(a) The City will provide a purchase plan whereby Deputy Chiefs will be able to purchase safety shoes, safety glasses, including prescriptive lenses, and a bullet proof vest, through a City program. The purchase program for the safety shoes and the safety glasses shall make these items available at sixty percent (60%) of the cost of the item to the City with the remaining forty percent (40%) to be paid by the employee. The purchase program for the bullet proof vest shall make this item available through payroll deduction to the employee at fifty percent (50%) of the cost of the item to the City with the remaining fifty percent (50%) to be paid by the employee. Each Police Deputy Chief will be allowed to purchase one (1) bulletproof vest through this program through the term of this chapter.
(b) When it becomes necessary for a Police Deputy Chief to have his/her issued holster replaced, the Deputy Chief may have the option of receiving the standard Division holster or purchasing another holster from an outside source which the Division approves. The City will compensate the Deputy Chief for the cost of the Division holster and the Deputy Chief will pay the balance.
(c) The following annual stipends shall be provided to all Police Deputy Chiefs and the Director-Police Operations.
(i) $150.00 - Police safety equipment not provided by the division, but conforming to division specifications and regulations in the event the officer purchases same.
(ii) $75.00 - Advanced law enforcement training and educational material.
(iii) $175.00 - Maintenance of physical fitness necessary to effective police work.
Said stipends shall be payable in the gross amount of four hundred dollars ($400.00).
(Ord. 599-23. Passed 11-21-23.)