HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTION 2025-086 N.C.S. 06/16/2025
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Resolution No. 2025-086 N.C.S.
of the City of Petaluma, California
RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE CALIFORNIA
GOVERNOR’S OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES (CAL OES) FOR PETALUMA FIRE
DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL WHEN AWAY FROM THEIR OFFICIAL DUTY STATION AND
ASSIGNED TO A STATE EMERGENCY INCIDENT
WHEREAS, the City of Petaluma Fire Department is a department of the City of Petaluma, a California
municipal corporation and charter city located in the County of Sonoma, State of California; and
WHEREAS, it is the City of Petaluma’s obligation to provide to all its employees full compensation in
accordance with all applicable memoranda of understanding (MOUs), personnel rules and policies, the City’s
agreement with the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) and the Public Employees
Retirement Law (PERL), and all other applicable laws and regulations, for employee time worked; and
WHEREAS, the City of Petaluma has in its employ Fire Department response personnel to include the ranks
of Fire Chief, Assistant Fire Chief, Fire Battalion Chief, Fire Marshal, Assistant Fire Marshal, Fire Captain,
Emergency Manager, Emergency Medical Services Coordinator, Lieutenant (Fire Inspector), Fire Engineer, Fire
Engineer/Paramedic, Fire Fighter/Paramedic, and Fire Fighter/EMT; and
WHEREAS, the City’s obligations to compensate its employees apply portal to portal while in the course of
their employment and away from their official duty station and assigned to an emergency incident, in support of
an emergency incident or pre-positioned for emergency response; and
WHEREAS, the City’s obligations to compensate its employees overtime in accordance with current MOUs,
personnel rules and policies, and other applicable law, including the U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act and the
California Labor Code apply while in the course of their employment and away from their official duty station
and assigned to an emergency incident, in support of an emergency incident or pre-positioned for emergency
response; and
WHEREAS, the proposed action is exempt from the requirements of the California Environmental Quality
Act (CEQA) in accordance with CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(4), in that approving this action does not
meet CEQA's definition of a “project,” because the action does not have the potential for resulting either a direct
physical change in the environment or a reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment, and
because this is an action that constitutes organizational or administrative activities of governments that will not
result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Petaluma as follows:
1. Personnel shall be compensated according to the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), Personnel Rules &
Regulations and/or other directives that identify personnel compensation in the workplace.
2. In the event a personnel classification does not have an assigned compensation rate, a “base rate” as set forth
in an organizational policy, administrative directive or similar document will compensate such personnel.
3. The City of Petaluma Fire Department will maintain a current salary survey or acknowledgment of acceptance
of the “base rate” on file with the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, Fire Rescue Division.
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4. Personnel will be compensated (portal to portal) beginning at the time of dispatch to the return to their
jurisdiction when equipment and personnel are in service and available for agency response.
5. Petaluma Fire Department response personnel include the ranks of Fire Chief, Assistant Fire Chief, Fire
Battalion Chief, Fire Marshal, Assistant Fire Marshal, Fire Captain, Emergency Manager, Emergency Medical
Services Coordinator, Lieutenant (Fire Inspector), Fire Engineer, Fire Engineer/Paramedic, Fire
Fighter/Paramedic, and Fire Fighter/EMT.
6. Finds that the proposed action is exempt from the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act
(CEQA) in accordance with CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(4), in that approving this action does not
meet CEQA's definition of a “project,” because the action does not have the potential for resulting either a
direct physical change in the environment or a reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the
environment, and because this is an action that constitutes organizational or administrative activities of
governments that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.
Under the power and authority conferred upon this Council by the Charter of said City.
REFERENCE: I hereby certify the foregoing Resolution was introduced and adopted by the
Council of the City of Petaluma at a Regular meeting on the 16th day of June 2025,
by the following vote:
Approved as to
form:
__________________________
City Attorney
AYES: McDonnell, Barnacle, Cader Thompson, DeCarli, Nau, Quint, Shribbs
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
ATTEST: ______________________________________________
City Clerk
______________________________________________
Mayor
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