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�� Department Approval: Item Description: Backtround Manager Approved: �� 2004 Sergeants/Teamsters Contract Terms Date: 8/16/04 Item #: 3. a Agenda Section: Consent The City of Roseville has three collective bargaining units. This Report deals with the Police Sergeants who remain the only unsettle group for 2004. There are 7 city employees in the Teamsters' bargaining unit. These employees directly supervisethe activities of the police officers and others in their areas of assigned duty for the Police Department. Although wages are provided in five different plans to various city employees, the City maintains a policy of parity for all employees. According to the philosophy, comparable wages and benefits are consistentlyprovided to the five employee groups except when arbitration decisions do not allow for this. In addition, the City benchmarks itself with comparable municipalities (Stanton V Cities). The Stanton Group has contracted with the League of MN Cities for the last 35 years to conduct an analysis of inetro area county and city wage and benefits trends. Once the data is compiled it is analyzed, entered and printed in the books that each contracting city member receives. There were 108 participating jurisdictions in 2004 covering 92 jobs within 15 job families. This method of research and comparison is more efficient than having each county and city duplicating these efforts. Thus each job classificationis looked at separately across many cities to determine what comparable cities and counties are doing and whether any "Stanton adjustment" is appropriate for that job classification. The Stanton V group consists of a benchmark group of comparable sized cities to Roseville. There are 25 metro area cities in this group. According to comparable Stanton V municipalities, the wage increase for union and non-union groups over all job classifications averages approximately 2.8% for 2004. Staff surveyed 62 communities to gather final settlement information for the Police Supervior's group and found the average to be approximately 2.5% and the City Council authorized a 2004 23% wage adjustment for non-union city staff as well as the 49er