Memorandum of Agreement CCPOA and Search and Rescue Coordinators

This Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) is entered into by Clackamas County Sheriff's Office (Agency) and Clackamas County (County), and the Clackamas County Peace Officers Association (Association) (collectively "the Parties").

Background

On November 5, 2025, the Association filed a grievance alleging that the Agency violated the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) by discontinuing a practice of paying two (2) hours of overtime compensation perpay period to Search and Rescue Coordinators (Deputy Sheriff/Sergeants) for on-call duties, which had beenauthorized by then Lieutenant Marcus Mendoza and paid as "equipment maintenance."

The County and Agency expressly denied the allegations set fo11h in the grievance and do not agree with the Association's interpretation of the CBA, any assertion of past practice, or the factual and contractual assertions described in the grievance.

That said, the Parties agreed to put the grievance in abeyance until the Parties could meet and discuss this matterfurther. The Parties met and, without waiving any rights, positions, or defenses, agree to resolve the grievance in the interest of labor-management relations and to clarify compensation related to Search and Rescue on-call assignments.

Agreement

The Parties agree to the following:

1. The MOA is effective as of the date of the last signing party.
2. Within fourteen (14) days of the effective date of this MOA, the Association will withdraw the November 5, 2025, grievance with prejudice.
3. Deputy Sheriffs or Detectives on-call for Search and Rescue will receive a pay rate differential of $75 per day.
4. Sergeants on-call for Search and Rescue will receive a pay rate differential of $95 per day.
5. For purposes of this provision a "day" is defined as a single, continuous twenty-four (24) hour period, beginning at 07:00 a.m. and ending at 06:59 a.m. the following day, regardless of shift assignment or hours worked. Under no circumstances shall more than one (l) on-call day differential bepaid per Search and Rescue coordinator within the same twenty-four (24) hour period.
6. Search and rescue on-call assignments will be handled as follows:
   1. Search and Rescue coordinators may be assigned to on-call status to be available to work when off duty. The number of Search and Rescue coordinators assigned to on-call is at thediscretion of the County.
   2. The County will provide for a bid in no less than one (1) month increments for on call assignments subject to operational need, which shall include priority assignment of on-call needs to employees who were regularly scheduled to work on that day based on team seniority. Search and Rescuecoordinators will select coverage periods in an equitable fashion by team seniority. Unfilled coverage periods will be assigned in order of inverse team seniority.
   3. The County is not precluded from posting shorter periods of on-call assignment for particularoperational needs, which will be filled first voluntarily and if still unfilled will be assigned by inverse team seniority.
   4. Employees are permitted to trade on-call periods with supervisory approval.
7. Any amendments to this MOA must be in writing, signed by authorized representatives of the parties, and must specifically state that it was intended to amend this MOA.
8. Disputes arising from this MOA will be resolved through the CBA grievance process.
9. This MOA, including all benefits and additional wages agreed to herein, applies exclusively to Search and Rescue assignment. No other specialty teams, units, programs, collateral duties, or special assignments are covered by, or entitled to, any benefit under this MOA.
10. Within four (4) full pay periods post the effective date of this MOA, the County will retroactively pay Search and Rescue employees the differential in paragraphs 3 and 4 who volunteered or were assigned on-call Search and Rescue shifts between October I, 2025, and the effective date of this MOA and did not receive the two (2) hours of overtime pay for "equipment maintenance".
11. The Parties agree that prior pay arrangements related to "equipment maintenance" and all other practices related to on-call SAR compensation not agreed to herein will be discontinued.
12. The parties agree to integrate this Agreement in their successor CBA.
13. Nothing in this MOA shall be construed as an admission of a contract violation, acceptance of the grievance allegations, or agreement with the County's or Union's characterization of prior practices.
14. This MOA is non-precedent setting beyond the terms set fotih herein. The MOA constitutes the entire agreement between theparties on the subject matter contained in this MOA and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous written or oral understandings, representations, or communications of eve