08-2020 - Authorize Mayor to be flexible with pay and benefits during COVID

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Section 1. In order to provide maximum flexibility to the Mayor's administration amid the state of emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic, notwithstanding any other provision of law, policy or collective bargaining agreement, the Mayor is hereby authorized to the maximum extent permitted by law to: (a) on a case-by-case basis,taking into account all available considerations, authorize full or partial payment to any employee of the City notwithstanding the fact that the employee may be placed temporarily on leave or be restricted from working or unable to work, in such full or partial amounts as the employee would have been paid or in such average full or partial amounts reflecting what the employee had made within a reasonable period of time prior to being restricted from working; (b) on a case-by-case basis,taking into account all available considerations, authorize the continued provision of fringe benefits to any employee of the City notwithstanding the fact that the employee may be placed temporarily on leave or be restricted from working or unable to work; (c) on a case-by-case basis, taking into account all available considerations, authorize the use of paid leaves, including but not limited to sick leaves, by any employee of the City notwithstanding the fact that the employee may not be qualified to use such leaves while the employee may be placed temporarily on leave or be restricted from working or unable to work; all in order to adhere to a requirement or recommendation to remain away from city employment because of coronavirus; to permit the employee to care for an at-risk family member who is adhering to a requirement or recommendation; to permit the employee to quarantine due to exposure to or symptoms of coronavirus; and to permit the employee to care for a child of an employee if the child's school or place of care has been closed, or the child-care provider is unavailable, due to a coronavirus related restriction. Section 2. Unless this ordinance is extended by Council, this ordinance shall no longer be in force and effect at the earlier of(a) August 1, 2020 or (b) 14 days after the date upon which both the Ohio Governor has rescinded the state of emergency he has declared with respect to COVID-19 and the Director of the Ohio Department of Health has rescinded her order limiting gatherings in an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Section 3. It is found and determined that all formal actions of this Council concerning and relating to the passage of this resolution were adopted in an open meeting of this council, and that all such deliberations of this Council and any of its committees that resulted in such formal action, were in meetings open to the public, in compliance with all legal requirements. Section 4. This ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace,property,health, safety and welfare in the City and for the usual daily operation of the City for the reasons set forth and defined in the preamble to this resolution, and provided it receives the affitmative vote of at least two-thirds of the members of Council this ordinance shall take effect and be in force immediately upon its adoption by the