Police Union Contract 2021-2024

The term of the existing NEPBA Local #240 Collective Bargaining Agreement ends on March 31, 2021.  In early March 2020, the Select Board amended the existing contract with a sidebar agreement to include wage and benefit adjustments as recommended by the Compensation Study.  The March 2020 sidebar agreement took wage and benefit changes off the table for the next contract.  This contributed to a positive and efficient bargaining session for the 2021-2024 agreement.  The cost items for the Collective Bargaining Agreement will be voted on by residents at the Town Meeting Ballot Session on March 9 , 2021.

March 9, 2021 (Town Meeting Ballot Session)

Voters approved the cost items of the collective bargaining agreement by a vote of 677 to 290 (70%).  The new three-year contract is effecrtive April 1, 2021.

December 14, 2020 (Select Board Meeting)

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The Town Administrator and Police Chief recently negotiated the terms of a new contract with the Police union.  The result of negotiations (Tentative Agreement) includes a three-year term which ratifies the earned-time benefit adjustments, provides a three-hour minimum for court and general callbacks, increases the vendor-paid outside detail rate to $49 per hour, includes all union members in the holiday pay structure, and creates a Master Patrol Officer designation in 2022. 

1. See attached, Barrington Collective Bargaining Cover Sheet
   1. Updated to show new three-year term.
2. See attached, Barrington Collective Bargaining Art. I Agreement
   1. Updated to show new three-year term.
3. See attached, Barrington Collective Bargaining Article XVI Outside Details
   1. Updated to a $49 per hour outside detail rate.
4. See attached, Barrington Collective Bargaining Article XVII Holidays
   1. Updated to include all union members in the holiday pay structure; this adds one employee.
   2. This is a cost item with an estimated $2,162 increase in 2021.
5. See attached, Barrington Collective Bargaining Article XVIII Time Off Benefits
   1. Updated to include the benefit adjustments agreed upon in the March 2020 sidebar agreement.
6. See attached, Barrington Collective Bargaining Article XXIV Wages and Benefits
   1. Updated to include the wage adjustments agreed upon in the March 2020 sidebar agreement.  Updated to include the Court/Call Back three-hour minimum.  Updated to include the Master Patrol Officer Designation effective 2022.
   2. This is a cost item with an estimated $2,625 increase in 2021 for a three-hour minimum versus a two-hour minimum.  The Master Patrol Officer is estimated to increase the 2022 budget by $7,000 with an additional $2,000 in 2023. 
7. See attached, Barrington Collective Bargaining Article XXV Duration
   1. Updated to show new three-year term.
8. See attached, Barrington Collective Bargaining Master Patrol Officer SOP
   1. Draft Standard Operating Procedure detailing the requirements of the Master Patrol Office designation.
   2. This is a cost item; the Master Patrol Officer is estimated to increase the 2022 budget by $7,000 with an additional $2,000 in 2023. 

Motion to approve the tentative collective bargaining agreement for inclusion in the 2021 warrant and recommend approval of the cost items by Town voters at the annual meeting by Chairperson Hardekopf, seconded by Selectperson Bailey. Roll Call vote: Ayer – Present, Bailey – Aye, Knapp – Aye, Saccoccia – Aye, Hardekopf – Aye. The motion passed.

March 9, 2020 (Select Board Meeting)

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1. At the January 27^th meeting, the Select Board voted to support the recommendations of the Compensation Study.  Changes for union employees required mutual agreement of the Union.  The Select Board supported making the attached proposal to the Police Union for their consideration.  The Police Union has agreed.
   1. See attached, Police Union Sidebar Agreement – 200305

The Police Union has agreed to the terms of the sidebar agreement and that the updated terms will not be open for alteration at the next contract negotiation.

Motion to approve the Police Union amended collective bargaining agreement by Selectperson Hardekopf, seconded by Selectperson Bailey. Ayer – Aye, Bailey – Aye, Hardekopf – Aye, Knapp – Aye. The motion passed.

Administrator MacIver reminded all that this agreement as well as the compensation study changes are contingent upon approval by voters of the Town’s 2020 operating budget at the March 10^th vote.