For City Council Meeting August 25, 2026
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
FROM: Tanya Williams, City Manager
AUTHOR: Tim Sullivan, Assistant City Manager
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Request City Council to: (1) Adopt Resolution No. 8568 Approving a Side Letter Agreement with Rialto City Employees' Association; (2) Adopt Resolution No. 8569 Approving a Side Letter Agreement with Teamsters Mid-Management & Confidential Employee Union; and (3) Authorize the City Manager or Their Designee to Execute all Related Documents.
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RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1) Adopt a Resolution approving a Side Letter Agreement with Rialto City Employees' Association establishing a 4/10 Monday through Thursday workweek;
2) Adopt a Resolution approving a Side Letter Agreement with Teamsters Mid-Management & Confidential Employee Union establishing a 4/10 Monday through Thursday workweek; and
3) Authorize the City Manager or designee to execute all related documents.
BACKGROUND
The City of Rialto is party to Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) with the Rialto City Employees' Association (RCEA) and the Teamsters Mid-Management & Confidential Employee Union (TMMU), each of which governs the wages, hours, and working conditions of the respective bargaining group. Both MOUs were adopted in 2025 and are effective July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2027, and each establishes the work schedule for its group: Article 15, "4/10 Work Schedule and Alternate Work Schedules," in the RCEA MOU, and Article 8, "Work Schedule," in the TMMU MOU.
Under these provisions, employees work a compressed 4/10 schedule of four ten-hour days totaling forty hours per week. Consistent with the newly adopted MOUs, in January 2026 the City provided notice of the Monday-through-Friday City Hall public counter hours and issued individual schedule assignments, including placing certain employees on Tuesday-through-Friday schedules. This changed the prior 4/10 Monday through Thursday work schedul...
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