131.12 SALARY INCREMENTS.

   (a)   In General. An employee who is appointed to a full-time or part-time regular position within the Municipal service may receive a six-month step increase within the employee's pay range upon judgment of the employee's supervisor that the employee is performing the responsibilities in a satisfactory fashion, as judged by a performance appraisal that has been conducted by the employee's immediate supervisor within thirty days of the date of the potential step pay increase, provided that the employee has not achieved the top step in the particular pay grade.

   Annual step increase shall be received each year thereafter on the anniversary of the employee’s six month step increase.

   No step increase adjustment shall occur if the employee has served in the position, whether by promotion or initial appointment, for less than six months.

   A non-probationary full-time or part-time employee may receive a step increase within the employee's pay range upon the judgment of the employee's supervisor that the employee is performing the responsibilities in a satisfactory fashion, as judged by a performance appraisal that has been conducted by the employee's immediate supervisor within thirty days of the date of the potential step pay increase, provided that the employee has not achieved the top step in the particular pay grade.

   An employee shall not receive a step increase on more than one occasion during any six-month period.

   (b)   Exceptional Increases. While salary increases are ordinarily limited to one step, the City Manager may, in special circumstances, grant salary increases of two steps. Salary increases in excess of two steps shall require Council approval.

   (c)   Senior Director Pay Program.

      (1)   Purpose. The purpose of the Senior Director Pay Program is to pay a job for what it is worth, recognize and reward individual job performance and provide incentive for outstanding performance.

      (2)   Eligibility. The Senior Director Pay Program shall apply to those positions identified as Senior Directors in paragraph (e)(6) hereof.

      (3)   Performance review process. The City Manager will annually complete a performance evaluation form for each Senior Director, copies of which will be provided to the Senior Director and placed in the Senior Director's personnel file.

      (4)   Establishment of pay ranges. The City Manager shall recommend to Council pay ranges for those employees eligible for participation in the Senior Director Pay Program. In establishing the pay ranges, the City Manager shall consider how comparable communities and organizations are compensating similar positions for the upcoming year, internal and external market conditions and various economic indicators relating to the cost of living. Council shall review the pay ranges, and said ranges shall be subject to approval by Council through the adoption of an ordinance establishing Pay Table I and II.

      (5)   Placement of Senior Directors within pay ranges. Each year, effective the first pay period of the new fiscal year, the City Manager shall determine the placement of Senior Directors within the established pay ranges, based on their performance over the previous year. The Senior Director's performance shall be based on their annual performance review, as outlined in this section.

      (6)   "Senior Directors" shall mean the following positions: Finance Officer, Fire Chief, Police Chief, Parks and Recreation Director, Community Development Director, and Public Works Director, Human Resource Director and Information Technology Director.

(Ord. A-2065. Passed 12-23-96; Ord. A-2113. Passed 12-22-97; Ord. A-2192. Passed 12-13-99; Ord. A-2324. Passed 11-25-02; Ord. A-2401. Passed 9-27-04; Ord. A-2422. Passed 1-24-05; Ord. A-2464. Passed 12-12-05; Ord. A-2501. Passed 12-11-06; Ord. A-2594. Passed 12-8-08; Ord. A-2727. Passed 7-9-12; Ord. A-2778. Passed 12-9-13; Ord. A-2815. Passed 2-23-15; Ord. A-2841. Passed 12-14-15; Ord. A-2912. Passed 12-11-17; Ord. A-2918. Passed 1-22- 18; Ord. A-2990. Passed 12-9-19; Ord. A-3000. Passed 3-23-20; Ord. A- 3014. Passed 8-24-20; Ord. A-3029. Passed 12-14-20; Ord. A-3111. Passed 11-28-22.)

131.13 OVERTIME COMPENSATION.

   (a)   Overtime Pay. Overtime pay shall be provided to non-exempt employees at a rate of one and one-half times the normal rate for all hours compensated in excess of the basic work week.

   (b)   Exempt Employees. Employees in management/administrative positions are salaried employees. Such employees are exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and, as such, are not entitled to overtime pay. A list of these exempt positions will be held by the Human Resource Manager.

   (c)   Generally, exempt employees work a schedule to meet the needs of their supervisor and shall not be required to take sick leave, personal leave or vacation leave in increments of less than two hours. (All other applicable guidelines under FLSA shall apply to these exempt employees.)

   (d)   Non-Exempt Employees. All other management/administrative employees who have been determined to be non-exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) shall be entitled to overtime pay.

   (e)   Hourly Rate. The hourly rate shall be arrived at by dividing the number of hours worked in the basic work year into the person's annual rate of pay.

   (f)   Fire Department Rate. In the case of the Fire Department, the hourly rate shall be determined by dividing 2,080 hours into the annual rate of pay.

   (g)   Call-Outs. Work performed outside the regular work schedule, unless such work is an extension of the day's work, or without prior notice upon leaving work on the previous day, shall constitute a call-out.

   Call-outs shall be paid at the time and one-half rate, with a minimum guarantee of three hours at the time and one-half rate, except as noted in the following paragraphs.

   Any employee who takes an unauthorized absence for part or all of a regularly scheduled workday and then responds to a call-out the same day, without working over the normal workday, including the time worked for the call-out and any other time worked for the respective day, shall be paid at the regular rate of pay with a minimum guarantee of two hours at that rate. However, if the combined work for the call-out and the other regularly scheduled work during the day exceeds the normal workweek, then the employee shall be paid at the time and one-half rate for any time worked over the normal workweek. If call-out work is performed prior to the start of the regular work shift and continues into the regular shift, the pay rate shall revert to straight time at the start of the regular shift and shall continue at that rate for eight working hours.

   Additional overtime worked during the workweek shall then be compensated for at the time and one-half rate.

   Part-time employees are not eligible for call out overtime.

   (h)   Compensatory Time. Non-exempt employees shall have the option to take compensatory time off in lieu of overtime pay; noting that said compensatory time off will be earned at a rate of one and one-half times the number of hours worked. All compensatory time off will be subject to scheduling approval of the immediate supervisor. No employee can accumulate a balance of more than sixty hours of compensatory time (seventy-two hours for Assistant Fire Chiefs working a fifty-four hour work week). Compensatory time must be taken within twelve months of being accrued. In extenuating circumstances, where an employee is not permitted to take compensatory time due to City operational responsibilities, the City Manager may extend the twelve month time limit.

(Ord. A-2065. Passed 12-23-96; Ord. A-2113. Passed 12-22-97; Ord. A-2164. Passed 4-26-99; Ord. A-2192. Passed 12-13-99; Ord. A-2282. Passed 12-10-01; Ord. A-2324. Passed 11-25-02; Ord. A-2341. Passed 2-24-03; Ord. A-2422. Passed 1-24-05; Ord. A-2434. Passed 5-9-05; Ord. A-2464. Passed 12-12-05; Ord. A-2485. Passed 6-26-06; Ord. A-2501. Passed 12-11-06; Ord. A-2544. Passed 12-10-07; Ord. A-2594. Passed 12-8-08; Ord. A-2614. Passed 6-22-09; Ord. A-2630. Passed 12-14-09; Ord. A-2705. Passed 12-12-11; Ord. A-2727. Passed 7-9-12; Ord. A-2778. Passed 12-9-13; Ord. A-2805. Passed 12-8-14; Ord. A- 2841. Passed 12-14-15; Ord. A-2884. Passed 12- -16; Ord. A-2912. Passed 12-11-17; Ord. A-3000. Passed 3-23-20; Ord. A-3014. Passed 8-24-20; Ord. A-3000. Passed 3-23-20; Ord. A-3014. Passed 8-24-10; Ord. A-3111. Passed 11-28-22.)

131.14 HOURS OF WORK.

   (a)   The City Manager or designee shall establish the basic hourly workweek and work period for the various City employees. All shift personnel shall work their assigned hours within the work period established for the department.

    (b)   For purposes of computing the work week, all paid leaves of absences will be considered as hours worked.

   (c)   All employees shall report to work at the time established for their department.

(Ord. A-1600. Passed 12-22-86; Ord. A-3111. Passed 11-28-22.)

131.15 HOLIDAYS.

   (a)   The following days are full holidays with pay for all full- time permanent employees in the City service:

 

New Year’s Day	Labor Day
Presidents Day	Thanksgiving Day
Good Friday	Day after Thanksgiving
Independence Day	Christmas Eve Day
Memorial Day	Christmas Day
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day	Veterans Day
Juneteenth

 

   (b)   Holiday overtime will be paid on the actual holiday rather than the compensatory day off. Overtime worked on the compensatory day off will be paid at the rate of time and one-half the employee's base wage.

   (c)   Shift employees will be paid their base wage plus one day's wage for all holidays granted in subsection (a) hereof, whether they work the holiday or not. Fire Department personnel shall be paid eight times an hourly rate arrived at by dividing their annual salary by 2,080.

   Any City employee assigned to work a holiday not part of their regularly scheduled work week shall be paid at a rate of two and one-half times the base wage, plus holiday pay.

   (d)   Holiday pay will be paid only to those employees who work their regular scheduled work day both immediately before and after the holiday.

   (e)   If the holiday falls on a Saturday, the scheduled holiday will be on the Friday before. If the holiday falls on a Sunday, the scheduled holiday will be on the Monday after. The City Manager will have the authority to change this schedule based on City needs.

   (f)   Part time public safety telecommunicators who work any of the ten holidays listed in subsection (a) hereof will receive pay at the rate of time and one-half the employee's base wage for the hours that they work on the holiday.

(Ord. A-2065. Passed 12-23-96; Ord. A-2113. Passed 12-22-97; Ord. A-2464. Passed 12-12-05; Ord. A-2501. Passed 12-11-06; Ord. A-2614. Passed 6-22-09; Ord. A-2778. Passed 12-9-13; Ord. A-2841. Passed 12-14-15; Ord. A-2912. Passed 12-11-17; Ord. A-3111. Passed 11-28- 22.)

131.151 PERSONAL LEAVE.

   (a)   Each regular full-time employee shall be entitled to four (4) days of personal leave. Personal leave may be taken at the employee’s option with approval of the department head. Personal leave days are to be earned quarterly with one day being earned on the first day of January, April, July and October. Personal leave days may be used prior to being earned, but if the employee leaves the employ of the City, with the exception of retirement or death, having used personal leave days that were not earned, an appropriate adjustment will be made in the final pay.

   (b)   All employees must use personal leave in minimum one-hour increments.

   (c)   All employees must serve six months of continuous employment as a regular full-time employee with the City before they are eligible for personal leave time.

   (d)   No employee shall have the option of converting personal leave to cash.

   (e)   Personal leave cannot be carried over to the next calendar year.

(Ord. 2065. Passed 12-23-96; Ord. A-2113. Passed 12-22-97; Ord. A-2324. Passed 11-25-02; Ord. A-2630. Passed 12-14-09; Ord. A-2778. Passed 12-9-13.)