CITY OF SEATTLE

ORDINANCE __________________

COUNCIL BILL __________________

AN ORDINANCE relating to City employment; authorizing the execution of a memorandum of understanding between the City of Seattle and the Seattle Parking Enforcement Officers' Guild; providing payment therefor; and ratifying and confirming prior acts.

WHEREAS, a collective bargaining agreement providing for the wages, benefits and other conditions of employment between the City and the Seattle Parking Enforcement Officers' Guild expired on December 31, 2013; and

WHEREAS, employees represented by the Seattle Parking Enforcement Officers' Guild continued to work after December 31, 2013 on condition that the subject of their wages, benefits and other conditions of employment continued to be negotiated during collective bargaining; and

WHEREAS, collective bargaining has led to an agreement between the City and the Seattle Parking Enforcement Officers' Guild concerning wages, benefits and other conditions of employment;

NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF SEATTLE AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1. As requested by the Personnel Director and recommended by the Mayor, the Mayor is authorized on behalf of the City to execute a memorandum of understanding between the City and the Seattle Parking Enforcement Officers' Guild effective January 1, 2014 through December 31, 2014, substantially in the form attached to this ordinance as Attachment 1 and identified as "Memorandum of Understanding by and between the City of Seattle and the Seattle Parking Enforcement Officers' Guild."

Section 2. The heads of employing units and/or their designees are authorized to use unexpended and unencumbered salary funds accumulating in their budgets to pay the compensation authorized in the attached collective bargaining agreement.

Section 3. Any act consistent with the authority and prior to the effective date of this ordinance is ratified and confirmed.

Section 4. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force 30 days after its approval by the Mayor, but if not approved and returned by the Mayor within ten days after presentation, it shall take effect as provided by Seattle Municipal Code Section 1.04.020.

Passed by the City Council the ____ day of ________________________, 2014, and signed by me in open session in authentication of its passage this

_____ day of ___________________, 2014.

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President __________of the City Council

Approved by me this ____ day of _____________________, 2014.

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Edward B. Murray, Mayor

Filed by me this ____ day of __________________________, 2014.

____________________________________

Monica Martinez Simmons, City Clerk

(Seal)

Attachments:

Attachment 1: Memorandum of Understanding by and between the City of Seattle and the Seattle Parking Enforcement Officers' Guild

Susan Coskey/David Bracilano/sb PER PEO MOU 2014 July 8, 2014 Version #1

Attachment 1: Memorandum of Understanding by and between the City of Seattle and the Seattle Parking Enforcement Officers' Guild MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

By and between

THE CITY OF SEATTLE

and the

SEATTLE PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS' GUILD

For the time period of January 1, 2014 through December 31, 2014

1) Effective January 1, 2014, the wages of all job titles represented by the Seattle Parking Enforcement Officers' Guild shall be increased by 100% of the annual average growth rate of the bi-monthly Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton Area Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) for the period August 2011 through June 2012 to the period August 2012 through June 2013, provided however, that said percentage increase shall not be less than zero.

2) On or after September 1, 2014, the parties agree that they may engage in bargaining over additional wage adjustments with an effective date subject to negotiations, except that in no event shall such date be earlier than January 1, 2014.

3) All other terms and conditions of the Parties' Collective Bargaining Agreement that expired on December 31, 2013 shall continue through December 31, 2014, except as specified herein.

4) Effective upon signing of this Memorandum of Understanding, the parties agree that they may engage in bargaining over changes to the City's Retirement System, provided, however, that in no event shall the implementation of changes to the City's Retirement system begin prior to January 1, 2015.

5) The City has the right to implement a "minimum wage" in calendar year 2014. The appropriate representatives from the City, or their designees, who are responsible for the consideration and implementation of a "minimum wage" for City employees will meet with a representative of SPEOG, if SPEOG so requests, to discuss the issue. These discussions are informational only and are not to be considered negotiations.

6) This Memorandum of Understanding shall become effective upon signature.

7) Following ratification of this Memorandum of Understanding, the parties agree to immediately meet and negotiate in good faith regarding the issues spoken to in the parties' 2012 Shift Selection Memorandum of Agreement.

SIGNED this _______ day of ______________ 2014.

Executed under the Authority

of Ordinance No. _________

FOR THE CITY OF SEATTLE

________________________ ___________________________

Edward B. Murray, Susan L. Coskey,

Mayor Personnel Director

________________________

David Bracilano,

Labor Relations Director

FOR THE SEATTLE PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS' GUILD

_______________________

Aaron Paston,

President

Susan Coskey/David Bracilano PER PEO MOU 2014 ORD ATT 1 July 21, 2014 Version #1