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CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION TO BE GIVEN ONLY TO UNION

NEGOTIATORS AT THE START OF THE SIMULATION

FOP (Union) Economic Interests & Priorities

1. Salary (Art. 24). FOP members have expressed distrust of Metros determination of

the annual tax revenue growth and thus wage increases under the formula explained

above. In addition, the FOP members believe they have lost ground to inflation in

recent years. In previous years it was common for the FOP contract to include salary

increases of 4.75 percent to 5 percent each year.

2. Health Insurance (Art. 33). The FOP would want to maintain the current health

care insurance plans, copays, and premiums in the next contract, or no changes to

the current article. They strongly believe that in the past salary increases were

sacrificed to maintain the health care provision, and thus they have paid for this

benefit when other unions bargained for additional salary increases.

3. Court Pay (Art. 26). The current court pay provision has not been increased for

eight years and thus may not match the state overtime pay rate (time and half). A

request to increase the current $46 rate could be anticipated. Metro currently spends

about $1.3 million per year on court pay.

4. Special Assignment Pay (Art. 29). Benefits common to many police departments,

but not in the current FOP agreement include: Sec. 4, On-call pay, for all detectives

who have on-call responsibilities (each $1.00/hour increase cost, $60,000/year); Sec.

5, Call-in Pay, 4-hour minimum at 1.5 pay each time officers are called in outside of

their normal shift (estimated cost, $125,000/year); Sec. 6, Shift differential: for each

hour worked on shifts starting between 11 P.M. and 2 A.M. (A 10 percent shift

differential per hour cost, $800,000/year).

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5. Paid & Unpaid Leaves (Art. 30). Changes to this article may include: Sec. 3: add

aunts, uncles and significant others to the Bereavement Leave definition of

immediate family (cost is unknown but not expected to exceed $10,000/year); Sec.

1B: annual leave/holiday pay be given by separate check directly to each member,

which is a popular practice because members view the extra check as a special

bonus; Sec. 1D: increase the maximum accrued hours by 80 (from 400 to 480)

because some members who cannot take leave are exceeding the total.

6. Sick Leave (Art. 31). Sec. 5: Expand the definition to include grandparents and

significant others (cost is unknown but not expected to exceed $25, 000 per year).

7. Personal Property (Art. 37). Because of the denial of two recent requests involving

uniforms torn in the line of duty, possibly add new language that would guarantee

the replacement of uniforms torn in the line of duty (cost is minimal).

8. Legal Protection (Art. 23). Sec. 1: Include former member so members who are

sued for line-of-duty actions after they leave the Police Department are provided

legal defense by Metro.

9. Clothing and Equipment Allowance (Art. 34). Increase the current allowance of

$1500 to compensate for the effect of inflation. (Sec.1 a $1000 increase per officer

cost, $1,175,000).

10. Grievance Procedure (Art. 12). To provide a certain decision in the grievance

procedure process, change Step 4 from advisory arbitration to final and binding

arbitration, which is common in labor agreements and wou ld bind Metro to the

decision of an arbitrator.