Speaker 1: contract term submits a report recommending that the order are to pass number 0403 the Committee on City Services and Innovation Technology, to which was referred on March 23rd, 2022. Docket 0403 Message In order to reduce the fiscal year 22 appropriation for the reserve for collective bargaining by $2,954,828. To provide funding for various department departments for the fiscal year 22. Increases contained within the collective bargaining agreement between the city of Boston and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. AFL CIO Council 93 have Smith submits a report recommending that the order ought to pass. Thank you. The chair recognizes counsel, board chair of the Committee on City Services, Innovation Technology Council blocking of the floor.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much, President Flynn. We held a hearing on this docket, these two dockets on April 19th, 2022. And I want to thank President Flynn for joining me at that hearing. As was mentioned in the summary of the docket, this is for me. We've got 1040 employees who are covered by this bargaining unit. It's the second of the many unresolved contracts that are outstanding that have come before the council in this session for council ratification of their funding. It follows the same pattern as the one that we that we approved a couple of weeks ago. So that's, as was mentioned, the 2% raise effective October 2020, the 1.5% October 2021, and then the 2% for October 2022. It also includes a $1,000 lump sum payment for each member related to the fact that the Acme employees across a number of different departments in the city, most of them were really in pretty frontline roles during the pandemic. And so that was an item that came up at the bargaining table. Unlike the Senate contract, it also adds Juneteenth as a recognized holiday within the contract and also adds a couple of wellness days in July in relationship to the vaccine. Moa. The you know, one of the things that we discussed in the committee was just, you know, Councilor Flynn raised the question of why is that? Why is that middle year 1.5 instead of 2%? I mean, partly has to do with the fact that this is the. The contracts that are being settled this year, they kind of have to work with the bargaining reserve that we had for the last year because we're back funding things right from prior fiscal years. And so there's a little bit of a limitation of scope of what was in the bargaining reserve for FY 21 and 22. But again, I think the lump sum payment was part of that conversation. We one of the things we raised was that the council, in sort of the last round of big contract resolutions some time ago now in 2015, expressed the fact that, you know, when we're setting a pattern, we want to make sure that our civilian workers in the city are are seeing their pay increase in ways that are comparable to foreign workers, because that's that's kind of gone out of whack in the last 20 years. So these are civilian this is asking is the biggest civilian union that besides the teachers union that's still outstanding. Um, and, uh, yeah, it was, it was a good, good hearing. I will just say that I know because I heard from them that we have a large number of absentee members who are eager for this to be passed because the way this works for folks who are new is that folks don't get their retroactive pay increase until this is approved and funded by the council. Um, so I know that there are people waiting on those checks and you know, I think it's consistent, like I said, with the pattern that's come before us already and that seems, um, within the fiscal capacity of the city. We had both Jim Williamson, the budget director, and Lou Mediterranee, the special advisor for the mayor, come and join us on the 19th. So. Mr. Chair, my recommendation, um, for these two dockets, again, just operationally, one is for us to actually take the money and draw down the bargaining reserve, which we approved at the last budget cycle . And then the other is to actually appropriate it across these various departments to fund the contract. And so my recommendation, Mr. Chair, is that both docket 0402 and 0403 pass. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Councilor Barker. The Council blocked the chair on the Committee of City Services. Innovation Technology seeks acceptance of the Committee report and passage of Docket 0402. All those in favor say I oppose. Nay, the ayes have it. The docket has passed. Council block the chair on the Committee of City Services Innovation Technology seeks acceptance of the committee report in passage of Docket 0403. All those in favor say I am all opposed. The ayes have it. The docket has passed. Mr. Clerk, please read docket 0434 Duncan 0434. The Committee on City Services and Innovation Technology, to which was referred on March 30th, 2022. Duncan Number 0434 Message In order for the confirmation of the appointment of Christopher Cook as a member of the Boston Water and Sewer Commission for a term expiring March 30th, 2026
The message and order, to which was referred on March 23, 2022, Docket #0403, to reduce the FY22 appropriation for the Reserve for Collective Bargaining by Two Million Nine Hundred Fifty Four Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Eight Dollars ($2,954,828.00) to provide funding for various department for the FY22 increases contained within the collective bargaining agreement between the City of Boston and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees AFL-CIO, Council 93 (AFSCME), the committee submitted a report recommending that the order ought to pass.