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EXHIBIT 1 Labs do not have a seat at the table and their Governing Bodies have no input or say in the final contract negotiations. 9. The most recent contI:act with the Firefighters was a 7 year Memorandum of Understanding with raises guaranteed each year. In the years that our own City Employees sacrificed their raises to help keep the Budget balanced, the Firefighters were not given the opportunity to help us with that sacrifice. The County held them bound to their contract. 10. This year we will pay $12.4M in salaries and benefits. And we will pay $1.5 M in overtime which is 10% of the total contract. 11. While our salary calculation is based upon the number field staff we employ, our overtime calculation is based upon the total overtime of the county. We pay about $24,000 per employee just in overtime. 12. In the last 3 years, the City of San Leandro has sacrificed our Planning Fire Inspector services to offset some of the increased costs. In fact, we are paying more money now for less front line staff-tl:1an we have ever had. 13. In the last two years the Alameda County Fire Department has added a full time Public Information officer and a full time Emergency Services Manager. The County Fire Department has required us to increase our payment for these overhead services while back here in the City we still do not have our full time fire inspector and are struggling to fmd money to put more cops on the street. 14. This past year, we paidthe County Fire Department over $90,000 for truck maintenance, a cost that used to be handled in-house with our own vehicle maintenance creW. IS.The County Fire Department intends to build and operate a Maintenance Facility using a lease/purchase program to pay for the capital improvements. They cannot guarantee that they won't pass the capital costs on to us through their maintenance charge-out rates. 16. Our fire trucks and engine equipment have been sacrificed year after year to pay for the County overhead increases. We have equipment well past its useful life and the capital program reserves have been diverted to pay the additional operation expenses. 17. There is no expiration date for our contract. These terms will continue forever unless we, the San Leandro City Council, do something about it. The management of the County Fire Department has already told me to expect a $400 - $600k increase to their contract for next year. Half of this year's Measure I Business License Fee revenue has already been absorbed by the County Fire Department $IM Contract increase. The rest of Measure I will be gone within two years, completely absorbed by the Alameda County Fire Department. . This is the Best Kept Secret in San Leandro. The Alameda County Fire Department is a publicy.funded monopoly with no accountability. The costs for this program are growing unchecked and the impact to San Leandro's structural deficit is detrimental. I have spoken with Supervisor Alice Lai-Bitker about our respective roles in overseeing the County Fire Department Budget. She cannot make any decisions regarding the expansion of the Alameda County Fire Department because their budget is not part of the