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I Che workplace. The Airport Authority0s resolution incorporates a Drug Free Workplace Policy similar to the City of Colton's plus additional requirements regulating employee conduct including pre-employment, periodic, random, post -accident, reasonable cause and return to duty drug testing. 2. Pre-employment drug testing - Various public and private employers test some or all prospective new hires for the presence of illegal drugs in their bodies as part of their pre-employment physical examinations. The City of Colton does not include a drug screen in its pre-employment testing program. If the City Council or City Manager desire such testing to be done, his staff will evaluate various options and present you with a report and recommendations. 3. Drug testing for current employees - Director Johnson and his staff met with representatives of the cityfs six bargaining units in 1991 in an attempt to negotiate a drug testing policy for current employees. They met with varying degrees of resistance and, for a variety of reasons, suspended those negotiations. If the it Council desires that such negotiations resume. he will provide the Council with a copy of the City's last proposal as of late 1991 which incorporated suggestions from the Management Team, and various emplovee associations, plus a list of outstanding issues. Director Johnson recommended that if such a poli icy is to be negotiated that there be one policy governing all c ity employees and not one for each bargaining unit. Discussion followed. Councilmember Beltran asked that Director Johnson redraft the City's policy and submit it to the City Council for final adoption before the first part of the year and along with this, that new M.O.U.s be adopted. Mayor Gonzales Sit id was easy for the International Airport Authority to adopt al I the policy, they have no employees at this time. Mayor Gonzales said the employees and theit associations have been working very . closely with the City for many years and he does not want to see that relationship destroyed in this process. Councilmember Sandoval said there has been a change on the Council since the 1991 attempt to negotiate with the employees and the associations on this matter and he for one is in favor of going forward and would like to see a specific recommendation. Councilmember Bennett said she also is in favor* however, she would like to see a cost for the program first. On City Council consensus, staff was instructed to draft a. policy which 'incorporates the additional requirements regulating employee conduct including pre-employment, periodic, random, post -accident, reasonable cause and return to duty drug testing. PLiblic Safety 0