Drafter
Clerk 01/31/2011
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AN ORDINANCE relating to labor relations, defining the labor policy committee and labor implementation committee; amending Ordinance 10631, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.16.015; and declaring an emergency.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. The council finds that it is beneficial and efficient for the full council to consider and act on labor policies and that it is most appropriate that final action on such policies take place during a council meeting.
B. The council further finds that it shall be beneficial and efficient for the duties of the labor implementation committee under this chapter to be performed by the various council standing committees, with respect to those bargaining units whose employees' functions are within the substantive policy area assigned to the standing committee pursuant to council motion.
C. Consistent with the county charter, the council adopts motions related to the organization and administration of the council, including but not limited to the duties of the council and its standing committees.
D. Because the council is reorganizing its committees by motion effective today, including modifying committee names, duties, and committee and council meeting times, this ordinance must be effective immediately to ensure that this ordinance allocating the duties of the labor implementation and labor policy committee as set forth in K.C.C. chapter 3.16, which the prior organizational motion designated in two different committees, be enacted and effective contemporaneously with the reorganization of the council.
SECTION 2. Ordinance 10631, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.16.015 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
Unless the text clearly indicates otherwise, as used in this chapter, the following words shall have the meanings set forth in this section:
A. "Corrections officer" means any full-time, fully compensated uniformed correctional officer or sergeant who works for the department of adult detention (King County jail).
B. "Bargaining representative" means any lawful organization which has as one of its primary purposes the representation of employees in their employment relations with King County.
C. "Bargaining agent" means the King County executive.
D. "Public employer" means King County.
E. "Commission" means the Public Employment Relations Commission.
F. "Executive director" means the executive director of the Commission.
G. "911 operator" means any full-time, fully compensated communications specialist or communications specialist supervisor who works for the department of public safety.
H. "Labor policy committee" or "policy committee" means the King County council ((committee designated by the council by motion as the committee responsible for establishing labor policy)).
I. "Labor implementation committee" or "implementation committee" means ((the)) each King County council committee whose subject matter, as designated by the council by motion ((as the committee responsible for implementing labor policy)), and to which legislation is referred by the council chair under K.C.C. 1.24.015.
J. "Labor policy" or "policy" means those general principles which work to implement the intent of this chapter and guide negotiations for wages, benefits, working conditions and other terms of employment.
SECTION 3. The county council finds as a fact and declares that an emergency
exists and that this ordinance is necessary for the immediate preservation of public peace, health or safety or for the support of county government and its existing public institutions.