What will the Sheriff Deputies and the County be discussing in closed session?

Below is the current labor contract between Boone County Board and the Deputies Union.  The last contract  was settled through  arbitration.  The major item requiring arbitration was the annual pay increases for each year of the three year contract.  Annual increases of 3.5%, 3.0% and 3.0% were approved by arbitration.  (schedule shown below)

Some major items of importance in the present contract:

• Page 15:  Section 1, Sheriff’s Deputies and Sheriff’s Deputies Sergeants will work 12 hour shifts. Budget meetings with the Sheriff’s Department and the Finance Committee of the County Board indicate that there could be a savings in overtime pay and more flexibility of the work load if 8 hours days were allowed.  The Sheriff along with the County Administrator indicated that the union would not shift from the 12 hour day.  Currently with 12 hour days, deputies work only 7 days each 2 weeks, less than 15 days a month.  A second job is quite possible. Multiple periods of extended times off are possible when the 12 (8 twelve hour days) holiday days and the vacation days, 10-20 days (8-16 twelve hour days) are connected to shifts off duty.
• Page 16 &17:  Section 6, Time and a half for court time outside of regular day with 2 hour minimium.  Section 8.  Bidding for shift selection based upon seniority. Section 10 Compensatory time paid as regular time if not used each year.
• Page 18 & 19:  Section 6,  Layoff’s require a two week notification; part-time shall be laid off first then by seniority in each classification.  At the present time there are two part-time deputies who usually work on straight time.  They would have to laid off before any full time deputy.
• Page24:  Twelve holidays are paid.  As part of the county’s budgetary cut’s the county board is considering cutting the number of holidays for non-union employees in other departments.
• Page 25:  Sick leave accrues at the rate of 8 hours per month and can accumulate up to 1040 hours.  Hours in excess of 1040 will be paid to the employee at the rate of one hour pay for four hours of sick leave.  If laid-off or retired, sick leave will be paid to the employee at the rate of one hour pay for each four hours of sick leave;  up to 1,040 hours of leave or 260 hours of pay.

 

 

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     38          Signed Arbitration Agreement