History of Parma Fires Manpower Reduction

Spring 09' had a very important levy renewal on the ballot. With the current economy it was questionable whether it would pass, but desperately needed to maintain the the departments level of service. A campaign was waged by City Hall, that if the levy passed services would be maintained. With the surprise of many, the levy overwhelmingly passed and taxpayers spoke to keep services intact.

In late May, the Mayors office requested a meeting with representatives of The Parma's Fire Union. The Mayor spoke of unexpected deficits from lower then projected tax revenues. He estimated by the end of 2009 that 2.4 million dollars would have to be made up to cover these losses. None of the union reps questioned the figures and took the Mayors presentation in good faith. The bottom line at the meeting is the Fire Department would have to cut $650,000 in its budget from July 2nd to the end of 2009. The Union reps reiterated that if a plan was produced to save that amount of money, no reductions in staffing would occur and no layoffs. The Union was assured and left the meeting and began building a package to present to the membership.

The package had 3 main goals.

1. To maintain manning at fullstrength, for the safety of our citizen and firefighters

2. To prevent layoffs of any member and preserve the command structure of the department

3. Toguaranteethat after taking concessions the City would not explore further cuts, for if they did our presented package would be nulled.

The concessions in the package exceeded the dollar amount the city was looking to save. This was done by each member giving up 2 vacation days (it should be noted that a fire fighters shift is 24 hours and equal to 3 eight hour shifts) and working 2 scheduled days off. In addition members would not use their earned comp time for the rest of 2009, defer sick leave bonus, and not cash in any sick time at a reduced 50% rate.

This proposal was voted on by the union members and passed with over a 90% approval. It was taken to the city and rejected because of the protection clause. A second proposal was rewritten which took out the protection language. It was voted on by the union needing a 2/3 majority vote. Even though it was approved by over 63% of the members in attendance, 2/3 was not achieved. Many votes were against, because of past experience with negotiating with the city and members felt giving up concessions needs some assurances. The union then reworded the proposal. This time with help from the City's Law Director and Safety Director. The combined efforts of the 2 camps made a language change satisfactory to both parties at the time. It was passed by the union, but rejected by the Mayor.

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