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Clearlake council adopts one-year MOUs with two employee units, police pact deferred
Summary
The council approved one-year memorandums with the municipal employee and middle management associations that include a 3% cost-of-living adjustment and removal of the bilingual pay recertification requirement; the police officers association MOU was deferred pending member ratification.
The Clearlake City Council on July 2 adopted one-year memorandums of understanding with two employee bargaining units and deferred consideration of a police officers association agreement pending internal ratification.
Administrative Services Director Swanson told the council the tentative agreements with the Clear Lake Municipal Employee Association (CMEA) and the Clear Lake Middle Management Association (MMA) run July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027. Both agreements, the staff report said, include a 3% cost-of-living adjustment, removal of the recertification requirement for bilingual pay, and an updated list of positions covered by each bargaining unit.
Council opened both items to public comment; no members of the public spoke. A motion to adopt the CMEA agreement was moved and seconded and passed by voice vote. Separately, staff reported that the Clear Lake Police Officers Association did not achieve quorum at its meeting and is conducting votes over the coming days; the police MOU will be brought back for council consideration at the next regular meeting on July 16.
The council then considered and approved the Middle Management Association MOU, with council members passing the measure by unanimous voice vote.
The agreements were characterized in the staff report as efforts to balance compensation for city employees with fiscal sustainability within existing budget constraints. The transcript records the headline terms and unanimous approval; department staff indicated a redlined copy of the MOU appeared in the staff report and is available in the official meeting packet.
