The San Marcos City Council and the San Marcos Police Officers Association continued their meet and confer negotiations Thursday in an effort to move forward in the finalizing of a new agreement that takes into account wages, hours of employment and other terms and conditions of employment for officers of the rank of commander and under.
Two of the many key issues at hand in this still early stage of negotiations were the need to define insubordination, and whether or not an officer’s letter of reprimand should or could at any time be made public.
The meeting began at 9 a.m. with City Manager Stephanie Reyes calling everyone to the table. At the start, there were some standard procedural questions to address including whether or not live streaming of the meetings would be part of the process going forward. The parties chose to take time to enter into caucus discussions to hammer out these details.
