AN ORDINANCE relating to City employment; authorizing the execution of a memorandum of understanding between The City of Seattle and certain City unions; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
Record board of the City Council? Agenda Item one Council Bill 120242 An ordinance relating to City Employment authorizing the execution of a memorandum of understanding between the City of Seattle, certain city unions, and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts. Thank you so much. I move to pass Council Bill 120242. Is there a second? Okay. Thank you so much. It's been moved and seconded to pass the bill as sponsor of the bill. I'll address it first and then I'll open up the floor to any additional comments. Colleagues Items one, two and three. On the agenda are council bills 120242120243 and 120244, which all stem from the work of the Labor Relations Policy Committee and related to 2022 wages for represented and non represented city employees. These three bills are interrelated and so some of my comments will apply to all of the three all three bills rather than each one individually. Specifically related to Council Bill 120242. This bill would authorize the execution of a memorandum of understanding between the City of Seattle and certain city unions, including the Coalition of City Unions, which modifies certain city employees terms and conditions of employment. The memorandum of understanding between the City and the Coalition would last from January 1st, 2022 through January 31st, 2022, and would cover approximately 6028, regularly appointed and temporary city employees represented by the Coalition. The key terms of the Memorandum of Understanding include a 4% area wage income increase for eligible employees, the establishment of two new paid city holidays, Juneteenth, which is June 19, and Indigenous Peoples Day, which is the second Monday in October. And the the additional term of the Memorandum of Understanding also includes an agreement on a collaborative effort to conduct a market wage study to review the city's approach to its compensation philosophy. Because the Budget Office estimates you. Guys feel like in year seven. Let's hold on, Judy. All right. That's okay. Go ahead and meet yourself and I'll continue. Thank you so much. Okay. The city budget office estimates that the aggregate cost of wages, including other wage related items authorized by separately by other legislation, would be about $37 million in 2022. This estimate would cover wage adjustments for about 10,500 employees, including represented employees in the coalition and coalition unions and most non represented employees, central staff funds that there are sufficient funds to cover the costs of the annual wage increases in planning reserves. As a matter of practice and the city's financial and labor relations policy, these funds are held in planning reserves so that when the city negotiates union contracts, there are funds available to pay for the changes within the parameters authorized by the Labor Relations Policy Committee, a committee in which five council members sit on in conjunction with representatives of the executive, including the director of the City Budget Office. The executive provides notice of the planning reserves in the six year financial plans included with the proposed budget that the City Council deliberates, analyzes, evaluates and votes on yearly. Again, all three of these Council bills that we are voting on today approve labor relations policies and fiscal impacts related to those policies that were established in the parameters set by the Labor Relations Policy Committee. And I urge my colleagues to support the passage of this legislation and the next two bills which we will vote on individually . Are there any additional comments on agenda item one? Council Bill 120242. Hearing, no additional comments will occur. Please call the role and the passage of Council. Bill 120242. Agenda Item one. Lewis. Yes. Morales. US must get up. Hi, Petersen. Hi. Strauss. Yes. Verbal? Yes. Whereas I council President Gonzales. I eight in favor and unopposed. Thank you so much. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please? If it's my signature to the legislation on my behalf. Will the court please read item two into the record? Agenda Item two Council Bill 120243 An ordinance relating to city employment providing salary increases for 2022 for certain non represented city job titles and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.