12-2020 - Extend Ord. 08-2020, Flex Pay

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Placed on 1st reading & referred to COW 2 Bullock, Ker:)plej- .11,_Ltten, Neff 0 1 M al I e y , r-., a. cl r� S h -a c h n e r ORDINANCE NO. 12-2020 AN ORDINANCE to take effect immediately provided it received the vote of at least two-thirds of the members of Council, or otherwise to take effect at the, earliest period allowed by law, extending the authority of the Mayor granted by Ordinance 8-2020, adopted March 16, 2020 to continue to pay benefits and provide paid leave during the COVID-19 crisis. WHEREAS, in a special meeting on March 16, 2020 this Council approved legislation authorizing the Mayor to continue to pay benefits and to provide paid leave where employees were not able to work from home and were under a stay at home order of the Governor of the State of Ohio due to COVID-19; and WHEREAS, since that time the Governor has allowed a systematic reopening of the State of Ohio and the number of COVID-19 positive tests is increasing; and WHEREAS, Ohio is still operating under emergency orders issued by the Governor of the State of Ohio and could experience additional restrictions on travel and commerce; and WHEREAS, extending the authority of the Mayor and the Mayor's administration to be flexible with respect to certain of these employment -related provisions in the midst of the state of emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic is necessary and proper; and WHEREAS!, this Council determines that this ordinance is an emergency measure and that it shall take effect immediately and that it is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public property, health, and safety and to provide for the usual daily operation of municipal departments in that it coincides with federal, state and county states of emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic; now, therefore 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 he 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