Recommendation
A. Approve and authorize the City Manager to execute an Amended and Restated Agreement No. 2018-037.2, the Memorandum of Understanding with SEIU, Local 620 Regarding the Goleta General Employees Bargaining Unit; and
B. Approve and authorize the City Manager to execute an Amended and Restated Agreement No. 2018-038.2, the Memorandum of Understanding with SEIU, Local 620 Regarding the Goleta Miscellaneous Employees Bargaining Unit; and
C. Receive an oral report, read by the Clerk, summarizing a recommendation for a final action on the salaries, salary schedules, or compensation paid in the form of fringe benefits to City executive employees, as follows:
1. For all executive management except the City Manager: a one-time payment equal to the value of 3% on current salaries retroactive to the first pay period beginning January 1, 2024; salaries adjusted to market rate effective the first pay period following approval of this Agreement, followed by a 3% increase; a 3% salary increase effective January 1, 2025; a 3% increase effective January 1, 2026; a 3% increase effective January 1, 2027; additional potential salary increases of up to 1% on January 1, 2026 and January 1, 2027, depending on the increase in the Consumer Price Index in October of the previous year; effective the first pay period following January 1, 2025, a match of up to $25 per pay period to the employee’s deferred compensation account; and
2. For all executive managers including the City Manager: after rounding up to $1,400 a month, and additional $60 per month increase to the Flexible Benefit Plan Allowance effective the pay period following approval of this Agreement; and on January 1, 2025, January 1, 2026, and January 1, 2027, employees enrolled in a medical plan for themselves only will receive an additional $50 a month, employees enrolled with one dependent will receive an additional $80 a month, and employees with more than one dependent will receive an additional $90 a month; and
D. Adopt Resolution No. 24-__ entitled “A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Goleta, California Amending the City of Goleta Salary Schedule and Classification Plan for Fiscal Years 2023/24 and 2024/25, Amending the Personnel Rules, and Approving Certain Future Salary and Fringe Benefit Increases.”
Staff
Jaime A. Valdez, Assistant City Manager
Jennifer Jennings, Human Resources-Risk Manager