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RESOLUTION NO
1575
A RESOLUTION establishing the City Council's objectives
and guidelines to direct the City Manager in the
negotiation of 1984, 1985 and 1986 labor agreements
WHEREAS, the City Council, after reviewing and analyzing the
situation as it exists, finds that the problems affecting the ailing
economy of the region are affecting this city government's ability
to maintain salaries and employee benefits, and
WHEREAS, the City has already made significant reductions
in budget expenditures, and
WHEREAS, further reductions in services and/or personnel will
have to be initiated to make ends meet, and
WHEREAS, the Council has been willing to make concessions
in past years which have resulted in significant cost Increases
in wages and benefits, and
WHEREAS, the cost of living bas been decreasing significantly
in the past year which causes the Council to expect the police
and fire unions to show a willingness to make concessions so that
the successor contracts for 1984 and beyond can be timely re-negotiated
without prolonged and costly collective negotiations, NOW, THEREFORE,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PASCO DO RESOLVE, as follows
Section 1 The Council's policy for collective negotiations
for the successor police and fire agreements is to avoid, however
possible, further sacrificial cuts in levels of municipal service,
especially in the fire and police service, and the Council is seeking
to secure labor agreement settlements with the police and fire
unions that accomplish this purpose
Section 2 The City Council prefers a three-year working
agreement with each of the police and fire bargaining units on
both "language" and "economics"
Section 3 The Council's policy will be to get significant
language and productivity concessions from the unions in return
for which a two percent (2%) increase in the aggregate of the wage
and benefit package will be considered
Section 4 Lacking the receipt of significant concessions
on language and productivity, the Council's policy is a "no increase"
posture on any economic item
Section 5 As part of the settlement package the Council
will expect concessions to modify the medical/dental programs so
as to reduce or stabilize the rapidly rising costs of these benefit
programs
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Section 6 The Council seeks to complete collective negotiations
with the police and fire unions by the end of July, 1983, so that
the preliminary operating budgets for 1984 for the police and fire
departments may be prepared to reflect the settled terms of the
respective labor agreements
PA SEP by the City Council of the City of Pasco this
day of , 1983, at Pasco, Washington
ATTEST
APPROVED AS TO FORM
Greg A rubstello, City Attorney
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