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May 31, 1977 The following is a current list of requests from the Officers presented by the Committee: (8) (9) (10)Possibility of the City paying a portion of the officer's phone officers are required to have telephones. (ll)A higher level of medical coverage for those employees wishing (1) Parking Detective's and other police cars in the City Motor Pool rather than in the P~rking Garage. (2) Increase of special assignment pay from $5 to $6 per hour. (3) Make the gun allowance a part of the base pay rather than a special add-on. (4) Increase for clothing allowance from $35 to $50 per month. Also, that payment be made on a monthly or at least a more frequent basis than every 6 months. (5) Assistance from the City to get better rates for the cleaning of unif6rms for the uniformed officers. (6) Request the City return to unlimited sick leave for uniformed personnel. (7) Guaranteed protection under Workmen's Compensation for officers injured on special duty assignments, although not specifically being paid by the City. A 5% increase in pay for all police officers. Individual police cars for all officers. bill since all to purchase it. This completes the primary issues that have been discussed with the police personnel throughout the course of the year. In response to the discussions and the requests, we have taken action in certain areas, have indicated that we would continue to analyze certain areas for possible solutions; and, indicated those areas in which we did not intend to take any action or make any recommendation. In regard to the parking, we did make an offer to provide parking that would be at a reduced rate to the individual officer. The 5% pay increase has been recommended to be effective September 1, 1977. Also, we are proposing in response to the clothing allowance request that payments be made on a quarterly basis rather than on a semi- annual basis; but, not in advance or on a monthly basis. Areas that we are currently working on in order to arrive at solutions include assistance in obtaining better rates for uniform cleaning, a policy on the administration of special assignment pay, and the higher level of medical coverage for employee participation only. FIRE FIGHTERS The main issue discussed with the Fire Department Committee was the reclassification and addtional Fire Department ranks which was resolved by the actions taken by the City at the close of the 1976 Fiscal Year. The main issue of discussion with the Fire Department personne this year was the impact of in-grade progressions on Firefighter ranks, specifically on short service officers who were promoted. We had a lengthy discussion explaining in considerable detail the planning and effort that went into the establishment of the in-grade progression provision in the City Pay Plan. On September 2, 1976, we met with a group of 6 Firefighters, who were the individuals that were impacted by the 1975 grade increase coupled with the implementation of in-grade progression. We advised that their individual cases because of their specific service dates relative to shorter service employees were currently under review. We later took action to realign those persons with 1973 and 1974 service dates which resolved the majority of the problems outlined by the Committee. Om September 27, 1977, there was a meeting on the specific subject of officers who were supervising employees who were receiving a higher rate of pay than the supervisor. In their opinion this was a £orm of penalty for outstanding officers who were promoted with relative she service. Their recommendation for correcting this would be to adopt a procedure of promoting employees'directly to the last step in their new classification, or review each individual pro~ tion so that each officer being promoted would be placed in a step providing higher pay than any employee that he supervises. We could offer-these officers little encouragement on this particular request, but we did point out the following: The inequities that applied to the uniform services as a result of a combination of their grade increase and the implementation of in-grade progression had basically been.eliminated by individual pay adjusme~ts. However, there was no intent to apply this to the higher ranks. (2) The position of the Firefighters was not unique to the Fire Department within the City. Numerous examples can be sited where employees in lower grades with longer service are being supervised by personnel making less money than they are. The trade-off here is obviously the potential of the supervisor to ultimately obtain a higher rate of pay based on his higher grade, and his ultimate accumulation of longc service. No other Meet and Discuss sessions were held either indivdually or with employee groups. A meeting has been scheduled for May 24tk.with Social Services Department supervisory personnel to discuss the proper procedures in dealing with the recently organized Social Services per- sonnel. Mr. Ken Kee, the Personnel Director, and Mr. Gordon Tayloe, the City Attorney, will be present at this meeting. However, as of this writing I have not received a report on this particular session. There are no additional meetings However, the administration is always under the Meet and Discuss resolution; will be scheduled immediately." anticipated between now and the end of the budget proces~ available to meet with employees or employee groups and, should any unexpected developments occur meetings On motion of Mr. Early and seconded by Mr. Elliott, the following ordinance was adopted on first and final reading, an& by the £ollowing vote: rt r