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266.04 HIRING OF CO-OP STUDENTS.
   (a)   Council hereby authorizes participation in the co-operative vocational educational program and hereby sets forth the following qualifications for co-op students:
      (1)   The co-op student must be a duly enrolled student in the North Royalton School System.
      (2)   The student must be one who is authorized and acknowledged by the school administration to be a qualified student participating in such vocational education program.
      (3)   The student must be a resident of the City and be bondable.
      (4)   The student must be willing to work those hours which are designated by the City administration, including Saturday and Sunday, if the need should arise.
   (b)   The Mayor or President of Council and the Director of Legislative Services are hereby authorized to employ co-op students, as the need may arise, and such co-op students shall work under the direct control and supervision of the Mayor or President of Council and the Director of Legislative Services, unless such supervision is delegated by the Mayor or President of Council and the Director of Legislative Services to another supervisor.
(Ord. 1972-31. Passed 2-2-72.)
266.05 MILEAGE   MILEAGE ALLOWANCE.
   (a)   Council hereby authorizes and directs that the mileage reimbursement allowance for Municipal employees be established at the current rate per mile as allowed by Federal law.
   (b)   The Finance Director is hereby authorized and directed to provide mileage reimbursement at the current rate per mile as allowed by Federal law.
(Ord. 91-218. Passed 9-3-91; Ord. 95-54. Passed 3-21-95; Ord. 95-210. Passed 11-21-95.)
266.06 MILITARY LEAVE.
   (a)   Any full-time employee who temporarily must leave for military service, either for field training or active duty, shall be paid the difference between his or her regular wages and the amount of the military pay he or she receives while serving as a member of the Ohio National Guard, the Ohio Defense Corp, the Ohio Naval Militia or any other reserve component of the armed services of the United States.
   (b)   The period of time for which the Director of Finance is authorized to make such payments shall not exceed thirty-one days in any calendar year for any one employee.
   (c)   Any full-time employee authorized an extended leave of absence does not earn credit toward sick leave, vacation, longevity, hospitalization or uniforms.
   (d)   The City shall maintain the wages, benefits and other terms and conditions of employment for all full-time municipal employees of the City if said employee is called into active military service, effective on or after March 18, 2003 and ending up to one year after such full-time employee has reported to active duty, inclusive of time allowed under this section. Said military pay may be extended on timely written application to the Mayor for good cause shown.
   (e)   Upon proper verification, the Director of Finance is hereby authorized and directed to continue paying the base wages of any such employee during his, her or their active military service less any amount of wages said employee(s) receive from the government for military duty during such active service and to continue hospitalization for dependents, if needed.
(Ord. 1981-69. Passed 5-20-81; Ord. 03-36. Passed 3-18-03; Ord. 05-133. Passed 9-6-05.)
266.07 (RESERVED)
266.08 EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY.
   (a)   Council hereby formally declares that the City will hire and promote its employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age or handicap (except where age or handicap would be an obvious and bona fide obstacle to expected and required job performance), and furthermore will continue to recruit, hire and develop the best qualified persons available for the jobs involved, basing its judgment on job related qualifications.
   (b)   Artificial barriers of personal attitudes and customs cannot be permitted to have an effect in matters of employment practices.
   (c)   The City pledges itself to ensure that all activities relative to recruitment, hiring and promoting are undertaken to effect the principle of equal opportunity and that only valid requirements are imposed when promotional opportunities exist. Further, all matters related to compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, recall from layoffs and training will be free from any and all discriminatory practices. In addition, all facilities of the City will be available to all employees on a nondiscriminatory basis. 
(Res. 1977-10. Passed 1-19-77.)
   (d)   The Director of Finance, by direction of the Mayor, will have overall responsibility for the implementation of the City's affirmative action plan. With the cooperation of appropriate personnel, the Director will conduct periodic reviews to determine whether or not affirmative action goals are being achieved. Reports of these reviews will be the basis for appropriate action to correct deficiencies.
(Adopting Ordinance)
   (e)   When outside sources of recruitment are utilized, they shall be informed that the City is an equal opportunity employer, that legal advertisements for bids include the wording "an equal opportunity employer" and that equal opportunity clauses be included in all major single purchase orders, leases and contracts for two thousand, five hundred dollars ($2,500) or more.
   (f)   The Director of Legislative Services is hereby directed to post, or have posted, a copy of this section on all departmental bulletin boards, and to provide a copy of this section to all employees of the City.
(Res. 1977-10. Passed 1-19-77.)
266.09 CLAIMS AGAINST OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES; INDEMNIFICATION.
   (a)   If there is no liability insurance or other insurance in place that provides coverage against claims made against any elected official, appointed official or employee of the City, the City shall hold harmless and indemnify such elected official, appointed official or employee from any lawsuit or claim filed against him or her as a result of his or her conduct while acting in official capacity as an official or employee of the City, provided the official or employee has not acted in a malicious manner, has not acted in a manner beyond the scope of his or her employment and/or has not acted in a manner known or that should have been known to him or her to be improper, illegal or violative of his or her duties and/or responsibilities to the City.
   (b)   Nothing in this section shall obligate the City to consult with or obtain the permission of any official or employee prior to settling or otherwise resolving any claim made against any official or employee of the City.
   (c)   If any claim is made for which the City has responsibility pursuant to subsection (a) hereof, the City shall also pay and be responsible for the attorney's fees and expenses of suit. However, the City shall have the sole and exclusive right to choose the attorney or attorneys who will represent the City and the official or employee involved.
(Ord. 1986-126. Passed 7-16-86.)
266.10 PERS AND POLICE AND FIREMEN'S DISABILITY AND PENSION FUND CONTRIBUTIONS.
   (a)   For the categories of City employees listed in subsection (d) hereof, the contribution required to be made by each employee to the Ohio Public Employees Retirement Systems (PERS) or the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund, as applicable, as an employee contribution under Ohio R.C. 145.47 and 742.31, shall be paid by the City on behalf of the employee in lieu of contributions by the employee in accordance with this section.
   (b)   No employee's total compensation shall be increased. Each employee's compensation shall consist of two parts. A cash salary shall be the total compensation payable by the City to each employee in any pay period reduced by the amount payable by the City to PERS or the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund on behalf of such employee under subsection (a) hereof. Each employee's deferred amount shall be the pick-up amount payable by the City under subsection (a) hereof in lieu of contributions by the employee.
    (c)   This section shall apply to all employees in the categories listed in subsection (d) hereof. No such employee shall have the option to receive direct payment of the amounts contributed by the City to PERS or the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund on his or her behalf instead of having them contributed to PERS or the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund.
   (d)   This section shall apply to all City employees in the following categories:
      (1)   Regular full-time salaried classification;
      (2)   Regular full-time police officers;
      (3)   Regular full-time fire salaried compensations;
      (4)   Regular full-time hourly rated classifications; and
      (5)   Regular full-time Police Dispatcher.
   (e)   The Mayor or his or her designate is hereby directed to take all acts necessary and appropriate to initiate the implementation of this section, including, but not limited to, making applications to the Internal Revenue Service for private letter rulings concerning Federal tax treatment of the PERS and Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund pick-up plans and making application to the PERS Board or the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund Board.
   (f)   Subject to any requirement imposed by the Internal Revenue Service, the PERS Board and the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund Board, this section shall apply to all payroll payments payable by the City to employees effective with the payroll payable immediately following the date this section takes effect (Ordinance 1988-68, passed March 7, 1988), provided that such payments shall be effective only so long as they are approved by the Public Employees Retirement Board or its agents or the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund Board or its agents.
(Ord. 1988-68. Passed 3-7-88.)
266.11 DEFERRED COMPENSATION.
   (a)   The City hereby adopts a plan under the Ohio Public Employees Deferred Compensation Program, and shall properly contract with any eligible employee who desires to participate in the plan.
   (b)   The City's plan shall be the uniform plan as promulgated by and as amended from time to time by the Ohio Public Employees Deferred Compensation Board.
   (c)   The Board and its Administrator are hereby authorized to administer the plan under the Program and to do all things necessary or proper for the administration of the plan, consistent with the enabling statute and all the rules and regulations promulgated by the Board, whether in the Ohio Administrative Code or otherwise, and consistent with the Program Adoption Agreement executed by the City.
   (d)   The Mayor is hereby authorized and directed to execute the Program Adoption Agreement.
   (e)   Consistent with the Agreement and the rules and regulations promulgated by the Board, the proper officials, officers, employees and agents of the City are hereby authorized to provide the Board and its Administrator with any information they may properly require for the administration of the plan under the Program.
(Res. 1988-150. Passed 7-18-88.)