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File Number: 15-019 <br />TO: City Council <br />FROM: Chris Zapata <br />City Manager <br />BY: Rich Pio Roda <br />City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: January 20, 2015 <br />City Attorney <br />FINANCE REVIEW: David Baum <br />Finance Director <br />Staff Report <br />Agenda Section: CONSENT CALENDAR <br />Agenda Number: 8.1-1. <br />TITLE: Staff Report for a Resolution Extending the Term of the Current Employment <br />Agreement with City Manager Chris Zapata <br />SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS <br />The City Council is negotiating terms and conditions of a new employment agreement with <br />San Leandro's City Manager, Chris Zapata. Mr. Zapata's employment agreement <br />automatically terminates January 30, 2015. The parties anticipate that the negotiation of a <br />new employment agreement with Mr. Zapata will not conclude by January 30, 2015. <br />Therefore, to avoid a technical default of the employment agreement, the City Council should <br />consider an extension to the term of the employment agreement - under the current <br />agreement's conditions and provisions - for six months. <br />BACKGROUND <br />The City Council's employment agreement with Mr. Zapata was executed January 17, 2012. <br />The termination of the agreement is January 30, 2015. The City Council and Mr. Zapata are <br />currently engaged in good faith negotiations on the terms, conditions, and provisions of a new <br />employment agreement. The parties intend to complete the negotiation of a new employment <br />agreement within the next 30 days, so that a new agreement is presented for review and <br />approval by the City Council in accordance with the Brown Act. In order to encompass this <br />negotiation period, address any contingencies that may necessitate further time to consider <br />and analyze provisions, and to not have to return to the City Council for an additional <br />extension of the term, it is the parties' intention to extend the City Manager's employment <br />agreement for six months, under its current conditions and provisions. <br />Analysis <br />To avoid a technical default of the Agreement, and maintain continuity of purpose, it is in the <br />parties' best interest to extend the term of the current agreement while good faith negotiations <br />on a new agreement continue. <br />City of San Leandro Page 1 Printed on 1113/2015 <br />