A proposal that will come before the Albert Lea City Council next week regarding concessions with the Teamsters Local 320 union includes a combination of unpaid leave, a reduction in the uniform allowance and a reduction in hourly employees’ holiday pay in an effort to prevent the elimination of one patrol officer from the department.

In what is called a memorandum of understanding between the city and the union, the Teamsters concessions are described as covering $35,000, which is half of the amount needed to save the officer position.

The memorandum did not elaborate on possible options for the city to make up the other half of the position. If the city’s half gets voted upon Monday, the city will have been in violation of the state public records law by failing to divulge those requested details to the Tribune.

Specifically, the memo includes the following Teamsters union concessions:

Employees will either take four hours of unpaid leave during each of the four quarters of the year or donate four hours of holiday time accrual during the last accrual period of each of the quarters.

This equals out to 16 hours of unpaid time or leave hours that will be given back to the city for each employee.

Hourly employees agree to temporarily suspend holiday premium pay, which gives time and a half pay, and instead work each paid holiday for straight time.

Patrol officers will reduce their semi-annual uniform allowance from $350 to $100.

The memo states that when the value of the concessions — $35,000 — is reached, the concessions would be discontinued the following pay period.

Under the memo, the concessions would be null and void on Dec. 31 or if the Police Department drops below 20 full-time patrol officers by means of lay-off, termination, attrition, voluntary separation, retirement, death or promotion.

The agreement will come before the City Council Monday.

The council’s decision will affect the department’s most junior officer, Steve Charboneau, who received his layoff notice Jan. 7 after the union and the city were previously unable to reach an agreement about saving the position.

The position has been in limbo for several months after the council had to cut more than $1 million from its 2010 budget and the Police Department could not find grant funding to save the position.