CC RES 2026-026 RESOLUTION NO. 2026-26
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CALIFORNIA,
ACCEPTING, APPROVING, AND ADOPTING THE
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS FOR THE
UNREPRESENTED AND CONFIDENTIAL PART-
TIME HUMAN RESOURCES SPECIALIST
CLASSIFICATION FOR THE PERIOD OF JULY 1,
2025 THROUGH JUNE 30, 2028
WHEREAS, the City and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
(AFSCME) District Council 36 have successfully met and conferred to negotiate a Tentative
Agreement on a successor AFSCME MOU for the period of July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028
(Fiscal Year (FY) 2025-28 AFSCME MOU) pursuant to the Meyers-Millais-Brown Act (MMBA)
(Government Code sections 3500-3511) and the City's Employer-Employee Relations Resolution
No. 2018-23; and
WHEREAS, the City's labor representatives and AFSCME representatives prepared a written
Tentative Agreement regarding the terms for the successor FY 2025-28 AFSCME MOU , which'was
ratified on March 6, 2026 by the AFSCME membership, and then adopted by the City Council on
March 17, 2026; the FY 2025-28 AFSCME MOU was adopted by the City Council on April 7, 2026
per Resolution No. 2026-25; and
WHEREAS, the City Council desires to move the part-time classification of Human Resources
Specialist out of AFSCME and into an unrepresented and confidential group, as well as approve
similar amended compensation and benefits, as are provided to AFSCME represented employees.
NOW, THEREFORE THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES
DOES HEREBY FIND, DETERMINE AND RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1: The recitals set forth above are true and correct and incorporated herein by this
reference.
Section 2: The City Council approves the following amended compensation and benefits for
the Human Resources Specialist:
• Cost of Living Adjustments (COLAs)
Year 1 — Effective the date of the City Council adoption of the FY 2025-28 AFSCME
MOU, provide a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) of between 0% to 3%, as
measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U)for the Los
Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metropolitan area covering the prior twelve month
period March to March.
Year 2—Effective July 1, 2026, in lieu of a COLA,the City shall provide a one hundred
dollar ($100) bonus if employment status is active as of July 1, 2026.
Year 3— Effective July 1, 2027, provide a COLA of between 0% to 3%, as measured
by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for the Los Angeles-
Long Beach-Anaheim metropolitan area covering the prior twelve-month period
March to March.
• Performance Evaluations
An employee shall receive an annual performance evaluation once the employee has
completed 750 work hours (starting on the employee's last performance evaluation
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due date) or one year of employment, whichever occurs later.
• Tuition Reimbursement
The City agrees to increase employee tuition reimbursement up to $1,000 per
academic year for coursework,related to the employee's job and be pre-approved
prior to enrollment to ensure it is reimbursable. The reimbursement will require a one-
year claw back provision that will be reduced on a pro-rata basis over the one-year
period, in the event the employee leaves City employment within that 1-year period.
Effective July 1, 2025, employees must work a minimum of 500 hours in a fiscal year
to be eligible and maintain those hours during the one-year period following the
reimbursement.
• Sick Leave
Eligible employees shall accrue paid sick days at the rate of 1 hour per every 30
hours worked, beginning at the commencement of employment and will accrue such
paid sick leave for use beginning on the ninetieth (90th) day of employment or as
permitted by law.
All paid sick leave is capped at eighty (80) hours per calendar year, including if rolled
over from the prior year, and has no vested interest or cash value.
Employees are limited to use forty (40) hours of sick leave in each year of
employment.
If hired to a full-time position with the City, employees may transfer remaining accrued
part-time sick leave hours to the employee's full-time sick leave bank.
• Additional Federal Holidays
The City agrees to observe three (3) additional federal holidays, Martin Luther King
Jr. Day, Presidents Day, and Veterans Day. The City agrees to pay holiday overtime
pay for working any hours during an observed holiday.
All other compensation and benefits not expressly amended or addressed in this resolution shall be
the same as the FY 2025-28 AFSCME MOU.
Section 3: The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution and deem it effective
as of July 1, 2025, the same shall be in force and effect.
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PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 7th day of April, 2026.
Paul Se- , Mayor
ATTEST:
jeresa ak .oka, City Clerk
State of,CalUfornia )
County of Los Angeles ) ss
City of Rancho Palos Verdes )
I, Teresa Takaoka, City Clerk of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, hereby certify that the
above Resolution No. 2026-26 was duly and regularly passed and adopted by the said City
Council at a regular meeting thereof held on April 7, 2026.
Iligetelec--„_
eresa - kaoka, City Clerk
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