Under the council's proposal, management trustees would include DWP General Manager Marcie Edwards and other managers or supervisors she chooses.
Negotiations grew harder, both sides say, after management trustees of the union's benefit fund won an arbitration decision in June requiring nurses to pay $25 to $400 a month toward premiums previously covered entirely by their employers.
By making senior management trustees, I think we will end up with a stronger, better governed sector that is more focused on strategy and risk which in turn leads to more efficient, accountable and resilient organisations.
Following months of increasing financial troubles for the Mount, Edith Wharton's home in Lenox, Mass., the president of the organization that owns and maintains the property has resigned rather than accept a new position in a restructured management, trustees said.
However, the preliminary injunction requires the union to recognize Llewellyn and Fleming's rights and powers as "lawfully appointed" management trustees.
The allegations in the lawsuit paint a picture of D'Arcy running the nonprofits like a personal fiefdom since excluding the management trustees.
The management trustees would be replaced by DWP General Manager Marcie Edwards, who was hired by Garcetti, and other utility managers or supervisors she chooses.
The city also would withdraw its demand that union representatives recognize two new management trustees at the nonprofits who were appointed by the DWP commission and are allied with Garcetti: mayoral counsel Richard Llewellyn and DWP board member Michael Fleming.
On Tuesday, Garcetti spokesman Jeff Millman said while the annual $4 million would have to be paid, the nonprofits' bank accounts were "effectively frozen" because the DWP management trustees had not -- and would not -- authorize spending for the current fiscal year, which began July 1.
