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Director of Human Resources and the Chief Administrative Officer recommending the Board:
1) Approve the establishment of a new unrepresented bargaining unit entitled BD;
2) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 237-2019 to move the Supervisor-Board of Supervisors classification from the EL bargaining unit to the newly established, unrepresented Board of Supervisors bargaining unit of BD;
3) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 238-2019 for:
a) The modification of established bargaining units to dissolve the Deputy County Counsel (CC) bargaining unit;
b) Reallocate the classifications currently represented by the CC unit into the Unrepresented Management (UM) unit; and
c) Increase the salaries for the classifications of Associate Deputy County Counsel, Deputy County Counsel, and Sr. Deputy County Counsel;
4) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign the revised Salary and Benefits Resolution for Unrepresented Employees - Resolution 235-2019; and
5) Approve the updated 2020 Calendar Year Benefit Rate Cards to include the new unrepresented BD bargaining group and remove the CC bargaining unit, effective December 21, 2019.
FUNDING: General Fund.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
Board of Supervisors Unit:
Earlier this year it was discovered that incumbents in the classification of Supervisor-Board of Supervisors, which have historically been assigned to the Elected (EL) bargaining unit (comprised of elected department heads and members of the Board of Supervisors), were receiving certain benefits inconsistent with the compensation ordinance.
In short, County Ordinance Chapter 2.06.020 states that Supervisors shall:
1) Receive $6,000 in Optional Benefit Credits;
2) Pay 35% of their health/dental/vision benefits; and
3) Not receive a long term disability benefit.
However, members of the Board of Supervisors were inadvertently being treated the same as elected department heads in that:
1) They were receiving $6,240 in Optional Benef...
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