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<br /> <br />Item 6.2. <br /> <br />MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />TO: <br /> <br />Mayor and City Council <br /> <br />DATE: <br /> <br />Pat Klaers, City Ad~ <br />December 20, 2004 <br /> <br />FROM: <br /> <br />SUBJECT: <br /> <br />Consider 2005-2007 Local 271 Union Contl1act-Police Sergeants <br /> <br />City representatives met with the Police Sergeants Union - Local 271 representatives twice in <br />November to negotiate a union contract. There are currently five sergeants on staff in the Police <br />Department. The majority of these meetings dealt with the issue of having the sergeants move from <br />exempt to non-exempt status. One of the big exempt/non-exempt issues is overtime pay. <br /> <br />When the first union contract for the sergeants was approved in 2000, it included an additional 6% <br />increase for having the sergeants move to the exempt status. Accor!:1ingly, to move the sergeants <br />back to non-exempt, it was understood that some of this 6% had to be "given back" to the city. City <br />representatives did not see the need to obtain the entire 6% back as in 2004 a mid-year wage <br />adjustment was provided by the City Council to all non-union employees. Additionally, some of this <br />mid-year wage adjustment was then factored into the union contract for the police officers. The <br />proposed contract shows a total of a 6% wage increase over three years, whereby the typical total <br />would be 9% over three years. <br /> <br />In addition to dealing with the change from exempt to non-exempt status and the mid-year wage <br />adjustment that the City Council authorized for non-union city eml!'loyees, the city was also <br />concerned about how the sergeants pay fits in between the patrol officers and the captain; and, from <br />an external point of view, how the Elk River sergeants pay matches up with neighboring <br />communities. <br /> <br />Overall, I believe that the proposed wages in the three-year agreement is appropriate from both an <br />internal and external point of view. The wages for the three-year contract and all of the other <br />proposed union contract changes are identified in the attached metj:1.o dated December 7, 2004 from <br />Ann Antonsen who is the city's representative from Labor Relations Associates, Ine. Additional <br />comments on the contract are as follows: <br /> <br />#3 Overtime - same language as in the patrol contract <br />#4 Court Time - same language as in patrol contract <br />