32-78 mend 137.07 Admin - Uniforms - fire

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ORDINANCE NO. 32-78 BY: Messrs. Usher, Brockman, Brown, Chinnock, Magnotto, McBride, Salmon AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE to amend Section 137.O7 of the Administrative Code of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood relating to payment on account of uniforms for members of the Division of Fire. WHEREAS, this ordinance constitutes an emergency measure providing for the immediate":preservation of the public safety and welfare and 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.O7 of the Administrative Code of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood now reading as follows: Section 137.07 UNIFORM ALLOWANCE In addition to the furnishing of the personal equipment mentioned in Section 137.O6 (b)', the Director of Finance is authorized and directed to pay from the General Fund, Account No. 0192331 - Clothing, the sum of one hundred dollars ($1OO.OO) semi-annually to every active member of the Division of Fire as a uniform allowance. Such sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00) shall be payable on March 31, 1970 to every member of the Division of Fire on active duty as of such date, and a like sum shall be paid to each active member of the Division of Fire at the end of each succeeding semi-annual period thereafter. To each new active member of the Division of Fire, the Director of Finance is authorized and directed to pay upon the written request of such new member, a sum not to exceed two hundred twenty-five dollars ($225.00) as an advance upon the annual uniform allowance of such member. Any funds so advanced shall be deducted from the next regularly occurring uniform allowance which such member is entitled to receive, until the entire amount of the advance has been paid. Should'any member leave the Division before the amount of uniform allowance so advanced is due him, then he shall immediately return such unearned allowance to the Department of Finance. A new member of the Division who commences his employment on a date which falls between determination dates as set forth herein shall receive a portion of uniform allowance pro rated daily from date of employment. A member of the Division terminating his employment on a date which falls between determination dates as set forth herein shall receive that portion of uniform allowance to which he is entitled prorated daily to the date of his termination. be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 137.O7 UNIFORM ALLOWANCE In addition to the furnishing of'the personal equipment mentioned in Section 137.O6 (b), effective February 1, 1978, the Director of Finance is authorized and directed to pay from the General Fund, Account No. 0192331 - Uniform, the sum of One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150-OO) semi- annually and effective JanUary 1, 1979, the Director of Finance is auth- orized and directed to pay from said fund the sum'of One Hundred Seventy- Five Dollars ($175.OO) semi-annually, to every active member of the Division of Fire as a uniform allowance; Such sums as set forth herein, shall be payable semi-annually on March 31 and September 30 of each yar. To each new active member of the Division of Fire, a lump sum uniform allowance of Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) (Three~ Hundred Fifty Dollars ($350.00) after January 1, 1979) upon successfully completing his departmental probationary period and his basic schooling, but this lump sum payment shall be considered an advance of his first two (2) uniform allowance payments.