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Firefighters urge council to ratify contract amendment; staff reads resolution title
Summary
Union representatives said they met with counsel and asked the council to ratify an amendment to a fire department contract (Resolution 2026-30 was read); staff outlined that provisions exist to amend the contract but that council ratification was needed for certain changes.
Representatives of the fire department asked the council to ratify an amendment to their contract and the council’s staff read the title of City Council Resolution No. 2026-30.
A fire representative who identified himself in the transcript as Thomas Anderson said union leadership and counsel Rob Larkin met with city counsel and that the contract contains provisions allowing amendment but that the union wanted council ratification for the change to take effect. Anderson said the amended contract referenced a pay/schedule change described in the transcript as "over $48.96 schedule." He told the council that those who signed the amendment had done so with counsel present and asked for the council’s vote to ratify the change.
Earlier in the meeting a staff member read the resolution title into the record as "City Council Resolution number 2026-30, a resolution of the city council of the city of [Live Oak], ratifying the execution of article 11, hours of work agreement," and cited severability and an effective date in the reading. The transcript records the reading of the resolution title and the request to ratify but does not contain a roll-call vote or final adoption text for the resolution in the provided segment.
The council’s next step on this item will be to consider the resolution formally at a later point on the agenda or to take a recorded vote; the transcript excerpt includes the presentation and the request for ratification but no final vote tally.
