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ORDINANCE NO.2004-07-PAGE 18 <br />(d.) Effective and retroactive to January 1, 2003, if a full-time Service Department <br />employee possesses and maintains his or her Commercial Driver's License (CDL) and in <br />addition undergoes twenty-four (24) hours of continuing education, that full-time Service <br />Department employee shall receive a continuing education stipend. The stipend will be fifteen- <br />hundred dollars ($1,500.00) in 2003, fifteen-hundred sixty dollars ($1,560.00) in 2004 and <br />sixteen-hundred fifteen dollars ($1,615.00) in 2005. The courses taken to be eligible for the <br />educational stipend will be approved by the Service Director and the Mayor. A full-time Service <br />Department employee will undergo training during his or her regularly scheduled hours <br />whenever practical and the Village will pay for such training. If a Service Department employee <br />is required to take training while off-duty, he or she will be compensated at his or her <br />appropriate rate for such training including travel time to an from the training and will be <br />reimbursed for his or her mileage to and from such training at the rate set by the Internal <br />Revenue Service pursuant to Section 153.07 (a) above. <br />(e.) Effective and retroactive to January 1, 2003, if the Finance Director possesses <br />certification as a Certified Public Accountant, he or she will receive a stipend equal to the higher <br />of the stipends provided for employees possessing a paramedic's license or the stipends <br />provided to the members of the F.O.P. This stipend will be paid in the same fashion and on the <br />same schedule as the paramedic stipend paid to employees possessing a paramedic's license. <br />In addition, the Finance Director will be reimbursed for his or her annual dues for the American <br />Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Ohio Society of Certified Public <br />Accountants (OSCPA). If the Finance Director attends continuing education seminars or <br />conferences dealing with governmental finance or a conference or seminar required by the Ohio <br />Revised Code, the Village will reimburse the Finance Director for any reasonable expenses <br />associated with that conference and he or she will be entitled to the per diem outlined above. If <br />the seminar or conference is on a subject matter not related to governmental finance or is not <br />required by the Ohio Revised Code, the Finance Director will be responsible for the expenses <br />associated with that seminar or conference. The Mayor will be the final arbiter as to the <br />appropriateness of any seminar or conference for reimbursement. <br />(f.) Effective and retroactive to January 1, 2003, any full-time employee not eligible for <br />the stipend for paramedic's license, the stipends provided to the F.O.P. or full-time Dispatchers <br />or any of the stipends provided above who undergoes thirty-two (32) hours of continuing <br />education shall receive a continuing education stipend. The stipend will be fifteen-hundred <br />dollars ($1,500.00) in 2003, fifteen-hundred sixty dollars ($1,560.00) in 2004 and sixteen- <br />hundred fifteen dollars ($1,615.00) in 2005. The courses taken to be eligible for the educational <br />stipend will be approved by the Department Head and the Mayor. Full-time employees will <br />undergo training during his or her regularly scheduled hours whenever practical and the Village <br />will pay for such training. If a full-time employee is required to take training while off-duty, he <br />or she will be compensated at his or her appropriate rate for such training including travel time <br />to an from the training and will be reimbursed for his or her mileage to and from such training at <br />the rate set by the Internal Revenue Service pursuant to Section 153.07 (a) above. <br />(g.) The stipends provided for above will be paid to employees will be issued once a year. <br />Payments will be made after November 1~` of each year but no later than the first paycheck in <br />November. <br />