Speaker 1: Agenda Item two Capital 119 784 relating to city employment, authorizing execution of a collective bargaining agreement between the city, Seattle and Seattle. Parking enforcement officers. Guilt and Ratifying Confirming Search for Iraq.
Speaker 0: I thank you so much. I'm honored to pass Council Bill 1197894. Is there a second?
Speaker 1: Second.
Speaker 0: It's been moved and seconded to pass the bill as sponsor of the bill. I will address that first and then see if any of you colleagues have comments to add. Council Bill 119794. As I discussed in this morning's council briefing is related to the Seattle Parking Enforcement Officers Guild's Collective Bargaining Agreement. This council bill would authorize the execution of a negotiated union contract between the city of Seattle and that bargaining unit. This is a three year contract from January 1st, 2019 through December 31st, 2021, and includes approximately 105 regularly appointed city employees in the Seattle Police Department. The financial terms of this union contract are similar to those of the State Coalition's union contracts and include a retroactive 4% annual wage increase for 2019 and a 3.6% annual wage increase for 2020. The financial and non-financial terms in this collective bargaining agreement were considered and approved by the members of the Labor Relations Policy Committee and are within those previously approved parameters. I'm happy to entertain any questions or hear any comments from any of my colleagues. Councilmember Peterson.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Council President Gonzalez, I appreciate.
Speaker 3: The hard work of our Labor Relations Policy Committee and the difficult decisions that you have to make.
Speaker 2: I do not serve on that particular committee of legislative and executive leaders who represent management and who negotiate the multitude of employment contracts.
Speaker 3: Impacting 12,000 city government workers.
Speaker 2: I carefully consider each contract on its own terms, and.
Speaker 3: At this moment in time, with the grim.
Speaker 2: Fiscal challenges our city.
Speaker 3: Government faces today, I'll be voting no on this particular contract for parking enforcement officers. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilmember Peterson, for those remarks. Just really quickly, I want to be just responsive to the extent that I can. We don't need to belabor the point, but this this particular contract, and based on the evaluation given to us by the city Budget Office, does not have dire or detrimental impacts on the projected deficit of the city of Seattle. I think that I and the members of the Labor Relations Policy Committee, which include four other Council members and members of the executive team, carefully engaged with the city budget office to make sure that this was not only a high road employer contract, but also a contract that was fiscally responsible and within our existing means as a city and feel comfortable that the contract before us strikes the right balance and that in approving this contract, we will not be subjecting the city budget to to further pressure or crisis as a result of the the the contract. So I hope my colleagues will join me in supporting approval of this particular contract. Any other questions or comments, colleagues? Because remember Lewis.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Madam President. I do just want to signal that I will be voting in favor of ratifying this contract today. I think it's critical that as we go into what is going to be a very difficult a lot of very difficult conversations about the budget over the summer, in this fall, can we not lose sight of the fact that some of the most essential functions of government that we serve as a city are our first responders, law enforcement, firefighters, and certainly the employees that are included under this contract that provide an essential law enforcement based mechanism that is really essential to maintaining the social contract that holds the city of Seattle together . This these are some of the services that we need to fight more than ever to make sure that we are maintaining adequately and that these are workers, that we are seeking to have measures in place to retain and encourage them to stay in our workforce. There's never been a more appropriate time, I think, to ratify a contract like this for this group of workers. I hope it sets a precedent that we try to make sure that we set a budget that not only delivers essential services, but really defines our values as a progressive city. And I think it really starts by making sure that we boldly stand by some of the workers doing really essential and critical work out there. That hasn't abated during this crisis. So I will be voting in favor of this.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilmember Lewis. Any other comments or questions on the bill? Hearing and seeing none. I would ask that the clerk please call the role on the passage of the bill.
Speaker 1: Lewis, I. Morales, I. Let's get a my.
Speaker 2: PETERSON No.
Speaker 1: Strauss.
Speaker 3: I.
Speaker 1: Purple.
Speaker 0: I.
Speaker 1: President Gonzalez, I. Six in favor. One opposed.
Speaker 0: The bill passes and the chair will sign it. And I doubt that the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf. Okay, colleagues. Well, we're going to go ahead and move to agenda item three, which is emergency legislation and will require a three quarters vote of the city council. This is the next agenda item, and I'd ask that the clerk please read item three into the record. A short title is fine.
Speaker 1: Agenda Item three Capital 119795 Relations for the employment authorized execution of a memorandum of Understanding for Flexibility to start a civil emergency declared on March three, 2020, providing certain benefits that conditions for employees using relief pursuant to the Families First Coronavirus Response Act.
AN ORDINANCE relating to City employment; authorizing execution of a collective bargaining agreement between The City of Seattle and Seattle Parking Enforcement Officers’ Guild; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.