EXPLANATION
This ordinance accepts the collective bargaining agreement between the City of Columbus and Fraternal of Police, Capital City Lodge #9, covering the period December 9, 2014 through December 8, 2017.
All Articles of this agreement and attachments thereto have been approved by the City and the Lodge. A signed agreement will be on file in the Department of Human Resources.
Emergency action is recommended in order to timely implement the terms of the agreement.
TITLE
To accept the proposed collective bargaining agreement in its entirety between the City of Columbus and Fraternal Order of Police, Capital City Lodge #9, December 9, 2014 -December 8, 2017, to provide for wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment for employees in the bargaining units; and to declare an emergency.
BODY
WHEREAS, the parties entered into a tentative agreement during the course of negotiations; and
WHEREAS, the membership of the Fraternal Order of Police, Capital City Lodge #9 ratified the agreement on November 14, 2014; and
WHEREAS, the City Council is asked to accept the entire collective bargaining agreement; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City in that it is immediately necessary to accept the collective bargaining agreement between the City and Fraternal Order of Police, Capital City Lodge #9, December 9, 2014 -December 8, 2017, to provide for wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment for employees in the bargaining units, thereby preserving the public peace, property, health, safety, and welfare; Now, Therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. The Council of the City of Columbus hereby accepts the proposed collective bargaining agreement between the City and the Fraternal Order of Police, Capital City Lodge #9, attached hereto and incorporated herein in its entirety as if fully rewritten herein, to establish the wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment for employees in the bargaining units, as specified and stated in the attachment. A copy of the collective bargaining agreement will be kept on file in the Office of the City Clerk and the Department of Human Resources and will not be printed in the City Bulletin as a part thereof.
Section 2. If any section of this Ordinance, including any article, section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of the collective bargaining agreement, for any reason, is held to be unconstitutional or invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions or sections of this ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed the ordinance, and each section hereof, including any article, section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of the collective bargaining agreement, irrespective of the fact that any one or more articles, sections, subsections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases may be declared unconstitutional or invalid.
Section 3. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure, and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten (10) days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.