The City will provide an employee purchase plan whereby employees will be able to purchase safety shoes, safety glasses, including prescriptive lenses. 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 be paid by the employee or the purchase of one pair of safety shoes from vendor of choice per year which complies with uniform specifications will be subject to reimbursement of fifty dollars ($50.00) following submission of paid receipt.
The Safety Committee of the Association and the City shall mutually agree to a specification for a bullet proof vest which will then be competitively bid.
In reference to the above safety equipment, the City will acknowledge the Association's recommendations as to what would be appropriate for their members.
A payroll deduction system will be established under this program through the means of an automatic deduction from the employee's paycheck.
The following stipends shall be provided to all officers in January, 2012 and in January 2013 and in January 2014:
(A) $150.00 - Police safety equipment not provided by the Department, but conforming to Department specifications and regulations in the event the Officer purchases same.
(B) $75.00 - Advanced Law Enforcement Training and educational material.
(C) $175.00 - Maintenance of the physical fitness necessary to effective police work. The physical fitness stipend shall increase to $275.00 effective with the January, 2004, payment.
Said stipends shall be payable in the gross amount of five hundred dollars ($500.00) in 2012, 2013 and 2014. For 2012, payment should be issued not later than January 31, 2012 and in 2013 payment shall be issued no later than January 31, 2013, and in 2014 payment shall be issued no later than January 31, 2014, to those officers then on the payroll.