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Committee hears firefighter MOUs with overtime, wellness and reserve details; items sent to Aug. 7 meeting
Summary
The Government Audits and Oversight Committee reviewed two memoranda of understanding with the San Francisco Firefighters Union Local 798 covering Units 1 and 2, focusing on overtime changes (straight-time threshold extended to 10 hours), limited premium increases, wellness eligibility changes and MOU reserve sufficiency; the committee referred the items to the Aug. 7 meeting without a recorded vote.
The Government Audits and Oversight Committee on a special meeting day heard staff and union presentations on two ordinances to adopt memoranda of understanding (MOUs) between the City and County of San Francisco and the San Francisco Firefighters Union Local 798, IAFF (Units 1 and 2), and sent the items to the committee's Aug. 7 meeting for further action.
Deputy city attorney Martin Grand presented the contract highlights, saying the agreements maintain historically aligned entry wages with the police and include "a number of reforms" including finalized substance-abuse testing and changes to advancement criteria. He said the MOUs revise eligibility for a pilot wellness program by requiring "a threshold number of hours worked in the last 2 years of employment" to…
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