The City will provide an employee purchase plan whereby employees will be able to purchase safety shoes, safety glasses, including prescriptive lenses through a City program. The purchase program for the safety shoes and the safety glasses shall make these items available to the employee with sixty (60%) percent of the cost of the item to be paid by the City and the remaining forty (40%) percent to paid by the employee.
The following stipends shall be provided to all firefighters in June 2003, January 2004, and in January 2005:
(a) $150.00 - Firefighter safety equipment not provided by the Department but conforming to Department's specifications and regulations in the event the Firefighter purchases same.
(b) $250.00 - Maintenance of the physical fitness necessary to effective fire fighting. The physical fitness stipend shall increase to Three Hundred Fifty Dollars ($350.00) effective with the January 2004 payment.
Said stipends shall be payable in the gross amount of Four Hundred Dollars ($400.00) in 2003 and Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) in 2004 and 2005. The 2003 payment shall be made in the June paycheck issued on or closest to June 30 to those members then on the payroll. For 2004, payment should be issued not later than January 31, 2004, and in 2005 payment shall be issued not later than January 31, 2005, to those members then on the payroll.
(Ord. 463-03. Passed 5-27-03.)