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The City of Livermore and the City of Pleasanton have jointly formed the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department Joint Powers Authority. The International Association of Fire Fighters, Local 1974, AFL- CIO-CLC, and representatives of the Cities have met and conferred in good faith regarding wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment of employees in the representation unit specified in Section 1, and have exchanged freely information, opinions and proposals and have reached agreement on all matters relating to the employment conditions and employer-employee relations of such employees. This Memorandum of Understanding is entered into pursuant to the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (Government Code Section 3500, et. seq.) and has been jointly prepared by the parties. This Memorandum of Understanding has been presented to the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department Joint Powers Authority governing board and to the City Councils of the City of Livermore and the City of Pleasanton. The governing board and the City Councils have approved the salary and employee benefit adjustments for the period commencing August 1, 2007 and ending July 31, 2010. "Employees" as used in this Memorandum of Understanding shall mean employees of the City of Pleasanton. Unless otherwise indicated, "City" or"the City" shall mean the City of Pleasanton. Section 1. Recognition Local 1974, of the International Association of Fire Fighters, AFL-CIO-CLC, hereinafter referred to as the "Union," is the formally recognized employee organization for the Fire Employees Unit comprised of the classifications of Firefighter, Fire Engineer, Fire Captain, Fire Inspector and Hazardous Materials Coordinator certified pursuant to the Employer-Employee Relations Procedures & Resolution No. 97-1 adopted by the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department Joint Powers Authority on 11/21/97. Effective the first pay period after August 1, 2007, the classifications of Fire Inspector and Hazardous Materials Inspector shall be combined into a single classification entitled Fire Inspector and paid at the Hazardous Materials Inspector pay range. Section 2. Union Security 2.1 Dues Deduction Upon receipt of a written assignment and authorization signed by the employee, the Department agrees to deduct from an employee's paycheck an amount which will total the dues uniformly required for membership in the Union. The Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department shall remit the amount so deducted to the officer designated in writing by the President of the Union as the person authorized to receive such funds. The President of the Union shall notify the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department Fire Chief in writing as to the amount of such dues uniformly required of all members of the Union. The employee's earnings must be regularly sufficient after other legal and required deductions are made to cover the amount of the dues checkoff authorized. When an employee is in a non-pay status for an entire pay period, no withholding will be made to cover that pay period from future earnings. In the case 1