Pay Cuts for City Employees & Cops Could be Extended to 2014

Benicia isn't out of the fiscal woods yet, and next week the city council could extend a 10 percent pay cut for employees by one more year.

"During the past two fiscal years, all City of Benicia employees took compensation concessions amounting to approximately $2 million dollars in ongoing structural savings to the City," a city staff report states. "These concessions greatly assisted the City in addressing budget shortfalls in both the prior and current fiscal years."

The Benicia City Council on Tuesday will consider whether to extend the current cuts to June 30, 2014.

The staff report says all of the city's bargaining units for full-time employees–with the exception of firefighters, which are part of a different labor agreement–have agreed to extend the cuts.

A labor union for part-time city employees is currently in talks with the city, the staff report states.

The report says the city may also eliminate an extra contribution for healthcare costs, "as the City has implemented less costly health care options, and the majority of the workforce is moving towards lower cost plans."

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Benicia City Council meeting
6:30 p.m. Tuesday
250 East L St.

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