HomeMy WebLinkAboutCONFIDENTIAL ASSOCIATION OF SANTA ANA (CASA) (2022-2025 AMENDMENT) (2)A-2024-171
SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
BETWEEN
CITY OF SANTA ANA
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OCT 2 9 A24 CONFIDENTIAL ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA
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This Second Amendment to the Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") is entered iut on
October 15, 2024, by and between the City of Santa Ana, a charter city and municipal corporation
organized and existing under the Constitution and the laws of the State of California ("City) and
the Confidential Association of the City of Santa Ana ("CASA") a recognized employee
bargaining unit (collectively "Parties'.
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the Parties have entered into an MOU with a term of July 1, 2022 through
Jame 30, 2025;
WHEREAS, on December 5, 2023, the Parties entered into a First Amendment of the MOU
amending Section 9.7 and 9.8(C) regarding payment for employees who are required to work
during the holiday closure; and
WHEREAS, the Parties now wish to modify Article 10.0 of their MOU as set forth below.
THE PARTIES THEREFORE AGREE as follows (additions are underlined and deletions
are stricken);
1. Article 10.0. Section 10.2 ( ) to amend the language as follows:
F, Vacation Euv-Back.
1. Through December 31 2023
Employees are eligible to require the City to buyback up to eighty (80)
hours of their banked vacation per calendar year.
2. Effective January 1 2024 and continuing every year thereafter
a. If an employee wants to cash -out unused vacation leave they
accrued during the calendar year, they must make an irrevocable
election by December 15th of the prior calendar year (Le. by
December 15, 2023 for a cash -out in calendar year 2024).
h. The irrevocable election mast indicate the amount of vacation
hours the employee intends to cash -out during the next calendar
year.
The number of hours to be cashed -out cannot exceed the total
number of hours the employee will accrue during that same
calendar year, or a maximum of eighty (80) hours, whichever is the
lesser amount.
c. Once the election funs is submitted to Human Resources, the
amoutit of hours to be cashed -out cannot he changed for that
calendar year.
d. Employees may submit a request for cash -out tip to two (2) tittles
per year for payment in .thc I-tra paycltec.H peir W64eh :11eludrisof_
July4 and/or December-4-5.
C. In the event mt employee's vacation leave balance (on either pay
period when they can elect to cash -out) is less than the amount of
hours the employee had previously elected to cash -out (in the prior
calendm year), the employee will only receive payment for the
amount of accumulated vacation leave remaining at the time of the
cash -out in either July or December.
If an employee makes an irrevocable election to cash -out vacation
in the following calendar year and uses vacation leave during that
subsequent calendar year, the vacation leave used will first come
from vacation leave the employee had carved (if any) prior to
January 1 st of the calendar year the employee had elected to cash -
out. The use of such earned, but unused, vacation leave
accumulated from previous calendar years shalt not result in a
reduction in the amount of vacation hours the employee is eligible
to cash -out.
2. Except as modified by this Second Amendment and previous amendment, the terms and
conditions of the MOU shall remain in full force and effect,
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Second Amendment to the
MOU, on the date and year written above.
CITY OF S TA A
Alvaro Nunez
City Manager
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Sonia R, Carvalho, City Attorney
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Laura A. Rossini
Chief Assistant City Attorney
REC jOM,�MlENND�E�Dt FOR APPROVAL:
Loci Schnaider
Executive Director of Human Resources
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