Form revised December 4, 2006

FISCAL NOTE FOR NON-CAPITAL PROJECTS

Department:	Contact Person/Phone:	DOF Analyst/Phone:
Personnel	David Bracilano/47874 Sarah Butler/47929	Carolyn Iblings/45211

Legislation Title:

AN ORDINANCE relating to City employment; authorizing the Mayor to sign and/or execute a Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Seattle and the Coalition of City Unions regarding personal holidays; providing non-represented employees additional personal holidays upon completion of a designated amount of City service; and amending the Seattle Municipal Code Section 4.20.190.

· Summary of the Legislation:

The proposed Council Bill authorizes the Mayor to sign and/or execute a Memorandum of Understanding by and between the City and individual Unions which are part of the Coalition of City Unions (“the Coalition”) to be effective through December 31, 2007.  The Memorandum of Understanding amends signatory Unions’ collective bargaining agreements to provide represented employees who have completed eighteen thousand seven hundred and twenty (18,720) hours an additional two (2) personal holidays per year and grandfathers the City’s practice of providing 10-hour holidays to employees on a 4/10 schedule.  The proposed Council Bill also amends the Seattle Municipal Code to provide non-represented employees with the same holiday benefits as Coalition employees.  In 2007, this will affect approximately 2,385 represented employees and 1,364 non-represented employees.

· Background: (Include brief description of the purpose and context of legislation and include record of previous legislation and funding history, if applicable):

The tentative agreement between the City of Seattle and the Coalition that was signed on May 25, 2005 and later authorized by Council under Ordinance No. 121888 provided that the City and the Coalition open their contracts on the sole issue of personal holidays if the 2005 year-end actuarial study of the City’s Retirement System found that the Retirement System’s unfunded actuarial liability did not exceed thirty years.  In mid-2006, the study reported that the City’s Retirement system was at an 18-year unfunded liability.  In June of 2006, the Coalition provided a written demand for negotiations to begin over personal holidays per the re-opener provision, and the parties entered into negotiation.  The City of Seattle’s non-represented employees have historically received equal increases to compensation and benefits as the Coalition.  The proposed Council Bill would provide the City of Seattle’s non-represented employees with the same time-off benefits as the Coalition.

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Indirect costs that may be associated with the provision of additional personal holidays will be absorbed into departments’ 2007 budget.