05-23-12 Meet and Confer Committee Meeting

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he sincerely appreciates the fair and collaborative approach the bargaining team as consistently demonstrated. The Chief also commented that he feels the existing contract has served both the City and the Police Association well as demonstrated by the fact that not a single issue or grievance has arisen on either side over the last three years. D) The Chief stated that, other than salary discussions, there were two items that the City would like to discuss during the current negotiations. The first involves the Citywide Emergency Pay Policy, which the City is in the process of up -dating. The policy is designed to provide essential persomiel with special compensation during large-scale emergencies, however, since it includes language stating that "all other pay policies are suspended" (such as compensatory time, since that time is not reimbursable to the City) and many of these items are covered within the Meet and Confer contract, formal acknowledgement and acceptance of the Emergency Pay policy should have to be included in the Meet and Confer contract if it were to be made applicable to Civil Service employees. The Chief made it clear, however, that the revised Emergency Pay Policy has yet to be accepted and approved by Council. Copies of the draft proposal were simply being provided at this time as, should the policy be accepted by City Council, it would need to be discussed during contract negotiations. E) The second item the City wou[d like to discuss was seniority points as applied to promotional exams. The Chief would like to see a provision in the contract that indicates that an officer must pass the promotional test in order to receive seniority points and thus be placed on the promotional list. Chief indicated that this is important should the City and/or Police Department ever be challenged about someone not passing the tests and/or being qualified to supervise personnel. He is worried about the potential liability of promoting an officer who actually failed the promotional exam. F) The City will continue to work on pay charts to see what the overall budget impact will be for implementation and bringing numbers next meeting. If numbers are obtained prior to next meeting they will be forwarded to LPPOA for review ahead of time. G) Within the next contract, both sides would also like to see wording included making it a multi -year contract, with the only provision being incremental pay adjustments. Verbiage will be looked at for inclusion within the contract. 4. SET TIME AND DATE OF NEXT MEETING The next meeting will be set for June 20"' at 3:00 p.m 5. COMMITTEE COMMENTS None. 6. ADJOURNMENT Meeting was adjourned at 4:05 p.m. APPROVED ON THIS THE 2b DAY OF -70 A -A. , 2012.