passed ordinance

*Authorize a Letter of Agreement between the City and the Professional and Technical Employees Union Local 17 relating to the wages, hours, and working conditions of the Capital Project Manager II classification

labor
ordinance

Department: Human Resources
Introduced by: Former Mayor Ted Wheeler
Status: Passed

Impact statement

Purpose & background

The purpose of this agreement is to amend schedule A to include Capital Project Manager II classification. The City and Union have an interest incentivizing the retention of Capital Project Manager II and this LAO creates the wages and benefits that shall apply to them.

Financial impacts

The fiscal impact of applying the new wage scale for the Capital Project Manager II is estimated below over a four year period, bureaus shall manage this cost within existing current service level appropriation. Bureau 2022 2023 2024 2025 Portland Housing Bureau $861 $2,165 $1,467 $1,503 Portland Bureau of Transportation $4,044 $19,427 $27,362 $30,305 Bureau of Environmental Services $8,128 $15,729 $19,507 $19,535 Office of Management & Finance - Facilities Services $3,873 $5,090 $12,576 $20,398 City Total $16,905 $42,411 $60,462 $71,741 Assumes annual 3.1 % pay grade increase under the current pay system. The 3.1% was based on average grade increase for CPM II in FY 2021-22

Community impacts

There are no anticipated community impacts to this agreement.

▸ Full text (the legislation as adopted)

The City of Portland ordains: Section 1. The Council finds: The City and Professional and Technical Employees Local 17 are parties to a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) effective July 1, 2017, to December 31, 2021. The parties have been in negotiations for a successor contract and reached a Tentative Agreement on May 24, 2022. In 2018, the City created the non-represented classification of Capital Project Manager II, ordinance 189157. With the existing salary grade 57 which currently has a range of $31.15 to $53.48 hourly / $66,872 to $111,238 annual full time. On October 12, 2021, the Oregon Employment Relations Board (ERB) certified PROTEC17 as the exclusive bargaining representative of employees in the Capital Project Manager II classification in the City of Portland. In May 2022 representatives of the City and PROTEC17 signed a Letter of Agreement, Exhibit A, that outlines the terms and conditions of adding the classification of Capital Project Manager II to the Schedule A of the successor City and PROTECT17 Labor Agreement. Exhibit A outlines the terms and conditions of adding the classification of Capital Project Manager II to the Schedule A of the current labor agreement. Employees covered under this agreement shall be eligible for the management leave rollover, ordinance 190577. Thereafter, employees in this classification shall not be eligible for management leave. All wage changes, including moving employee wages from grade to step shall be effective July 1, 2022. All other terms and conditions of the City and CBA shall apply to the Capital Project Manager II classification as stated in Exhibit A. NOW, THEREFORE, the Council directs: The Director of the Bureau of Human Resources is authorized to enter into a Letter of Agreement, Exhibit A, between the City and PROTEC17 for the Capital Project Manager II classification. This ordinance is binding City policy. Section 2. The Council declares that an emergency exists because delay would unnecessarily delay the orderly implementation of the provisions of this Letter of Agreement; therefore, this Ordinance shall be in full force and effect after its passage by the Council.

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