MEMORANDUM 0) UJ :

MAR 21 1977

Mayor and Council “March 18th, 1977

L.D. Pollock
City Administrator

Re: 1977 R.C.M.P. Contract

We have now received copies of the revised R.C.M.P. Contract which has
been negotiated with our Provincial Attorney-General's Department and
the R.C.M.P. This type of Contract will be uniform throughout the
Province. I have also attached a copy of a summary that lists the
changes from the Old Contract to the New Contract. I believe the
explanations are quite complete. I might draw your attention to the
note on the right hand column of Page 4 of the summary sheets where it
refers to items (g), (h), (i), and (4), referring to the fact that these
expenses are municipal responsibility unless the Province accepts the
responsibility. I have noted in pencil along side that the Provincial
Government has agreed to accept the cost of (h) and (j) in this list and
(g) and (i) will remain as municipal responsibilities.

I have tried to come up with some comparison of costs to indicate how
the New Contract provisions would affect R.C.M.P. costs and it is very
difficult to detect any major increase or decrease in the new method of
cost allocation. It would appear initially that there has been some
reduction due to the fact that based on actual costs per man, the increase
from 1974 to 1975 (under the Old Contract method) rose 17% per man,
whereas the increase in costs from 1975 to 1976 (under the New Contract
provision) rose only 9%. This increase does not seem excessive when one
considers that in addition to the Manpower cost increases, it also
includes an increase from 50% to 53% per man for the first 5 men,

We will be paying Overtime under the New Contract, however, you will
note that they have discontinued charging us for car mileage and this
does not represent too much of a change. Based on our first six months’
experience, the Overtime costs are actually less than what the old
charges were for mileage.

My own conclusion is that the rates per man will not increase drastically
under the new formula and I would recommend that the Contract be adopted.
The only additional comment I might make is that it is reported that

much of the Overtime incurred is due to tie-ups in Court and we might
write a letter to the Attorney-General's Department objecting to having

to pay extensive Overtime due to Court delays and ask the Attorney-
General's Department to reconsider a better system of allocating Overtime.

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