The Fire Division shall not employ full-time personnel. All employees are part-time employees and shall be compensated for activities. With the recommendation of the Fire Administrator, the City Manager shall prescribe wage scales and pay dates for Fire Division personnel, and present the recommendation to Council for their approval.
(a) All personnel shall be paid bi-weekly and compensated based on their level of training as specified below.
(1) Firefighter $13.00
(2) Firefighter/EMT A $17.00
(3) Firefighter/EMT B $16.00
(4) Firefighter/paramedic $18.00
(5) Lieutenant Base + $1.00
(6) Captain Base + $1.50
(7) Assistant Chief $20.00
(8) Chief/Administrator $21.75
(9) Trainee Federal minimum wage
(b) In addition to compensation set forth above the Fire Administrator shall be compensated in the amount of four hundred eighty dollars ($480.00) per pay period. The Assistant Chiefs shall be compensated at a rate of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) per pay period.
(c) Personnel responding from home shall be paid a minimum of one hour's wages. Employees shall be compensated for subsequent time worked in accordance with the above fee schedule and based on actual time worked in quarter-hour increments. Timekeeping shall be based on dispatch logs. Once in quarters, an additional 15 minutes shall be allotted for the clean-up of apparatus. Line officers may approve additional clean-up time based on the complexity and severity of the operation.
(d) Employees involved in fire protection activities as defined by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as Amended (FLSA), Section 3(y), shall be scheduled for duty for no more than 212 hours in a 28-day period as allowed by the FLSA, Section 7(k).
(e) Other employees of the Fire Division shall be scheduled for no more than 78 hours in a 14-day period.
(f) Employees who work on the holidays listed below shall be paid at a rate of time and a half of their normal pay rate.
July 4th |
Thanksgiving |
Christmas Eve |
Christmas Day |
New Year’s Eve |
New Year’s Day |
(g) Substitutions and shift fills shall be managed in accordance with the FLSA, Section 7(p)3 and shall be excluded in the calculation of hours for which the employee is entitled to overtime compensation.
(h) Employees who are working a Battalion Supervisor shift will continue to be paid their regular rate of pay for the first two hours of Battalion shift. After the first two hours, the employee shall receive an “on-call” pay as compensation for remaining in a “ready” state to respond promptly to alarms, at a rate of five dollars ($5.00) per hour. If the employee responds to an alarm during this “on-call” status, they shall be paid their normal paid-per-call” rate in lieu of the “on-call” pay.
(Ord. 04-48. Passed 9-20-04; Ord. 08-17. Passed 4-21-08; Ord. 08-28. Passed 7-7-08; Ord. 14-29. Passed 6-2-14; Ord. 14-32. Passed 7-7-14; Ord. 16-20. Passed 6-20-16; Ord. 19-06. Passed 4-1-19; Ord. 2022-02. Passed 1-18-22; Ord. 2023-09. Passed 2-21-23.)