12-14-10 City of La Porte Meet and Confer Committee Meeting minutes

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THE CITY OF LA PORTE MEET & CONFER COMMITTEE MET THE 14TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 2010, 4:00 P.M. AT CITY HALL, COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 604 WESTFAIRMONTPARKWAY, LAPORTE, TEXAS. 1. CALL TO ORDER The meeting was called to order at 4:05 p.m. In attendance were committee members: Ken Adcox, Chief of Police, Heather Weger, Human Resources Manager, Matt Novosad, Patrol Officer - LPPOA President, Matt Daeumer, Patrol Lieutenant - LPPOA Member, Marcus Upchurch, Support Services Sergeant - LPPOA Member, Sherman Moore - PAR Officer - LPPOA Member Other attendees included Tom Barby, Representative from CLEAT. 2. Minutes from December 2, 2010 were reviewed and approved. 3. BEGIN DISCUSSIONS ON ITEMS PROPOSED BY THE LA PORTE POLICE OFFICER'S ASSOICATION AND THE CITY OF LA PORTE LPPOA PROPOSALS (Outlined Italicized Items from LPPOA Proposal) 1. Pav Scale a) Shrink Step Scale i. Patrol to 10 year top out ii. Sergeant Lieutenants to 5 year top out b) Compare Markets for overall salary and certificate pay c) If market comparable receive COLA A collapsed pay scale was reviewed. The Chief advised that, according to calculations done by Finance, collapsing the steps from 12 to 10 by simply keeping the same starting and ending salaries and redistributing the difference between each of the remaining steps would result in an overall cost to the City of approximately $159,000 a year. The LPPO A advised their idea was to start at step #2, dropping bottom 2 steps on the officer scale, and creating a bigger gap between pay steps on the sergeant and lieutenant scales. An estimated cost will be presented for this in the future. Chief will ask Finance to calculate for the next meeting, however, warned that this method would likely result in even higher costs. Salary surveys are still pending. Pearland and Texas City figures were not obtained. Ms. Weger will see if she can look on the CLEAT website to obtain the figures. LPPOA spoke about looking at the possibility of implementing pay changes through multiple years via contract.