CITY OF SEATTLE
ORDINANCE __________________
COUNCIL BILL __________________
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AN ORDINANCE relating to City employment; authorizing the execution of a Memorandum of Understanding between The City of Seattle and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 77; amending Ordinance 126725, which adopted the 2023 budget; changing appropriations to various departments and budget control levels, and from various funds in the Budget; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts; all by a 3/4 vote of the City Council.
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WHEREAS, The City of Seattle identified a need to adjust working conditions of certain International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union members to manage a backlog of over 24,000 electrical meter installations; and
WHEREAS, The City of Seattle and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 77 entered into negotiations to bargain the impacts of changes to such working conditions and came to an agreement as memorialized in a memorandum of understanding; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF SEATTLE AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. 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 understanding with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 77 substantially in the form attached to this ordinance as Attachment 1 and identified as “Memorandum of Understanding By and Between City of Seattle, Seattle City Light And International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 77.”
Section 2. In order to pay for necessary costs and expenses in 2023, 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 2023 Budget, appropriations for the following items in the 2023 Budget are increased from the funds shown, as follows:
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Item |
Fund |
Department |
Budget Summary Level |
Amount |
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2.1 |
Light Fund (41000) |
City Light |
Utility Operations (BO-CL-UTILOPS) |
$472,000 |
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Total |
|
|
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$472,000 |
Section 3. Any act consistent with the authority of this ordinance taken prior to its effective date is ratified and confirmed.
Section 4. 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 _________________________, 2023, and signed by me in open session in authentication of its passage this ________ day of _________________________, 2023.
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President ____________ of the City Council
Approved / returned unsigned / vetoed this _____ day of _________________, 2023.
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Bruce A. Harrell, Mayor
Filed by me this ________ day of _________________________, 2023.
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Elizabeth M. Adkisson, Interim City Clerk
(Seal)
Attachments:
Attachment 1 - Memorandum of Understanding By and Between City of Seattle, Seattle City Light And International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 77