Impasse

Ryan Carter State Sen. Jack Scott (D-Glendale) will be in Sacramento on Sunday for an evening vote that could be the first step in ending the state's budget stalemate. Senate leaders announced Thursday that they have come to a compromise on a state budget package and will present it Sunday night in the Senate for a vote. The $100-billion plan does not greatly alter education cuts proposed in Gov. Gray Davis' revised budget. The plan also relies on a swap that includes using a half-cent sales tax to pay off a $10.7-billion deficit that carried over from last year, making the state deficit more than $30 billion by the end of this fiscal year.

CITY HALL — The city’s largest employee association voted to reject a proposed one-year contract absent of any pay increase — setting up a potential impasse with the city. The Glendale City Employees’ Assn. fell a few votes short of the two-thirds majority needed to ratify the proposed contract, which was the result of several months of negotiations between the city and the union, Human Resource Director Matt Doyle said Friday. Seven-hundred of the association’s approximately 1,000 members took part in the vote, Doyle said.

More than 200 Glendale Water & Power employees and their union comrades packed City Hall  Tuesday  night to protest a contract that cuts their pay  by  1.75%. Despite the showing, the City Council  -  unable to reach a deal with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 18, the union representing the utility workers  -   voted unanimously,  with one abstention,  to impose the contract, which also requires workers to temporarily pay more for their  own  health insurance.

CITY HALL — In a city where $9.7 million in city budget cuts rarely drew more than a few public comments per hearing, it was regulations for residential window replacements that drew out the masses Tuesday as the City Council revisited its design guidelines. The topic took two hours of public debate and comment alone as homeowners and historical preservation advocates pushed for or against the contentious item du jour at City Hall — vinyl window frames. “We cut [$9.7 million]

GLENDALE — The Glendale College Guild and the college’s administration have reached common ground on salary increases for faculty for the current fiscal year. After a five-hour negotiating session on Thursday, the two sides came to a tentative agreement on salaries, according to Isabelle Saber, the chief negotiator for the guild. The guild and administration have been negotiating for months, and leaders of the faculty guild had said an impasse was likely going into Thursday’s negotiation session, which was the last scheduled session of the school year.

Schwarzenegger vows to veto budget Hours after lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to approve a budget 11 weeks into overtime, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tuesday he will veto the bipartisan agreement because it does not include long-term spending changes he had previously requested. The promised veto moves the historic budget impasse into deeper uncharted territory and will further delay payments to millions of state vendors, health and education institutions that rely on state funding.

The union representing Glendale Water & Power employees has filed a lawsuit asking a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge to order stakeholders to assign mediators to help resolve a months-long contract dispute. The Public Employee Relations Board, a quasi-judicial agency charged with overseeing public bargaining units, has agreed with the city of Glendale in denying a request by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 18 for mediators because the union applied too late.

Councilman Frank Quintero is Glendale's newest mayor following a tense tie vote on the dais last week, with the city's now-former mayor breaking the tie Tuesday. Councilwoman Laura Friedman said before the vote Tuesday that she planned to vote for Quintero because he doesn't plan to run for council next April, and this year would be his last chance to have the title. “It's a courtesy that I would extend to anyone else on the dais,” Friedman said. Quintero took his position immediately after the 3-2 vote, with Councilmen Ara Najarian and Rafi Manoukian dissenting.

After more than two years of contract talks, the Glendale City Council on Tuesday may impose a labor agreement on the union representing Glendale Water & Power employees. On the council's agenda is an item to “unilaterally implement” a contract for fiscal year 2012-13, said City Manager Scott Ochoa. He said the city has the right to approve a contract at the conclusion of good-faith bargaining. The city has been working with the L.A.-based International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 18 since April 2011 to draft a contract and a memorandum of understanding.