07-21-2020 - AGENDA ITEM 12 CONSIDERATION OF A SIDE LETTER OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE WEST COVINA CONFIDENTIAL EMPLOYEES’ ASSOCIATION (WCCEA)11/30/2020
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AGENDA ITEM NO. 12
DATE: July 21, 2020
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: David Carmany
City Manager
AGENDA STAFF REPORT
City of West Covina I Office of the City Manager
SUBJECT: CONSIDERATION OF A SIDE LETTER OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY
AND THE WEST COVINA CONFIDENTIAL EMPLOYEES' ASSOCIATION (WCCEA)
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the City Council adopt the following Resolution:
RESOLUTION NO.2020-81 - A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST
COVINA, CALIFORNIA ADOPTING THE SIDE LETTER OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE
CITY AND THE WEST COVINA CONFIDENTIAL EMPLOYEES' ASSOCIATION (WCCEA)
BACKGROUND:
The West Covina Confidential Employees Association (WCCEA) represented by City Employees' Association
(CEA) Memorandum of Understanding expired on June 30, 2019. The City and the West Covina Confidential
employee association met and conferred on eleven (11) occasions and have reached a side letter of agreement.
DISCUSSION:
The City and the Confidential Employees Association have memorialized a side letter of agreement. The terms
and conditions agreed upon address personnel -related cost -saving measures immediately needed as a result of
the City's dire financial condition, as declared on May 19, 2020.
Prepared by: Helen Tran, HR/Risk Management Director
Fiscal Impact
FISCAL IMPACT:
Anticipated savings is approximately $47,000 of benefits reduction suspension.
Attachments
Attachment No. 1 - Resolution 2020-81
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CITY Achieve Fiscal Sustainability and Financial Stability
COUNCIL
GOALS &
OBJECTIVES:
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ATTACHMENT NO. 1
RESOLUTION NO. 2020-81
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING THE SIDE
LETTER OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE
WEST COVINA CONFIDENTIAL EMPLOYEES'
ASSOCIATION (WCCEA) REPRESENTED BY CITY
EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATES (CEA)
WHEREAS, on May 19, 2020, the City Council declared a fiscal emergency
through the adoption of Resolution No. 2020-46; and
WHEREAS, in declaring the fiscal emergency, the City Council directed the City
Manager to take any and all actions necessary to address the fiscal emergency, including,
but not limited to, measures relating to personnel and benefit costs, operations, and
reductions in service levels, and reviewing and negotiating changes to labor agreements,
service agreements, and franchise agreements, to the extent permitted by law; and
WHEREAS, the City of West Covina, hereinafter referred to as the "City," and the
West Covina Confidential Employees' Association represented by City Employees
Associates, have met and conferred in accordance with the Meyers -Mi lias-Brown Act and
Government Code § 3500; and
WHEREAS, the City and the West Covina Confidential Employees' Association
represented by City Employees Associates have memorialized the agreement in awritten
side letter of agreement, which is attached hereto as Exhibit "A".
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA,
CALIFORNIA DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The Side Letter of Agreement, attached hereto as Exhibit "A," is
hereby approved.
SECTION 2. The City Manager is authorized to sign the Side Letter of Agreement.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this resolution and shall
enter the same in the book of original resolutions and it shall become effective
immediately.
APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 21 st day of July, 2020.
Tony Wu
Mayor
ATTACHMENT NO. 1
APPROVED AS TO FORM ATTEST
Thomas P. Duarte Lisa Sherrick
City Attorney Assistant City Clerk
I, LISA SHERRICK, ASSISTANT CITY CLERK of the City of West Covina,
California, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution No. 2020-81 was duly adopted
by the City Council of the City of West Covina, California, at a regular meeting thereof
held on the 21 st day of July, 2020, by the following vote of the City Council:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
Lisa Sherrick
Assistant City Clerk
EXHIBIT A
SIDE LETTER OF AGREEMENT