TO: Mayor and City Commission
FROM: Cale Curtis, City Manager
DATE: November 25, 2025
Title
RESOLUTION - APPROVING COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT WITH THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIREFIGHTERS, LOCAL #3080 FOR THE PERIOD FROM OCTOBER 1, 2025, THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30, 2028; PROVIDING FOR EFFECTIVE DATE.
BACKGROUND: The following is a summary of some of the proposed amendments to the bargaining agreement:
Compensation
• Pay plan durations:
Firefighter/paramedic - 12 years
Diver Engineer - 10 years
Lieutenant - 7 years
Captain - 7 years
Battalion Chief - 6 years
Fire Marshall - 6 years
Fire Inspector - 12 years
• Effective October 1, 2025, employees to be slotted into pay plan based on total years of service and/or time in ranked position.
• Subject to completion of a minimum of 6 months of employment, step pay base salary increases shall be 4% on October 1, 2026 and 3% on October 1, 2027.
• Short shift administrative duty assignment - 5% over base pay
• Fire Marshall or Fire Inspector on-call standby compensation - $1,500 bi-weekly
• Promoted employees to be slotted into the applicable pay plan at the step that is a rounded 5% pay increase
Departmental Staffing
• Daily minimum of nineteen (19) certified firefighters
Grievances
• Updated language for processing grievances through the appropriate supervisor
• Agreed utilization of American Arbitration Services if Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services does not issue panels of seven (7) names
RECOMMENDATION: For approval.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding to be provided from existing resources within the General Fund.
CONTACT PERSON: Cale Curtis, City Manager