CITY COUNCIL MEETING AGENDA PACKET

-9 - of each year the Union shall submit in writing to the Human Resources and Labor Relations Director a list of PCEA/AFSCME LOCAL 955 Executive Board members. The list of official Union representatives may be amended by the Union providing all such amendments are made in writing and submitted to the Director of Human Resources and Labor Relations. The City will grant the Union’s ten (10) member executive board reasonable time off with pay to attend meet and confers, contract negotiations, and one (1) two-hour executive board meeting per month, provided that they occur during the Union member’s regularly scheduled work time. The City will grant a reasonable number of members of the Union’s executive board with reasonable time off to attend mediations, grievance hearings, Weingarten meetings, and Skelly hearings and the routinely scheduled Joint Labor Management Meetings (see Section 4.2) provided the afore-mentioned meetings occur during the employee’s regularly scheduled work time. 4.2 Joint Labor Management Meetings The City and the Union agree to discuss ongoing labor and management issues. The Committee consists of Union and City representatives and may involve subject matter experts as needed. Meetings will be scheduled every other month or as mutually agreed upon. Agendas will be submitted in advance to the other party. Issues to be discussed in this setting may include but are not limited to clarification of City practices and benefits; improvement of communications between the parties; budgetary updates; impact of State or Federal legislation and safety issues including joint training suggestions. Specific project priorities and timelines will be jointly established by the committee. Matters not appropriate for Committee discussion are grievances and disciplinary matters or matters subject to meet and confer pursuant to the Meyers Milias Brown Act. During the term of this MOU (April 1, 2025 – March 31, 2028), the parties agree to confer the Joint-Labor Management Committee to discuss comparable agencies and benchmark classifications to be surveyed. The meeting shall take place not less than six months prior to expiration of the 2025-2028 MOU. Certain criteria shall include agencies of similar size, similar budget, similar sources of revenue and similar scope of operations. Section 5. City Rights The rights of the City include, but are not limited to, the exclusive right to determine the mission of its constituent departments, commissions and boards; set standards of service; determine the procedures and standards of selection for employment and promotion; direct its employees, take disciplinary action for just cause, relieve its employees from duty because of lack of work (per Section 25, Resignation, Reinstatement, and Layoff) or Page 176 of 373