The City of Ferndale (City) is considering an Agreement to
provide fire protection to Royal Oak Township (Township).
The City and the Ferndale Firefighters Association, Local 812
(Union) have met and discussed what will occur should the Agreement
be adopted by the City and Township and actually implemented.
The City and the Union have agreed to the following should the
Fire Protection Agreement between the City and Township be adopted
and actually implemented:
The City will agree to maintain two Captain positions as long as
the Agreement between the City and Township is adopted and is in
operation.
The City is presently budgeted for 31 Firefighters. The City will
hire the two (2) additional Firefighters subsequent to the Agreement
with Royal Oak Township. The City agrees that it will maintain 33
Firefighters if an agreement is adopted by the City and Township, as
long as the City is providing fire protective services to the
Township under that agreement and as long as the Township is not in
default under its payment obligations to the City; and the
circumstances under Number 4 below. The hiring process will begin
within thirty (30) days after the City begins to provide fire
protective services to the Township while striving to hire the
additional Firefighters as soon as possible after the Township has
paid its first three (3) monthly payments to the City.
The Union agrees that the daily shift staffing provisions between
the City and the Union will remain at an eight-man minimum per day.
The City will not be required to maintain the staffing provision
in Number 2 above if the City suffers a reduction in State Shared
Revenue, loss of the Pleasant Ridge Fire Contract or other
significant impairments of its financial condition.
This is the entire Agreement between the parties over this issue.
Subject to City Council approval.
Signed this ___2nd__ day of August, 2005 by:
FOR THE CITY
Thomas W. Barwin, 7/25/05
FOR THE UNION
Brian E. Batten, 8/2/05
