HomeMy WebLinkAboutR-11351 identifying the terms and conditions for Fire Department response away from their official duty station and assigned to an emergency incidentR 11351
RESOLUTION NO. 11351 (2022 SERIES)
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN LUIS
OBISPO, CALIFORNIA, IDENTIFYING THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
FOR FIRE DEPARTMENT RESPONSE AWAY FROM THEIR OFFICIAL
DUTY STATION AND ASSIGNED TO AN EMERGENCY INCIDENT
WHEREAS, the City of San Luis Obispo (“City”) is a public agency located in the
County of San Luis Obispo, State of California; and
WHEREAS, it is the City’s desire to provide fair and legal payment to all its
employees for the time worked; and
WHEREAS, the City and its Fire Department participates in mutual aid responses
to emergencies outside the City and County; and
WHEREAS, the City will compensate its employees overtime in accordance with
personnel rules and regulations, their current Memorandum of Agreement, and other
applicable state and federal laws, while in the course of their employment and away from
their official duty station or assignment and assigned to an emergency incident, in support
of an emergency incident, or pre-positioned for emergency response; and
WHEREAS, the City of San Luis Obispo will seek reimbursement for qualifying
mutual aid responses such that all City costs, including but not limited to personnel,
apparatus, equipment, and administrative costs, such that responses to reimbursement-
qualifying mutual aid responses do not have a net negative impact on the City’s financial
position.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of San Luis
Obispo as follows:
SECTION 1. The San Luis Obispo Fire Department will maintain a current salary
survey or acknowledgment of acceptance of the “Base Rate” on file with the California
Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, Fire Rescue Division.
SECTION 2. City Fire Department response personnel will be compensated
(portal to portal) beginning at the time of dispatch to the return to jurisdictions when
equipment and personnel are in service and available for agency response.
SECTION 3. Fire Department response personnel include Fire Chief, Deputy Fire
Chief, Battalion Chief, Fire Captain, Engineer, Firefighter, Administrative Analyst,
Administrative Assistant, Fire Marshal Chief Building Official, Fire Inspector I, Fire
Inspector II, Fire Inspector III, Hazardous Materials Coordinator, Fire Vehicle Mechanic,
Mechanic Helper, Emergency Manager, and Emergency Medical Technician.
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SECTION 4. For purposes of out-of-jurisdiction emergency assignments, the
following Fire Department unrepresented management classifications are eligible for
overtime at a rate of one and one half the employee’s base rate of pay during an event
lasting more than eight hours: Fire Chief, Deputy Fire Chief, Fire Marshal Chief Building
Official, Fire Marshal, Administrative Analyst, and Emergency Manager.
SECTION 5. Resolution Number 11234 (2021 Series) is hereby repealed and
replaced to the extent inconsistent herewith.
Upon motion of Vice Mayor Christianson, seconded by Council Member
Shoresman, and on the following roll call vote:
AYES: Council Member Marx, Pease, Shoresman, Vice Mayor
Christianson, and Mayor Stewart
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
The foregoing resolution was adopted this 16th day of August 2022.
___________________________
Mayor Erica A. Stewart
ATTEST:
______________________
Teresa Purrington
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
______________________
J. Christine Dietrick
City Attorney
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the
City of San Luis Obispo, California, on ______________________.
___________________________
Teresa Purrington
City Clerk
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