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To: Contra Costa County Fire Protection District Board of Directors
From: Monica Nino, County Administrator
Date: May  18, 2021
The Seal of Contra Costa County, CA
Contra
Costa
County
Subject: Contra Costa County Fire Management Resolution No. 2021/4 which Supersedes Resolution No. 2020/6
APPROVE OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
Action of Board On:   05/18/2021
APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:
John Gioia, Director
Candace Andersen, Director
Diane Burgis, Director
Karen Mitchoff, Director
Federal D. Glover, Director
Contact: Lisa Driscoll, County Finance Director, (925) 655-2047
cc: Ann Elliott, Director of Human Resources    
I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED:     May  18, 2021
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BY: , Deputy

 

RECOMMENDATION(S):

ADOPT Resolution No. 2021/4, which supersedes Resolution No. 2020/6, regarding compensation and benefits for unrepresented fire safety management classifications in the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District.

FISCAL IMPACT:

The fiscal impact is anticipated to be neutral. The total cost of providing personnel and equipment to statewide mutual aid incidents and pre-positioning requests is normally fully recovered through the California Fire Assistance Agreement process. It is not anticipated this will result in an increased cost, however there are circumstances where costs incurred in a particular fiscal year may not be reimbursed to the District until the following fiscal year due to reimbursement processing timelines from the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services.
BACKGROUND:

    It is becoming the norm in the California fire service to deploy senior chief officers for long-term incidents within an operational area and increasingly throughout the state in support of the mutual aid system. The reality of a weaker statewide mutual aid system since the Great Recession, coupled with record hot fire seasons, drought, and the myriad of now “largest ever” fires year after year has resulted in the need for individual agencies to provide assistance, if they can, to an extent we haven’t experienced before. There are

      
    fewer resources available for increased large fire activity throughout the state and we are all being asked to provide as much support to the system as possible. This often results in sending our unrepresented fire management personnel to fill overhead positions due to a lack of resource availability throughout the Contra Costa operational area and, indeed, throughout the state.  
      
    The District, through the California Fire Assistance Agreement (CFAA) receives reimbursement for the direct hourly costs of each position we send on a mutual aid assignment, plus an additional 10% administrative charge.  
      
    To allow for special circumstance overtime, the Management Resolution for the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District has been modified in the following ways:
    1. Sections 1.15 - No Overtime Pay, Holiday Pay, or Comp Time and 9.10 - Overtime Exempt Exclusion were modified to allow for the new special circumstance overtime.
    2. Section 9.12 - Special Circumstance Overtime Compensation was added to allow for special circumstance overtime. This new pay will apply to all employees listed in the resolution and will be straight time pay for hours worked above the normal work hours in certain limited circumstances.
    3. The remainder of Section 9 was renumbered accordingly.
      

    CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

    Unrepresented safety management employees would not be eligible to be compensated for work beyond their normal working hours while assigned to significant incidents, prepositioning requests, and statewide mutual aid incidents requiring 24-hour work cycles with commitments often ranging from 7 to 14 days.

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