30-78 Amend 137.11 Admin - OT for fire

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ORDINANCE NO. 30-78 BY: Messrs. McBride, Salmon, Usher, Brockman, Brown, Chinnock, Magnotto AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE to amend Section 137.11 of the Administrative Code of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood providing for payment of overtime services for members of the Division of Fire, other than the Chief of the Division of Fire, effective February 1, 1978. WHEREAS,'this Council recognizes that inherent in the duties of fire fighting, emergency situations may exist whereby members of the Division of Fire may be called back to duty while off duty or required to remain on duty beyond their regular scheduled working hours, and WHEREAS, this Council determines it to be appropriate that members of the Division of Fire, other than the Chief of the Division of Fire, should receive extra compensation for such required additional duty, and WHEREAS, this ordinance constitutes an emergency measure providing for the usual daily operation of a municipal department; now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO: Section 1. That Section 137.11 of the Administrative Code of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood now reading as follows: 137.11 OVERTIME COMPENSATION (a) In the event it is necessary to call back to duty a member of the Division of Fire while he is off duty or it is necessary for a member of the Division of Fire to remain on duty beyond hi.s regular working hours, or a member of the Division of Fire devotes off duty time attending school or Fire Training Courses at the City's request or direction, such member of the Division of Fire, other than the Chief of the Division of Fire, shall for each instance of such overtime service of one (1) hour or more, based upon a fifty-six (56) hour work week, be entitled to compensation for such overtime service in the form of compensatory time off computed at one and one- half times the overtime actually incurred. (b) All compensation in the form of compensatory time off shall be subject to the approval of the Director of Public Safety. be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: 137.11 OVERTIME COMPENSATION (a) All employees retained on duty or called back to duty, for whatever reason, shall be paid in accordance with the overtime formula provided herein. Any employee called back to duty for any reason shall receive credit for a minimum of three (3) hours worked, or actual time worked, whichever is greater. (b) Compensation owed for all overtime work shall be accrued in an overtime account of each employee at the rate of one and one-half (I-1/2) times the actual time worked, subject to the minimum credit for call back referred to above. Accrued time in the overtime account of each employee, not taken by him in the form of compensatory time, shall be paid him at his current hourly earning rate at the time of 'the employee's retirement, termination or resignation, or to his estate in cash of the employee's death. (c) All compensation in the form of compensatory time off shall be subject to the approval of the Director of Public Safety.