Record No: CB 118398    Version: 1 Council Bill No: CB 118398
Type: Ordinance (Ord) Status: Passed
Current Controlling Legislative Body City Clerk
On agenda: 5/26/2015
Ordinance No: Ord 124783
Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to City employment commonly referred to as the First Quarter 2015 Employment Ordinance; establishing new titles and salaries; establishing a premium pay for certain licensing requirements at Seattle Center; amending Ordinance 124648; increasing funds for the Human Services Operating Fund; designating positions as exempt from Civil Service status; authorizing the execution of a Memorandum of Agreement between The City of Seattle and Public Service and Industrial Employees Local 1239 and a Memorandum of Agreement between The City of Seattle and International Union of Operating Engineers Local 286; and ratifying and confirming prior acts; all by a three-fourths vote of the City Council.
Sponsors: Tim Burgess
Attachments: 1. Att 1: MOA by and between The City of Seattle and Public Service and Industrial Employees Local 1239, 2. Att 2: MOA by and between The City of Seattle and International Union of Operating Engineers Local 286
Supporting documents: 1. Summary and Fiscal Note, 2. Summary Att 1: Implementation Sheet, 3. Signed Ord 124783
 
CITY OF SEATTLE
ORDINANCE __________________
COUNCIL BILL __________________
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AN ORDINANCE relating to City employment commonly referred to as the First Quarter 2015 Employment Ordinance; establishing new titles and salaries; establishing a premium pay for certain licensing requirements at Seattle Center; amending Ordinance 124648; increasing funds for the Human Services Operating Fund; designating positions as exempt from Civil Service status; authorizing the execution of a Memorandum of Agreement between The City of Seattle and Public Service and Industrial Employees Local 1239 and a Memorandum of Agreement between The City of Seattle and International Union of Operating Engineers Local 286; and ratifying and confirming prior acts; all by a three-fourths vote of the City Council.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF SEATTLE AS FOLLOWS:
      Section 1.  Establishing new titles and/or salaries.  As recommended by the Seattle Human Resources Director, the following titles and/or salary rates are established as shown, effective as of the dates shown and pay authorized back to the effective dates:
Department:
Seattle Public Utilities
New Title:
Utility Maintenance Supervisor
New Salary Range (2013): Effective Date:
$34.59 - $35.96 - $37.46 - $38.85 - $40.27 May 27, 2013
New Salary Range (2014):
$35.21 - $36.61 - $38.13 - $39.55 - $40.99
Effective Date:
January 1, 2014
Report:
#13-13556
Department:
Citywide
Title: Old Salary Range:
High School Intern - Intermittent $9.47
New Salary Range: Effective Date:
$15.00 April 1, 2015
 Department:
 Human Services Department
Title: Old Salary Range:
Youth Employment Enrollee-Summer - Intermittent $9.47
New Salary Range: Effective Date:
$15.00 April 1, 2015
Department:
Human Services Department
Title:  Old Salary Range:
Youth Employment Enrollee-Summer NC - Intermittent $9.47
New Salary Range: Effective Date:
$15.00 April 1, 2015
 
 
       Section 2.  Establishing a premium pay for employees at Seattle Center who are required to obtain a Grade II or above Steam Engineer's License.  The premium pay will be ten percent  of the regular hourly wage in addition to the respective regular hourly wage while required to be so licensed, effective April 8, 2015.  Employees not required or no longer required to be licensed shall not be eligible for the premium pay.
          Section 3.  Amending Ordinance 124648, which adopted the City's 2015 Budget. In order to pay for necessary costs and expenses incurred or to be incurred in 2015, but for which insufficient appropriations were made due to causes that could not reasonably have been foreseen at the time of the making of the 2015 Budget, appropriations for the following items in the 2015 Budget are increased from the funds shown, as follows:
Item
Fund
Department
Budget Control Level
Amount
3.1
General Subfund (00100)
Finance General
Reserves (QD000)
($294,257)
 
Human Services Operating Fund (16200)
Human Services Department
Youth and Family Empowerment (H20YF)
$294,257
 
      Section 4.  To support the appropriations made in Section 3 above, cash is hereby transferred as shown in the following table:
Item
Fund
Amount
4.1
General Subfund (00100)
($294,257)
 
Human Services Operating Fund (16200)
$294,257
 
      Section 5.  Designating Six Positions as Exempt from Civil Service Status.  As   recommended by the Seattle Human Resources Director in the Classification Determination Report specified, the following positions are designated as exempt from Civil Service as noted below, pursuant to Seattle Municipal Code 4.13.010(1):
-      1 position (00015675) in the Department of Finance & Administrative Services; Strategic Advisor 1, General Government designated to Strategic Advisor 2, Exempt (Report #14-14220).
-      1 position (00011228) in the Department of Finance & Administrative Services; IT Professional C designated to IT Professional A, Exempt (Report #14-14294).
-      1 position (00025237) in the Seattle Police Department; Strategic Advisor 2, Courts, Legal & Public Safety designated to Strategic Advisor 3, Exempt (Report #14-14227).
-      1 position (00026818) in the Seattle Public Utilities Department; Manager 3, General Government designated to Executive 2 (Report #14-14326).
-      1 position (00025250) in the Seattle City Light Department; IT Professional B designated to IT Professional A, Exempt (Report #14-14328).
-      1 position (00016290) in the Department of Education & Early Learning; Manager 3, Human Services, designated to Manager 3, Exempt (Report #15-14431).
      Section 6. As requested by the Seattle Human Resources Director and recommended by the Mayor, the Mayor is authorized on behalf of The City of Seattle to execute a Memorandum of Agreement with The Public Service and Industrial Employees Local 1239 substantially in the form attached to this ordinance as Attachment 1. Also as requested by the Seattle Human Resources Director and recommended by the Mayor, the Mayor is authorized on behalf of the City of Seattle to execute a Memorandum of Agreement with The International Union of Operating Engineers Local 286 substantially in the form attached to this ordinance as Attachment 2.
      Section 7. Any act consistent with the authority and prior to the effective date of this ordinance is ratified and confirmed.
      Section 8.  This ordinance shall take effect and be in force 30 days after its approval by the Mayor, but if not approved and returned by the Mayor within ten days after presentation, it shall take effect as provided by Seattle Municipal Code Section 1.04.020.
Passed by a 3/4 vote of all the members of the City Council the ____ day of ________________________, 2015, and signed by me in open session in authentication of its passage this  _____ day of ___________________, 2015.
 
                              _________________________________
                              President __________of the City Council
      Approved by me this ____ day of _____________________, 2015.
 
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                              Edward B. Murray, Mayor
      Filed by me this ____ day of __________________________, 2015.
 
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                              Monica Martinez Simmons, City Clerk
 
 
(Seal)
Attachments:
Attachment 1: Memorandum of Agreement by and between The City of Seattle and Public Service and Industrial Employees Local 1239
Attachment 2: Memorandum of Agreement by and between The City of Seattle and International Union of Operating Engineers Local 286