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MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING <br />This Memorandum of Understanding (this "MOU") is made on I October 10 , 2023 (the <br />"Effective Date") and sets forth the agreement between the City of South Bend, Indiana (the <br />"City"), and Teamsters Local Union No. 364, affiliated with the International Brotherhood of <br />Teamsters of America (the "Union") (collectively, the "Parties"). <br />RECITALS <br />WHEREAS, the Parties entered into a Master Agreement ("Agreement") to provide for <br />equitable and peaceful adjustment of differences which may arise, further a mutual and voluntary <br />effort to promote and maintain sound labor relations, and to establish other conditions of <br />employment for the calendar years 2022-2024; and <br />WHEREAS, the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana ("Common Council") <br />passed Ordinance Number 7997-89 on July 24, 1989, fixing the maximum wages and monetary <br />fringe benefits for Teamsters Union employees of the City for the calendar years 1990 through <br />1992. Further, each subsequent contract cycle, the Common Council has passed an ordinance <br />fixing the maximum wages for Union employees, most recently on October 10, 2022 in Ordinance <br />Number 10893-22 for calendar year 2023 (the "Salary Ordinance"). <br />WHEREAS, the Parties mutually desire to amend the Salary Ordinance to correct a <br />scrivener's error in the hourly rates for the Machinist IV and V positions in the Equipment <br />Services Work Group, to separately list certain Group Leader positions within the Venues Parks & <br />Arts Work Group at the same rate of pay as existing Group Leaders, and to add two new positions <br />within the Water Works Division as part of restructuring within the Customer Service Work <br />Group. <br />NOW, THEREFORE, the Parties agree as follows: <br />1. The City will file an amended Salary Ordinance requesting that the Common <br />Council amend the Salary Ordinance as follows: <br />a. Equipment Services Work Group <br />2021 <br />2021 <br />Equivalent <br />2022 <br />2023 <br />2024 <br />Rate <br />Rate <br />Rate <br />Rate <br />Rate <br />Machinist IV <br />20.27 <br />22.78 <br />23.35 <br />23.82 <br />24.29 <br />IMachinist V* <br />21.42 <br />25.43 <br />26.07 <br />26.59 <br />27.12 <br />b. Venues Parks & Arts Work Group <br />2021 <br />Rate <br />2022 Rate <br />R to <br />2024 Rate <br />Group Leader- <br />Gentralized Mowing <br />19.42 <br />19.91 <br />20.30 <br />20.71 <br />1942. <br />19. 1 <br />0.30 <br />20.71 <br />