the Master Labor Agreement between Local No. 49 and the City of Mounds View and the inclusion of bonuses for licensing of water and sewer operators as a Local Issue is not appropriate. Mr. Smythe, however, suggested that if the City wished to ' provide an acknowledgment of an employee's accomplishments in the area of obtaining certification as a water or sewer