PORT OF SEATTLE

MEMORANDUM

COMMISSION AGENDA

Item No.

Date of Meeting

February 1, 2011

DATE: January 27, 2011

TO: Tay Yoshitani, Chief Executive Officer

FROM: Trish Murphy, Labor Relations Manager

SUBJECT: Memorandum of Understanding between the Port of Seattle and the Teamsters

Local Union No. 117 representing Police Officers regarding outsourcing

background investigations.

REQUESTED ACTION:

Request for authorization for the Chief Executive Officer to execute a Memorandum of

Understanding between the Port of Seattle and Teamsters Local Union No. 117 representing the

Police Officer bargaining unit regarding outsourcing background investigations.

BACKGROUND:

This agreement covers the Police Officer bargaining unit in the Police Department. The

bargaining unit currently consists of 83 Police Officer positions.

SCOPE OF THE AGREEMENT:

This memorandum covers background investigation work normally performed by Detectives in

the Police Officer bargaining unit in the POS Police Department. This memorandum will

authorize the Police Department to temporarily outsource background investigations of Police

Specialists and Police/Fire Communication Specialists to private service providers. The

agreement does not restrict the Port in its decision as to which service provider(s) to utilize. This

is a one-time, non-precedent setting agreement.

The parties entered into this agreement because of the need to timely perform Police Specialist

and Police/Fire Communication Specialist background investigations when necessary, and

current workload issues limit the Detectives’ ability to conduct the investigations in the

timeframe needed. The Detectives continue to perform Police Officer background

investigations.

Term of the Agreement

The agreement will remain in effect through December 31, 2011.