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Council Meeting Date: 08/19/96
Department ID Number: AS 96-035
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION
SUBMITTED TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS
SUBMITTED BY: MICHAEL T. UBERUAGA, City Administrato4
PREPARED BY: ROBERT J. FRANZ, Deputy City Adminis ra
SUBJECT: SIDE LETTER OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF
HUNTINGTON BEACH AND THE HUNTINGTON BEACH FIRE
ASSOCIATION (HBFA)* �O , q1 � — ?a
Statement of Issue, Funding Source, Recommended Action, Alternative Action(s), Analysis, Environmental Status, Attachment(s)
Statement of Issue: To identify issues of agreement that had been reached during the
1993-94 negotiations, which were not issues at impasse.
Fundinq Source: Funding provided in the 1995-96 budget.
Recommended Action: To approve. Resolution # CrG - 0 adopting the side letter, of
agreement between the City and the HBFA.
Alternative Action(s): To not approve the side letter of agreement and request the parties
renegotiate.
Analysis: The attached side letter of agreement was prepared to memorialize items of
tentative agreement between the City and the HBFA prior to declaring an impasse on a new
Memorandum of Understanding for 1993-94. It is the intent of both the City and HBFA that
these items be incorporated into any future Memorandum of Understanding. To assure that
purpose this side letter has been prepared to include:
1. Compensatory Time - This side letter will authorize staff positions to receive
compensatory time off at the time and one half rate required by existing law.
2. Vacation Accrual - Authorizes current employees to accumulate vacation up to 342
hours, which is equal to 20 shifts.
REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTIRI
MEETING DATE: 08/19/96 DEPARTMENT ID NUMBER: AS 96-035
3. Association Business - Increases the time authorized for Fire Association business
from 375 to 400 with a 150 accrued carry over to the following year.
4 - 6. Fire Controller - Items 4 through 6 pertain to changes involving Fire Controller
special pay and a title change to the Leadworker classification. Although these
changes were agreed to for the applicable period, they would cease on July 1,
1996, the date the City discontinued fire dispatching operations.
7. Uniforms - Moves the language regarding departmental uniforms from the M.O.U. to
Departmental Policy C-2.
8. Pay out of Rank - Allows Paramedic Captains, when working as a Captain, to be
paid as a Paramedic Captain; Paramedic Engineers, when working as Engineers, to
be paid as Paramedic Engineer; and Paramedic Firefighters, when working as a
Firefighter, to be paid as Firefighter except when ordered to work, then paid as
Paramedic Firefighter.
Environmental Status: Does not apply.
Attachment(s):
1. Resolution to adopt Side Letter VLc , 96--"7t0
2. Side Letter between City and HBFA
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RESOLUTION NO. 9 6- 7 0
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
APPROVING AND IMPLEMENTING A SIDE LETTER
OF AGREEMENT WITH THE
HUNTINGTON BEACH FIRE ASSOCIATION
WHEREAS, the City of Huntington Beach ("City") and the Huntington Beach Firefighters
Association ("HBFA") entered into a Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") regarding salaries,
benefits and working conditions, which expired on September 30, 1993; and
The City and the HBFA subsequently met and conferred on a new MOU; and
After protracted negotiations and meetings, an agreement was reached on a number of
amendments to the prior MOU, but an impasse was reached on six (6) issues; and
Both the City's and the HBFA's positions were presented to a hearing officer; Joseph F. Gentile,
who ruled on the six (6) impasse issues on February 17, 1995; and
After additional meetings, the City and the HBFA could not reach a final agreement, and
subsequently, pursuant to City Resolution No. 96-7, the City Council unilaterally adopted as the terms
and conditions of employment for the HBFA recommendations one (1) through five (5) of the hearing
officer; and
In adopting Resolution No. 96-7, the City did not expressly memoralize the amendments to the
prior MOU which the City and HBFA had agreed upon prior to submitting the remaining impasse issues
to the hearing officer; and
The purpose of this Resolution is to restate the terms and conditions of employment of the
HBFA as unilaterally adopted by the City Council pursuant to Resolution No. 96-7;
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NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach does resolve as
follows:
Section 1. On February 5, 1996, pursuant to Resolution No. 96-7, the City Council
unilaterally implemented the terms and conditions of employment for the HBFA. These terms and
conditions of employment are set forth in the following documents:
1. The Memorandum of Understanding with the Huntington Beach
Firefighters Association which expired on September 30, 1993, as amended by the Side Letter of
Agreement with the Huntington Beach Fire Fighters Association, attached hereto as Exhibit A.
2. Recommendations one (1) through five (5) of the hearing officer, which
are attached to City Resolution No. 96-7.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach at a
regular meeting thereof held on the 1 o t h day of A „g„ G 1996.
City Clerk
REVIEWI
ty Administrator
APPROVED:
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Mayor
APPROVED A, Sf% TO FORM:
Cit Attorney
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss:
CITE' OF HUNTINGTON BEACH )
Res. No. 96-70
I, CONNIE BROCKWAY, the duly elected, qualified City Clerk of
the City of Huntington Beach, and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of said
City, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of
the City of Huntington Beach is seven; that the foregoing resolution was passed
and adopted by the affirmative vote of at least a majority of all the members of said
City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on the 19th of August, 1996 by the
following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers: Harman, Leipzig, Bauer, Sullivan, Dettloff,
Green, Garofalo
NOES: Councilmembers: None
ABSENT: Councilmembers: None
The foregoing instrument is a correct
copy of the original on file in this office.
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city �jerk.of the City
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City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the
City Council. of the City of Huntington
Beach, California
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Side Letter of Agreement Between
the City of Huntington Beach and
the Huntington Beach Fire Association (H.B.F.A.)
The purpose of the side letter of agreement is to memorialize those items in which the
City and H.B. F.A. have reached a tentative agreement prior to declaring impasse on a
new Memorandum of Understanding. It is the intent of both the City and H.B.F.A. that
these items be incorporated into any future Memorandum of Understanding between
the City and H.B.F.A..
1. Compensatory Time (p.17, Article VII, Sec D, 2b)
b. Ex Staff Personnel - For all staff personnel positions, in lieu of
compensation by cash payment for overtime as provided in this article, such
employees may, at their option, and with approval of the Fire Chief, be
compensated by compensatory time off at a -straight tom rate an nn hn, ,r fnr
#ter basis time and one half for each overtime hour worked.
[To become effective May 4, 1996]
2. Vacation Accrual (p.32, Article X, Al)
• Vacation allowance shall not be accumulated in excess of three hundred twenty
{32-A) forty two (342) hours.
[To become effective the first pay period following approval of parties.]
3. Association Business (p.35, Article X, A5)
Association Business - During the term of this M.O.U., authorized representatives of
the ASSOCIATION shall be entitled to receive up to a total of three-four hundred
(400) seventy five (3 75) collective hours without any loss of compensation per
contract year to be utilized for lawful ASSOCIATION activities. In addition, up to
one hundred fifty (150) unused hours may be carried forward to the next fiscal year.
4. Title Change (M.O. U.)
Change Fire Controller Leadworker title to Fire Control Shift Supervisor.
5. Special Pay - EMT - Certification (Article V, E3)
Delete Current E.3 EMT I GertifiGa in^ All Fire Controllers and Ciro Gontrnllnr
wear of the+r date of hiFe. Additional GOrnpensa+inn hundred twenty
dollars ($120) per month shall be paid at the torne EMT 1 training begins OF at date
of hire if employee is already r„rreRtly nertified a CHAT 'I
6. Special Pay - EMD Certification (Article V, E 4a and b)
Change E.4 to E.3 and replace. paragraph E.4.a with the following:
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a. All Fire Controllers and Fire Controller Shift Supervisors shall obtain Emergency
Medical Dispatch (EMD) certification within one (1) year of their date of hire.
After receiving EMD certification, Fire Controllers and Fire Controller Shift
Supervisors shall receive monthly one hundred twenty dollars ($120)
compensation as long as their certification remains current.
Revise 4.b as follows:
b. Supervisinq Fire Controller - Supervising Fire Controller who haS n, ,rrent cnnn
works
overtime as Fire Controller or Fire Controller LeadwoFker Shift Supervisor shall
be paid at the premium rate of the position worked plus $1 per hour for current
EMD certification on an hour fnr hour basis
7. Uniforms (Article VI, A)
A. Uniforms Provided by City. Safety and Non -Safety members --The City will
provide safety personnel with daily work uniforms and dress uniforms including
safety shoes and white T-shirts as described in Policy C-2.
8. Pay out of Rank (Article VII. D1b, page 16)
(Add to paragraph D1b) Paramedic Captains, when working as a Captain, will be
paid as a Paramedic Captain. Paramedic Engineers, when working as an
Engineer, will be paid as a Paramedic Engineer. Paramedic Firefighters, when
working as a Firefighter, will be paid as a Firefighter, unless ordered to work and
then will be paid as a Paramedic Firefighter.
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Associati n Representative D to Fire Chief Date
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Personnel Director Date
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