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All employees of the City of Sacramento shall be entitled to vacation allowances on the following basis:
(a) During the first calendar year of employment, and after the completion of at least six (6) months of service, employees shall be entitled to a vacation allowance on a pro-rata basis of ten (10) working days per year for the number of months worked prior to the beginning of the first calendar year.
(b) Upon the completion of one calendar year and continuing thereafter through the fifth calendar year of employment, all employees shall be entitled to a vacation allowance of ten (10) working days per year.
(c) Upon the completion of five calendar years and continuing thereafter through the fifteenth calendar year of employment, all employees shall be entitled to a vacation allowance of fifteen (15) working days per year.
(d) Upon the completion of fifteen calendar years of employment and continuing thereafter, all employees shall be entitled to a vacational allowance of twenty (20) working days per year; provided further, that such employees so qualified to receive twenty (20) working days of yearly vacation allowance shall have the option, to be exercised not later than the first day of December in each year, to receive pro-rata payment for five (5) days of such vacation in lieu of using such five (5) days for vacation purposes.
For the purpose of this section, the first calendar year shall be considered to be the period between January 1 and December 31 next following the employee's original date of appointment. For the purpose of computing vacation time, each employee shall be considered to work not more than five (5) days each week. Vacation time shall not be earned when an employee is absent from duty without pay, except that there shall be no reduction in the yearly vacation allowance if such time absent from duty without pay does not exceed ten (10) days per year.
Upon termination of employment for any reason, after completion of at least six (6) months of service, an employee entitled to receive vacation allowance shall be paid in a lump sum for all unused accumulated vacation time. All vacation shall be taken at such time as the executive head of the department in which such officer or employee may be serving shall direct.
Any city employee in the Reserve Corps, Naval Reserve, Marine Corps, or National Guard of the United States Army and Navy, when called for the annual period of intensive training, shall be permitted to participate therein and shall not suffer loss of pay through such absence nor shall such period devoted to said training be construed as the annual vacation of such employee but said employee shall have in addition thereto, the usual vacation period or pay allotted to city employees.
The civil service board shall by rule define and interpret the terms of this section and such definition and interpretation shall be conclusive; shall by rule provide for the regulation and accumulation of vacations; shall by rule define those categories of temporary employment in which employees shall not be entitled to earn vacation allowance; and shall by rule provide for the method of computation of accumulated or unused vacation allowance for employees leaving city service.
All regular full-time employees of the City of Sacramento, meeting such requirements as may be established by the city council to carry out the provisions of this section, shall be entitled to receive longevity pay on the following basis:
(a) Upon completion of twenty (20) years of service, an employee shall receive yearly thereafter a lump sum of $100 in addition to said employee's regular compensation; said amount to be paid during the month of July of each year next succeeding the completion of said twenty (20) years of service; and
(b) Upon completion of twenty-five (25) years of service, an employee shall receive yearly thereafter a lump sum of $200 in addition to said employee's regular compensation and in addition to the longevity allowance described in paragraph (a) preceding, said amount to be paid during the month of July of each year next succeeding the completion of said twenty-five (25) years of service.
No deductions for retirement system contributions shall be made from any amount paid to an employee for longevity, and such longevity pay shall be excluded from an employee's earnings when computing retirement allowances.
The city council shall, by ordinance, adopt rules and regulations for employee eligibility and administration of the provisions of this section.
Each department, office and agency of the city shall provide in the form and at the time directed by the city manager all information required by the city manager to develop a budget conforming to modern budget practices and procedures as well as specific information which may be prescribed by the council. Not later than 60 days prior to the commencement of each fiscal year or such greater period as the council may prescribe, the city manager shall prepare and present to the city council, in such form and manner as it may prescribe, budget recommendations for the next succeeding fiscal year. Following public budget hearing, the city council shall adopt by resolution a budget of proposed expenditures and appropriations necessary therefore for the ensuing year, failing which the appropriations for current operations of the last fiscal year shall be deemed effective until the new budget and appropriation measures are adopted. The budget may be amended during the fiscal year in accordance with the procedure established by the council.
Not later than the date set by state law for this purpose, the city council shall by resolution fix the rate of property tax to be levied and levy the tax upon all taxable property in the city. Such rate shall be adequate to meet all obligations of the city for the fiscal year, taking into account estimated revenue from all other sources. Should the city council fail to fix the rate and levy taxes within the time prescribed the rate for the last preceding fiscal year shall thereupon be automatically effective, and a tax at such rate shall be levied upon all taxable property in the city for the current fiscal year.
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