Budget committee backs three-year SEIU supervisors' contract, recommends full council approval

Ramona Savallos, the city’s chief administrative and financial officer, presented a three‑year memorandum of agreement for SEIU Local 888 supervisors and administrators on March 11 and outlined the program’s cost allocations and benefit changes. The contract would go back to July 1, 2025 for retroactive pay and requires a transfer of $106,570 from the current-year salary reserve and other accounts into various payroll lines.

Savallos itemized the fund breakdown included in committee materials: general fund $77,637; parking enterprise $3,362; sewer and water enterprise fund $15,004.84; and a grant account for $10,087. She described negotiated changes to vacation accruals for employees with under five years’ service (an upfront five days on January 1 followed by monthly accrual of the remaining five) and stated that upon ratification each eligible worker would receive a $1,000 signing bonus.

Committee members asked how the new accrual mechanism would operate in practice and whether personal days and sick-time accruals were also affected. Savallos and staff walked through examples to clarify how the upfront five-day deposit interacts with monthly accruals and with the five‑year anniversary change to three weeks’ vacation.

Outcome: After discussion, Budget & Finance voted to send the proposed collective bargaining agreement to the full council with a favorable recommendation.

Next steps: The CBA will appear on the full council agenda for ratification; the committee requested that the city’s finance office include the appropriation and fund transfer language required to implement the payroll changes.