Open Carry Information
Hope Meet and Confer Agreement
According to the new HOPE Meet and Confer Agreement, all City of Houston part-time and full-time employees will be getting a raise of up to $.50 an hour. The raise will show up starting on your 1/22/16 check. The amount depends on your current base salary (pre-tax) and your paygrade. Please see the handout with the Article 10 description (Meet and Confer Agreement) and two tables with the projected raises in FY16, FY17 and FY18. Please remember that you have to divide the number on the chart by 26 pay periods to get your salary increase. CE Administration will email a link to an additional chart where you can see the salary ranges for each position paygrade. Using that chart, you can calculate where your pay falls in the salary range for your paygrade. Using that information, see the charts on the Article 10 handout to see how much your raise will be. Those staffers that earn the minimum to the midpoint salary range for their paygrade should use the top chart, and the bottom chart should be used by those that earn a salary above the midpoint to the salary cap.
New Security Contract
The City of Houston signed a new contract with another security company named Norred Associates. They will begin on 12/20/15. Many of our current security guards were absorbed by Norred, so you will be seeing familiar faces. Their uniform will be black pants, white shirts but wear different badges. Any issues regarding security should be vetted through John Middleton’s office in SPACES, not GSD Security’s Zach McMahon. Please ignore any previous calls made to your library with information about new guards. The current security guard assignments will remain the same.
