(a) Full-Time Department Heads and Department Superintendents who are salaried employees and are required to work more than eight hours in any day during any pay period, with the knowledge and approval of the City Manager, shall be permitted to flex their work schedules during the same pay period, with the permission of the City Manager, in order to reduce their work schedule during that pay period by any hours worked in excess of eight hours in any day during that pay period. Such flex hours shall be credited on an hour to hour basis for any hours worked in excess of eight (8) hours in any day during the pay period.
(b) In the event that due to work demands with respect to their position and/or denial of permission to flex their schedules by the City Manager, any Full-Time Department Head or Superintendent is unable to flex their schedule within any pay period to account for hours worked in excess of eight (8) hours in any day during the pay period, such employee shall earn “credit hours” for those hours worked in excess of eight (8) hours in any day during the pay period. Such employee shall earn one and one-half (1½) credit hours for each hour worked in excess of eight (8) hours in any day and may not accumulate more than seventy-five (75) credit hours without using such hours as paid leave. Any credit hours accumulated shall be used prior to utilizing any vacation leave. Unused credit hours may not be carried over from year to year. An employee earning credit hours may cash out earned credit hours by providing notice to the City Manager and Director of Finance prior to the end of each calendar quarter of their desire to cash out any unused earned credit hours for that quarter. In that event, such employee shall be paid out for any unused credit hours earned during that quarter in the second pay period of the month for the month following the end of each quarter.
(Ord. 2023-37. Passed 10-6-23.)