City of Alexandria, Virginia
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MEMORANDUM
DATE: APRIL 12, 2021
TO: THE HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL
FROM: MARK B. JINKS, CITY MANAGER /s/
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Public Hearing, Second Reading and Final Passage of an Ordinance to amend Title 2 of the Code of the City of Alexandria, Virginia, General Government, Chapter 5, Officers and Employees, by adding Article E, Collective Bargaining. [ROLL-CALL VOTE]
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ISSUE: Consideration of proposed ordinance to establish collective bargaining between the City and certain City employees.
RECOMMENDATION: That City Council after the second reading and public hearing, adopt the attached ordinance with the changes as shown in Attachment 2 and the changes as proposed in subsections B and C of this docket memo.
BACKGROUND: On February 9, 2021, City Council introduced an initial draft of a proposed collective bargaining ordinance for discussion. Council decided to not adopt the ordinance on first reading, and instead provided feedback to staff with the intention of discussing and potentially adopting the updated ordinance at the March 9, 2021 Legislative Meeting. Moreover, Council instructed staff to work with the employee organizations to find mutually agreeable solutions on (1) the scope of bargaining; (2) the number of bargaining units; (3) public safety supervisors excluded from bargaining; (4) procedures relating to selection of the Labor Relations Administrator (LRA); and the (5) resolution of negotiation impasses.
As instructed, staff engaged with the employee organizations on these topics and reached some agreement, although some areas of disagreement between the parties remained. The main areas of disagreement between the parties as of March 9 were on the scope of bargaining, public safety supervisors being excluded from bargaining, and how impasses in negotiations would be resolved between the partie...
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