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Home My WebLink AboutORD 1990-054 ORDINANCE NO. 90-54 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAPEVINE, TEXAS AMENDING THE GRAPEVINE CODE OF ORDINANCES CHAPTER 18 RELATING TO PERSONNEL BY AMENDING SECTION 18-145 LONGEVITY; SECTION 18-151 ACTING OUT OF CLASSIFICATION PAY; SECTION 18-161 HOLIDAYS; SECTION 18-162 VACATION; AND SECTION 18-163 �� SICK LEAVE; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE �..� BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GR.APEVINE, TEXAS: Section l . That Chapter 18 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Grapevine, Texas (the "City") relating to Personnel shall be and is hereby amended in the following particulars, and that all other chapters, subchapters, paragraphs, sentences, phrases and words of the said Code are not amended but are hereby ratified, verified, approved and affirmed: A. That Section 18-145 relative to longevity pay is hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows: "All full-time permanent and probationary employees shall be eligible to receive longevity pay at the rate of $4 . 00 per completed month for each year of service. A "completed month" , as used in this section, means any month in which the employee is entitled to compensation for at least sixteen (16) days of such month. Members of the Police and Fire Department who are governed by Section 141 . 032 of the Local Government Code shall receive longevity pay calculated to a maximum of 25 �= years of service or $1 ,200 . 00 per year. All other employees shall receive longevity pay calculated to a maximum of 20 years of service or $960 .00 per year. Longevity will be paid to all eligible employees on the first pay date in December of each year. Employees with less than 12 completed months of service on December 1st shall not be eligible to receive longevity pay for that year. Employees with 12 completed months or more of service shall be eligible to receive payment based on $4 . 00 per completed month. B. That Section 18-151 relative to acting out of classification pay is hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows: "18-151 . Acting out of classification. (a) Members of the fire and police department as defined in Section 141 . 009 of the Local Government Code who are required to perform the duties of a higher classification shall be paid a salary within the salary F„�.;..�.. range prescribed for that position during the time the member performs those duties. The specific salary to be paid within the salary range of the higher classification shall be the salary of the lowest step which has a salary that is greater in amount than the salary the employee regularly receives. For purposes of this section, the term "required to perform" shall mean that the member was directed or ordered by a superior to perform the duties. (b) Al1 other employees in a non-exempt classification, who are temporarily assigned to do the work of a classification having a higher minimum or maximum salary rate, shall be paid for acting out of classification for more than 24 consecutive hours (three (3) consecutive days) . The director of personnel is responsible for determining the exempt/non-exempt status of positions in accordance with state and federal law. Compensation shall be made in accordance with Section 18-142 (b) . " C. That paragraph (h) of Section 18-161 relative to holidays is hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows: �� " (h) Employees who work on a designated holiday shall either receive credit for that day to be used at a later date or be compensated at regular pay. Employees `�� who work twenty-four hour shifts may be compensated up to a maximum of three shifts. An employee who elects to receive credit for a designated holiday must obtain his supervisor ' s approval of the day which is to be used as holiday credit. Al1 holidays will accrue annually from October 1 through September 30 . All holiday credits must be used no later than the pay period following Labor Day and all accrued holiday pay will be paid in the pay period following Labor Day. " D. That the heading of paragraph (A) of Section 18-162 relative to vacation is hereby amended to read as follows: " (A) Full-time permanent employees hired prior to October 1 , 1990 shall accrue paid vacation leave at the following rates: " E. That paragraph (A) of Section 18-162 relative to vacation is hereby amended by the addition of a new subsection (4) to read as follows: " (4 ) Al1 full-time permanent and probationary employees hired on or after October 1 , 1990 shall `" earn paid vacation leave at the rate of 80 hours per year (6 . 67 hours per month) from the lst month through the 48th month; 120 hours per year (10 hours per month) from the 49th month through the 132nd month; 160 hours per year (13 . 33 hours per month) from the 133rd month through the 252nd month; and 200 hours per year (16 . 67 hours per month) from the 253rd month until separation, retirement or death. All regular full-time and probationary 24 hour shift workers hired on or after October 1 , 1990 shall earn vacation leave at the rate of 120 hours per year (10 hours per month) from the lst month through the 48th month; 180 hours per year (15 hours per month) from the 49th month through the 132nd month; 240 hours per year (20 hours per month) from the 133rd month through the 252nd month; and 300 hours per year (25 hours per month) from the 253rd month until separation, retirement or death. " F. That paragraph (D) (3) of Section 18-162 relative to � °° vacation is hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows: " (3) Employees shall be encouraged to use a substantial portion of their vacation leave each year. Payment shall be made for unused vacation leave up to the applicable maximum upon separation, retirement or death of the employee; provided, however, that in the event that an employee who has worked for the city for less than one (1) year leaves employment with the City for whatever reason, the said employee shall not be entitled to payment for any vacation time which the employee has accrued during his employment with the City. The following maximum accrual rates shall apply: (a) All full-time and part-time permanent employees hired prior to October l , 1990 shall have a maximum accrual rate as follows: (1) Department heads may accrue no more than ninety (90) days of vacation leave. �� (2) Other employees may accrue no more than sixty (60) days of vacation leave. (3) Firefighters may accrue no more than thirty (30) shifts of vacation leave. (b) All full-time and part-time permanent employees hired on or after October l , 1990 shall have a maximum accrual rate of one and one-half (1 1/2) times their current rate of vacation leave. " G. That the heading of paragraph (a) of Section 18-163 relative to sick leave is hereby amended to read as follows: " (a) Full-time permanent employees hired prior to October 1 1990 shall accrue paid sick leave at the following rates: " H. That paragraph (a) of Section 18-163 relative to sick leave is hereby amended by the addition of a new subsection (4) to read as follows: " (4) All full-time permanent and probationary employees hired on or after October l , 1990 shall �- accrue sick leave at a rate of 12 days per year (8 hours per month) except those employees who work twenty-four hour shifts who shall accrue sick leave at �"� a rate of six shifts per year (12 hours per month) . " I . That paragraph (d) (4) of Section 18-163 relative to sick leave is hereby amended to read as follows: " (4) Employees hired prior to October 1 , 1990 who have a balance of at least twenty (20) days of sick leave as of December 1 and who have taken no more than five (5) days of sick leave since the previous December 1 may surrender five (5) days of sick leave in exchange for payment. No employee hired on or after October l , 1990 shall be eligible to receive this sick leave buy back benefit. " Section 2 . If any section, article, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase or word in this ordinance, or application thereto any person or circumstance is held invalid or unconstitutional by a Court of competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance; and the City Council hereby declares it would have passed such remaining portions of the ordinance despite such invalidity, which � remaining portions shall remain in full force and effect. Section 3 . The fact that the present ordinances and �, regulations of the City of Grapevine, Texas, are inadequate to properly safeguard the health, safety, morals, peace, and general welfare of the public creates an emergency which requires that this ordinance become effective from and after the date of its passage, and it is accordingly so ordained. PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAPEVINE, TEXAS on this the 4th day of September , 1990 . APPROVED: !� Y William D. Tate Mayor �„�, ATTEST: � Lin a Huff City Secretary APPROVED AS TO FORM: �� Adrienne C. Leonard City Attorney �...,� � �