TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Christine Bricen?o, Director of Human Resources
REPORT BY: Joy Cadiz, Staff Services Manager
SUBJECT: Resolutions Approving the PSE and PSE Supervisory Memoranda of Understanding 2024-2027, and Salary Increases in Fiscal Years 2024-2025, 2025-2026, and 2026-2027 for PSE, PSE Supervisory, Management Non-Classified, Management Classified, and Confidential Employees
RECOMMENDATION
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Adopt Resolutions approving the Memoranda of Understanding with the Napa Association of Public Employees (PSE) and PSE Supervisory Units for the term July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2027, and salary increases in fiscal years 2024-2025, 2025-2026, and 2026-2027 for PSE, PSE Supervisory, unrepresented Management Non-Classified, Management Classified, and Confidential employees, effective June 22, 2024. (Fiscal Impact: $9.65 million; 50% General Fund and 50% Other Operating Funds; Not Budgeted; Discretionary)
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BACKGROUND
SEIU Local 1021, the Union representing approximately 975 of the County's employees in the PSE and PSE Supervisory Units, has Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) expiring on June 30, 2024. Following approximately four months of negotiations, County and Union bargaining teams reached tentative agreements on the terms of successor MOUs with a three-year term effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2027, with Union ratification occurring on or around June 4, 2024.
Highlights of the new MOUs include:
* 11% cost of living adjustment over three years (4%, 3.5%, and 3.5%).
* Adds a Winter Recess (the four business days between December 25 and January 1 holidays) which provides 32 hours of Winter Paid Time Off placed in qualified employee's leave bank by December 23 of each year.
* Adds the second Monday in October (Indigenous People's Day) as a County recognized holiday to the MOUs.
* Any decreases in employer contribution rate will reduce the employee cost sharing rate up to a maximum of 0.5% annually, which when applied shall become the n...
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