12-02-10 City of La Porte Meet and Confer Committee Meeting minutes

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e) It was agreed that all previously established rules regarding pay status, communications, meeting location, Agenda items and dialogue will be adhered to. Rules from the March 25, 2008 are as follows: "a) Determine Spokesman for City and La Porte Police Officers Association to ensure that the meetings are orderly and that members will not speak out of place. Ron Bottoms was designated as the Spokesman for the City of La Porte. Matt Novosad was designated as the Spokesman for the La Porte Police Officers Association. b) Officers are considered off duty while attending meetings and will not be in a pay status with the City. They will be allowed to attend the meetings and make arrangements to ensure they are not short hours for the pay period to attend the meeting. c) All communications with the media must be on a "joint" basis. d) There should be no communications regarding the meetings with City Council and City Staff, not limited to the police personnel. Items that are agreed upon by consensus will be taken to City Council. e) The meeting will be held on an as needed basis at City Hall Council Chambers unless unavailable. f) Items to be posted on the Agenda will be agreed upon beforehand. g) The meetings will be held with an open dialogue. " 4. RECEIVE THE LA PORTE POLICE OFFICER'S ASSOCIATION LIST OF PROPOSED DISCUSSION ITEMS FOR FUTURE MEETINGS a) Pay Scales - The LPPOA is looking at shrinking the pay scale to include fewer pay steps. Police Officer's scale would go from 12 steps to 10, Sergeants and Lieutenants would go from 10 steps to 5. The LPPOA is still obtaining information on salaries and certificate pay. Heather Weger has obtained information and will get that information to the LPPOA. The same Cities will be utilized as in the previous negotiations. The LPPOA is just looking to be market comparable, possibly a cost of living adjustment will be looked at. b) Overtime - The LPPOA would like for the City to consider paying double time and a half for officers who work "forced overtime" (in cases such as an employee is scheduled to be off at 1 :00 pm and is told they will have to work to cover a shift). They would also like overtime to be considered after working 8 hours in a day versus after 40 hours in a week. c) Force Flex Time - Chief asked for clarification, and the LPPOA used the example of the DWI task force night where officers were told to flex their time versus receive overtime. The Chief advised that in that case it would be considered rescheduling and that is the city must retain the right to schedule resources in order to meet operational Meet and Confer Meeting December 2, 2010 2lPage