The schedule attached to Ordinance 3262 establishes wage rates for those positions in the administration (unless otherwise noted), Finance, Fire, Police, Recreation, Streets, Wastewater, Zoning, Water, and Income Tax Departments, payable bi-weekly (unless otherwise noted), excluding those employees compensated under separate bargaining agreements or other City policy.
(a) Full-time and part-time employees shall be paid according to the pay scale attached for the year 2020.
(b) A merit bonus determined and approved by the City Manager may be awarded to full-time employees in the fourth quarter of the current calendar year. Full-time employees must work ten full calendar months during the current year to be eligible for a merit bonus payment. The maximum bonus shall not exceed eight hundred dollars ($800.00). Bonus payments shall not become a part of the employee's base salary.
(c) A merit bonus may be awarded to part-time employees that are regularly scheduled for forty hours or more per pay period. Part-time employees must work ten full calendar months during the current year to be eligible for a merit bonus payment. The City Manager will approve any bonus payments. The maximum bonus shall not exceed two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00). Bonus payments shall not become part of the employee's base salary.
(d) Step 1 is the starting salary for each position. Department heads shall review with the City Manager whether step increases have been earned for each employee in the department on a semi-annual basis or sooner. The City Manager has the sole authority to award step increases for employees.
(e) The City Manager is authorized to start a new employee at a rate higher than Step 1 or accelerate an existing employee more than one step based on work experience, educational background and/or performance.
(f) The City Manager is authorized to compensate employees in addition to their regular pay rate for special project assignments.
(g) In the event of a payroll overpayment, the employee shall cooperate with the Finance Director to determine a reasonable repayment schedule. The City Manager shall have the authority to order deductions of up to thirty percent of the employee's subsequent paychecks to repay the overpayment if the employee and Finance Director cannot reach a repayment agreement.
(h) In the event of a payroll underpayment, the City will correct the underpayment in the next pay period following the employee's notice to the City of the underpayment, and the City Manager's confirmation that an underpayment occurred.
(i) Each member of the Civil Service Commission shall be paid twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each civil service examination test administered and for each meeting attended by the Commission members.
(Ord. 2785. Passed 12-23-02; Ord. 2821. Passed 12-22-03; Ord. 2858. Passed 12-13-04; Ord. 2895. Passed 12-19-05; Ord. 2926. Passed 12-18-06; Ord. 2952. Passed 11-26-07; Ord. 2980. Passed 12-8-08; Ord. 3013. Passed 12-14-09; Ord. 3072. Passed 12-19-11; Ord. 3097, passed 12-10-12; Ord. 3129. Passed 12-9-13; Ord. 3202. Passed 11-28-16; Ord. 3262. Passed 11-25-19.)