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Home My WebLink About01-23-1973 City Council Minutes SARATOGA CITY COUNCIL MINUTES ~'IME: January 23, 1973 - 7:30 P.M~ PLACE: Saratoga City Council Chambers, 13777 'Frditvale Ave., Saratoga, California TYPE: AdjoUrned Regular M~eting I. ORGANIZATION ... .- A. Roll Call Present: Councilmen Kraus, Dwye~, Diridon, Smith and Bridges Absent: None : .. II. PETITIONS, ORDINANCES AND FORMAL RESOLUTIONS A. RESOLUTION NO. 85~9~8 A Resolution Amending ResolutionlNo. 85-9 ana 85-9.4, Revising Salary Ranges, Personnel Policy and Fringe-B'enefits :for .Employees of-.the. City'of Saratoga City Manager Robert F. Beyer-explained that this resolution pertains to two categories of city employees -- manag'ement employees and non-management employees. He explained th'aE the first diScusSion this evening would pertain to non-managemen~t employee's. M~.CBe~'e~-~.':indfcated that up through TuesdayS. January 2nd, he and the Salary Committee had been discussing a twelve-month proposal with the hope of signing a Memorandum of Understanding' however, · as not been~J~e~.due .t~..Jh~t~,the~:~i_t~ Manag~r~ thzs h-~---j~ ~ The City Manager indicated that On January 9th, the employees' representatives submitted an eighteen-month proposai. This proposal was r.eviewed,~ and he submitted an answer to it, which was basically an expansion of the original twelve-month proposal. He explained that the latter proposal was eptabl'e~-t~7~'-~'~pl~Y~e"'~'~f~t~o'~h and after Vevi~f~g~e's~'wwo' ~{nt's,'~& city Manager felt [h~a_~t~he could not mod'f the proposal~3nd advised that proposa~ ~or adoption by the City Council.. The City Man~ager o.~'li"~ed the 7~rc_~'~of increas~_'with reg~G~s~la~y,. ,~'~1 as thei~crease ri~ benefitS~ i~d'i~d%~i~n~overt-ime"com- ' peE~E'i~n~- ~ihi~i~-~ut'- pay~hd ~h~f~R'pys. Mayor Smith asked for any co~ents from the 'audieRce. DaVid Leahy, Attorney representing the Employee's ~sociation, indicated that the two areas of disagreement between the City Manager .and the ~sociation in,~the eighteen-month proposal are as. follows: 1) One-percent increase for the Maintenance Man Iposition; 2) &oSt of living increase would be based on the Consumer ~ice Index for one-half veer. He pointed out that {t was the ~sociation's feeling that the~livf~g~i~e~S~Y~'B~based on the Cons~er Price Index for a full'[~f~2~[' pe~iga, ~'~i~B', 'that the Maintenance Man position be given thi~ cost of living increase. ~. Leahy indicated .that one of the other points .that made the e~ghteen-month proposal' attractive wasthe increase in health insurance. He pointed out that the resolutioh which hap been presented~ to the Co~cil thi~ evening does not. , include. a provision for any change in~ overtime compenpation for a n~ber of - cl~asses in the professional +and technical positions, whereas the eighteen- month proposal tnclude~ a provxs~on f~r changing the overtime compensation to equal thdse benefits of other employe~s. Mr. Leahy stated that what he would like to see the Council do this evening is not to take any action, but ~irect~[he City Manager to meet again with the Salary Committee and come back w{th a proposal which is jointly agreeable to the employees and the City Manageri In.regard to,~the_c~st'!of tivihg increase, Mr. Beyer '~ndicated that the adjustment for the cost of living to be made a year from now for the ~rior six months would be made on the basisof the previous six months. Mr. Leahy stated that the 'six-month cost of living ihcrease doesn't make sense in that what the Council would be doing is picking up a compensation package which is going to be changed within the next six months. He felt that to dse the cost of living .was fine, but to cut it in half does not make sense. Bill Fritz, Business Representative o~ the' A.F.L.C.I.O., commented that in December, 1972, Local 101 requested r~cognition for the purpose of meeting and confering in good faith on behalf~ of .six employees in the Public Works Department in the Maintenance Man ser~es. The City Manager 4ha~?~d~.n~ied this request and pointed out that the individual employees .could epr sent them- selves. Mr. Fritz stated that last Friday.two of these employees had met with the City Manager, and after the City Manager had listened to these employees,. he announced that they would receive ~what the Association is receiving and nothing more. Mr. Fritz felt that th~s was bargaining in bad faith, parti- cularly since what the management team was proposing was. only a 1 percent increase for the Maintenance Man II. He pointed out that the Consumer Price ~a?~r~47-~lh~eL"~t'S~b~r'D Mr. Fritz stated that he would like to j~..'~L~[y~i~equ~s~' th~'~he Council not take action on this resolution tonight. The City Manager indicated that when he had originally presented his counter- proposal and until just recently, it' was his understanding that the 1 percent increase was acceptable. It wasn't until he and the Salary Committee started talking about the eighteen-month proposal that they'started discussing the Maintenance Man s~lary. The City Manager indicated his proposal, he felt the increase was reasonable.based on competitive positions. He stated. that it wasn't until last Friday that these two maintenance employees came in and presented him with a letter with "contract demands" pertaining to the six employees involved, and this was the first time he had received any information particularly about what these six people wanted. Mr. Fritz commented that he doesn't ~nderstand how the City Manager can say the salaries are competitive for the .Maintenance Man position. He again stated that the cost of living has gone up 4%, and it is his feeling that we have to look at the needs of these men. Larry McLeod~5 Maintenance Man I, asked if anyone had mentioned how long the negotiations were going .to be going 0~J 'The_~!~y__Mana~ger_~pl~J_~_h~a_t_a_t~the meeting in September, at which the ~pre~tatives of the Sai~ry Committee wFfe present, he had indicated that they Wo~ld tr~'~o ar"riVe'~rM~g~dn~f Understanding by January. Mayor Smith stated that as he understands the eighteen-month proposal with regard to the cost of living based on the Consumer Price Index, there would be an increase, effective January, 1974, for a six-month period, which would be determined in the cost of living for the six-month period between July, 1973 to January 1974. May~r ~mith asked if the City Manager~had an a~erage increas'e for the !twelve-month proposal. i~r. Beyer replied that the twelve-month proposal~ ba~ed on salaries and benefits is 5.59%. Councilman Dwyer asked if the beRefits for the Maintenance Man were included in th~ 1% increase or if they were ab6ve that figure. The City Manager re- .plied that th~bene£its were on top of this 1%, which would amount to an Overall 3%. It.was moved by CoUncilman Bridges ~hat this matter be~coDtinu~d to January 30th and the C~ty Manager be directed to again meet with the Salary Committee in the hopes of reaching an zagreement. Councilman Kraus seconded the motion, and it was ~carried. Th'e adjourned meeting will resume on Tuesday, January 30, 1973, in .t~e City Council Chambers. The Adjourned Regular Meeting was adj6urned to. a Co~mi~!~'~he Whole Meeting at 8:30 P~M~ __ · spec~ submitted, City ~rk