HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 5662 RESOLUTION NO. 5662
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF DOWNEY AMENDING RESOLUTION NO. 5515
ESTABLISHING THE BENEFITS PAYABLE TO EMPLOYEES
IN CLASSIFICATIONS DESIGNATED AS EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT,
MIDDLE MANAGEMENT AND CONFIDENTIAL /EXEMPT
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DOWNEY DOES RESOLVE TO
AMEND THOSE SECTIONS OF RESOLUTION NO. 5515 AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 4. ATTENDANCE AND LEAVES
Pursuant to Section 14, Article IX, of the Personnel Management Rules and
Regulations, employees in the Unclassified service of the City are subject to
the provisions of Article IX of the Personnel Management Rules and
Regulations. In addition, Executive Management, Middle Management and
Confidential Exempt employees are subject to the following:
A. Annual Vacation Leave
1. Vacation Accrual.
a. Executive Management employees shall accrue one - hundred sixty
(160) hours per year.
b. Middle Management employees shall accrue annual vacation
leave as follows:
Years of Service Hours Per Year
0 - 5 120
6 - 10 136
11+ 160
c. Confidential /Exempt employees shall accrue annual vacation
leave as follows:
Years of Service Hours Per Year
0 - 3 80
4 -5 96
6 - 10 120
11 - 15 136
16+ 160
(A(2) Vacation Policy subsection.)
c. Vacation shall be accrued on a monthly basis by dividing
twelve (12) into the number of eligible vacation hours as set forth in Section
4(A) above, to which the employee is eligible to receive based upon the
employee's years of service with the City.
(B(2) Sick Leave subsection.)
2. Sick leave shall be paid to covered employees at the rate of
•--• eight hours per month of service. Sick leave shall not be considered a
privilege which an employee may use at his discretion but shall be allowed
only in case of necessity and actual sickness or disability. Unused sick
leave shall accrue without limit on accumulation.
(B(7) Sick Leave subsection.)
7. Sick Leave Payoff Upon Retirement or Death. Covered employees
shall be paid fifty percent (50 %) of any sick leave at his death or
retirement, up to a maximum of seven hundred twenty (720) hours pay for
fourteen hundred and forty (1440) hours accumulation. Unless otherwise
specified by the employee, such benefits shall be paid to the beneficiary of
the employee's City life insurance policy in the event of the employee's
death, OR, upon retirement of an elgible employee, the employee may request
that unused accumulated sick leave be applied to pay full premiums for his
City health insurance coverage on the following basis:
a. Forty percent (40 %) of the days accumulated, starting with
the oldest days first, shall be deducted.
b. The remaining sixty percent (60 %) shall be applied to the
cost of health insurance premiums.
(B(9) Sick Leave subsection.)
9. Conversion of Sick Leave to Vacation. Employees who become
entitled to accrue sick leave allowance which has not been used, may convert
each two (2) hours of accumulated sick leave to one (1) additional hour of
vacation, after having accumulated six hundred forty (640) hours of sick leave
and providing that not more than forty (40) hours of additional vacation days
may be so converted in any one (1) fiscal year.
D. Personal Leave. With approval of the department head or City
Manager, twenty -four (24) hours per year of an employee's sick leave may be
used on personal matters which are of an unseen combination of circumstances
which call for immediate action or to add one additional hour per holiday as
covered in Section 4(L). Such matters shall be considered as those events or
occurrences which a reasonable prudent person would not or could not postpone
to a subsequent time. The nature of the matter shall be explained to the
immediate supervisor and shall be granted with his approval. Such personal
leave shall not be cumulative from year to year.
F. Employee Disability Leave.
1. This Section establishes a disability leave plan at seventy -five
percent (75 %) of the base salary for employees having more than one (1) year
• continuous service with the City and who have exhausted all accumulated sick
leave, vacation and compensatory time due to non - industrial illness or injury
under the following eligibility schedule:
Maximum Time Allowance (Hours)
Additional
Before After
Years of Service Reimbursement Reimbursement Total
1 through 5 240 120 360
6 through 10 360 184 544
Over 10 480 240 720
3. After the employee returns to work, the employee shall reimburse
the City one -half (1/2) of the time used for such employee disability leave at
a minimum rate of four (4) hours of sick leave per month or may contribute
vacation to accelerate employee's reimbursement to the City for providing the
benefits under this Section.
4. When the "maximum time allowance" has been reimbursed as set
forth above, the employee shall be eligible to apply for additional disability
leave on the basis of eight (8) hours leave for each four (4) hours reimbursed
to the City; provided that no employee shall receive more than the "total" set
forth above for his/her length of service, during his entire employment with
the City.
I. Executive Leave. Executive Management and Middle Management
employees are eligible for Executive Leave as outlined below. The use of such
Executive Leave time shall be governed by regulations distributed by the City
Manager.
1. Executive Management - Eight (8) hours per quarter (not
cumulative and discretionary with City Manager approval.)
2. Middle Management - Eight (8) hours each four months (not
cumulative and discretionary with City Manager approval.)
L. Holidays. Covered employees shall receive eight (8) hours of pay for
each of the following holidays.
1. New Year's Day
2. Lincoln's Birthday
3. Washington's Birthday (President's Day)
4. Memorial Day
5. Independence Day
6. Labor Day
7. Veteran's Day
8. Thanksgiving Day
9. Day after Thanksgiving
10. Day before Christmas
11. Christmas Day
When a holiday falls on a weekday which is an employee's regular day off,
the employee shall receive eight (8) hours of compensatory time at straight
time. When a holiday falls on a day an employee is scheduled to work nine
hours, and the employee takes the day off, the employee shall be able to add
one hour by choosing vacation, compensatory time, personal leave, or time
without pay. Sick leave, other than personal leave, may not be used to
supplement the holiday hours.
The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of the resolution and
provide for the distribution thereof.
APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 9 th day of March , 1993.
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Mayor Diane P. Boggs! f
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/° I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution was duly adopted by the
City Council of the City of Downey at a regular meeting thereof held on
the 9th day of March , 1993, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: 5 Council Members: Riley, Brazelton, Lawrence, McCaughan, Boggs
NOES: 0 Council Members: None
ABSENT: 0 Council Members: None
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