Recommendation to adopt resolution approving Memoranda of Understanding with the Long Beach Lifeguards Association, Long Beach Management Association, Association of Confidential Employees, City Prosecutors Association, and City Attorneys Association.  (Citywide)
They also have some significant savings and givebacks from our employees who recognize the seriousness of the financial issues that we have been facing. And they help us meet the $11 million goal set in the budget. And we will be bringing, hopefully, other contracts to you very soon on September 8th. So I will turn this over to Dana to go through the presentation for number 11. That evening. Honorable Mayor and members of Council, you have before you a proposed memorandum of understanding with the applicable resolution between the city and the following bargaining units. Long Beach Lifeguard Association. City Attorney's Association. City Prosecutors Association. Association of Confidential Employees. And the Long Man at Long Beach Management Association. City management representatives have met with each of the bargaining units to discuss terms for a successor MRU. We have reached a tentative agreement with each of these associations and their members have ratified the agreement. The agreements are now before the Council for Review and Staff recommends Council approval. The major provisions of the IMO use include the following cost of living increases for miscellaneous groups, including attorney's confidential prosecutors and non sworn management up to 8%. General wage increase over four years. And this would include a four year contract term from October 1st, 2019 to September 30th, 2023. Were sworn police and fire management at eight and a half percent. General wage increase over three years in alignment with previously approved police and fire contracts. And the lifeguards with eight and a half percent general wage increase over a three year contract term from October 1st, 2019 to September 30th, 2020 to. The five tentative agreements include a phased in approach for structural wage increases that are in line with the needs of each bargaining unit to remain competitive with other public safety agencies in their respective fields. The tentative agreements also contain key benefits to enhance employees ability to balance work and personal lives. Enhance benefits include the new paid parental leave program, an additional city holiday, short term and long term disability insurance vacation holiday in lieu and personal holiday accrual maximum adjusted to accommodate the city's Long Beach Coast, H.R. system requirements and other benefit adjustments. In recognition of the emergent the emergent financial conditions in uncertain times caused by the COVID 19 pandemic. The associations have agreed to include a various cost labor cost savings measures, as follows. All agreements have a labor cost savings reopen or clause in the event the mayor and city council officially declare an economic emergency . This allows the city to reopen the MCU if the city faces a fiscal hardship. Miscellaneous employees will be furloughed for 26 days during AV y 21 with an alternative option for critical positions on an exception basis. The furloughs represent a one time 10% pay reduction. Lifeguards in Libya may police and fire sworn employees will have enough vacation accrual reduction equivalent to 40 hours for employees when a 40 hour workweek schedule 48 hours for those on a platoon schedule. New pension cost sharing structure that requires classic member sworn employees to contribute an additional 3% of their salary to offset employer portion for Long Beach management employees and an additional 2% for lifeguard employees. The proposed Council resolution will also apply the same proposed salary and benefit terms, including the cost savings measure to the unrepresented management employees. The unrepresented management employees account for approximately 47 employees. The Association of Long Beach Employees, also known as Alba, is the only miscellaneous group with a closed contract currently in place to help generate cost savings and avoid additional layoffs. I'll be agreed to renegotiate their closed contract to participate in a cost savings furloughs by forfeiting their upcoming 1500 dollars ad hoc lump sum payment and taking six days equivalent to 48 hours of furlough time in FY 21. The total cost for these agreements have a combined estimated annual net fiscal impact of 3.6 million in the general fund group and 10.5 million across all funds once completely implemented in f y 24. The total ongoing structural cost increase resulting from the agreements is estimated to be 3.5 million in the general fund and 10.4 million across all funds. It is requested that City Council adopt the attached resolutions approving the EMU and applying the terms to non represented managers. This concludes my presentation and I am available to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. I want to thank you for that presentation and update. Just also want to add a really just the incredible work that has happened at the bargaining table. First and foremost, I want to thank every free employee in this organization that works hard, that deserves a fair wage, and deserve the opportunity to have fair benefits that can take care of their family and their community. Obviously, we have a lot of contracts that have been better that are complete. We have the contracts that are in front of us. And of course, we also know that there are some work ahead with a few other groups, but they're all working hard to get to a resolution. And we're very grateful to all of our employee groups. I also want to thank our team, everyone at h.r. Just really great work including our negotiating team at the table and thanks for getting for the commitment and the shared sacrifice. It's all so involved in these negotiations. So we just wanted to uplift that work and thank everyone. And with that, I want to go ahead and see if there's any council comment. I do have Councilmember Richardson. You, Mr. Mayor, and I'm certainly happy to chime in and make the motion to support this. I want to acknowledge the when you go to the bargaining table, these agreements, they go out to the membership and each of these groups, their membership, ratify these decisions. And I know they didn't make that decision lightly, but it really shows the solidarity across our city during this particular moment, this fiscal and health crisis that we're dealing with here. And that's not lost on us as a city council. Recognize that? We know that we we love our city. We love our employees. And we're going to make sure that we do all we can to protect and protect our city, its fiscal future. So we continue to provide quality public services by our public employees. Thank you so much for your sacrifice. We acknowledge it and I encourage a vote in. I vote by the city council. Thank you. Thank you. Come, Senator Pearce. Thank you. I, too, wanted to thank every single city employee. I know that this is not something that's easy for everybody. The whole U.S. is going through really tough times, but to be able to get to a negotiation, an agreement is a big deal. And I recognize that our 6000 employees, many of them have been reassigned, have done work that wasn't necessarily what they signed up for during this COVID time. And really just want to say how much I appreciate them. Also want to recognize that this council talked a lot about family paid leave for a while. I recognize the additional benefits that are in this package and so I'm very thankful for that as well. I want to thank staff's hard work on that. And I want to thank city management and Tom and the council, because I think all of us have tried to take cuts where we can so that it's being fair and equitable across the entire city. And I really recognize that that might not be required. But it's what this council decided to do and what our city manager is doing. So I appreciate that as well. Thank you. Thank you. Council member Mungo. Thank you. I just wanted to say a special thank you to every member of our staff. The pandemic and the cost of this is not lost on us. And we really appreciate each and every person tightening their belts and that we as a council are also committed to tighten our belts. So thank you for what you've done and know that we stand with you. Thank you. Any public comment, please. Or. There's no public comment on this item. They were going to do a roll call vote. District one. I. District two. I. District three. I. District four. I. District five. I. District six. All right. District seven by district eight. District nine. I. Motion carries. Thank you. Mexicans. Item number nine The police.