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CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED <br />ORDINANCE NO. 99-18 <br />, <br />BY: COUNCILMAN MICHAEL R. GAREAU, JR. <br />AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 16111 <br />(ACCUMULATED VACATIDN LEAVE) OF THE <br />ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF THE CITY OF NORTH <br />OLMSTED, AND REPEALING SECTION 2 OF ORDINANCE <br />NO. 90-161, SO AS TO REQUIRE THAT NON-BARGAINING <br />UNIT EMPLOYEES ENTTlLED TO VACATION LEAVE TAKE <br />A MINIMUM OF FIVE WORKDAYS OFF EACH YEAR OR <br />FORFEIT DAYS OF EARNED VACATION LEAVE, AND <br />DECLARING AN EMERGENCY, AS AMENDED. <br />WHEREAS, North Olmsted Ordinance No. 90-161 established vacation leave policy for <br />non-bargaining unit administrative and legislative employees; and <br />WHEREAS, Section 2 of said Ordinance No. 90-161 provided, inter alia, that employees <br />earning vacation leave pursuant to the Ordinance were required to take a minimum of "five <br />uninterrupted days off each year; " and <br />WHEREAS, the State Auditor has recently interpreted said provision in Section 2 of <br />Ordinance No. 90-161 to require that City employees, who do not take at least five (5) days of <br />uninterrupted vacation leave each year, must forfeit those five days of ea.rned vacation leave; and <br />WHEREAS, the State Auditor has further determined that findings for recovery should be <br />made against an employee of the City who was paid for vacation leave which he earned but did <br />not take during certain years of his employment with the City; and <br />WHEREAS, this Council believes that the findings of the Auditor are inequita.ble and <br />accordingly desires to repeal Section 2 of Ordinance No. 90-161, and further to amend Section <br />116.11 of the Administrative Code, in order to clarify the City's vacation policy for non- <br />bargaining unit administrative and legislative employees and to expressly require that such <br />employees must take a minimum of five workdays off each year, or forfeit days of earned vacation <br />leave; <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH <br />OLMSTED, CUYAHOGA COUNTY, AND STATE OF OHIO: <br />SECTION 1: That Section 161.11 of the Administrative Code of the City of North <br />Olmsted, which presently reads as follows: <br />"161.11 ACCUMULATED VACATION LEAVE. <br />Employees sha11 be permitted to request that vacation leave credit, earned in the prior year, <br />be accumulated. In no event shall the employee be permitted to accumulate vacation lea.ve credit <br />