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All full-time personnel listed within this Ordinance having completed five (5) years of full-time continuous service as an employee of the City after January 1, 2009, shall be paid an additional five hundred dollars ($500.00) as annual longevity increments thereafter until completion of their tenth (10th) year of full-time service; after completion of their tenth (10th) year of full-time continuous service, such personnel shall receive one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) as annual longevity increments thereafter until completion of their fifteenth (15th) year of full-time continuous service; after completion of their fifteenth (15th) year of full-time continous service, such personnel shall receive one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500.00) as annual longevity increments thereafter until completion of their twentieth (20th) year of full-time continuous service; after completion of their twentieth (20th) year of full-time continous service, such personnel shall receive two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) as annual longevity increments thereafter for so long as they continue to be full-time employees of the City. (c) Full-time personnel listed within this Ordinance hired after April 30, 2008 shall not be entitled to receive longevity pay under either paragraph (a) or (b) above. Full-time elected officials shall not be entitled to receive longevity pay under either paragraph (a) or (b) above for terms of office that begin on the 1st day of January 2010, or thereafter. Section 14: Holidays and Personal Davs That all full-time personnel listed within this Ordinance shall receive the following holidays off, unless required to work by their supervisor or the Mayor in emergencies, and shall receive their regular rate of pay: New Year's Day; Presidents' Day; one-half (1/2) day on Good Friday; Memorial Day; Independence Day; Labor Day; Thanksgiving Day; the day after Thanksgiving Day; one-half (1/2) day on Christmas Eve Day; Christmas Day; and one-half (1/2) day on New Year's Eve Day. Employees hired between January 1st and June 30th of any given year shall receive three (3) personal days upon their date of hire. Notwithstanding any other provision of this ordinance, all employees shall have the following fixed holidays unpaid: Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Additionally, all employees shall take seven-F7~ four and one-half (4.5) undesignated furlough days. Furlough days shall be evenly scheduled throughout the year with Employer approval. The Employer shall schedule such furlough days if they are not taken off in the appropriate manner. Unscheduled furlough days shall be prorated based on length of time worked in the calendar year. The provisions of this paragraph shall be in effect for the period of January 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011, whereupon January 1, 2012 they shall expire and be null, void and of no effect. No full time employee whose position is listed in this Ordinance and who separated from employment with the City for any reason prior to the effective date of this Ordinance shall be permitted to request a reevaluation of accumulated benefits paid out at or near separation based upon the reduction of furlough days from 7 days to 4.5 days. The Director of Finance is prohibited from recalculating and paying out additional benefits to full time employees listed in this Ordinance who are no longer employed by the City based upon the reduction of furlough days. All full-time personnel listed within this Ordinance hired between July 1st and December 31st of any given year shall receive one and one-half (1'/z) personal days upon their date of hire. Personal days must be used before the end of the year in which they were earned and are not eligible for sell back. Following the first year of employment, these employees will earn their personal days on January 1st of each subsequent year. Section 15: Vacation That all full-time personnel listed within this Ordinance shall be entitled to an annual vacation in accordance with Section 161.11 of the Administrative Code. All previous service as an elected city public official within the city shall be considered full-time for the purpose of calculating vacation and sick leave upon retirement. Vacation sell back for cash is prohibited effective April 17, 2010 through December 31, 2011, whereupon as of January 1, 2012 it shall expire and be null, void and of no effect. Section 16: Attendance Bonus Davs That all full-time personnel who do not use sick leave time for any calendar quarter (i.e., Jan-Mar, Apr-Jun, Jul-Sep, or Oct-Dec), shall receive eight (8) hours of paid time off. In addition, full- time personnel who do not use sick leave time for any calendar half (i.e., Jan-Jun, or Jul-Dec), shall receive an additional eight (8) hours of paid time off for each such calendar half. (This provision shall be construed so that employees may receive no more than a maximum of forty-eight (48) hours each calendar year.) Such attendance bonus days may be taken at a time mutually agreeable to the City and the employee and they must be taken within one year of the date they are earned. Up to one absence per year for attending a funeral may be used without affecting eligibility for bonus days. Page 5 of 6