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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 (7) 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 and remain in effect for the period of January 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010, whereupon as of January 1, 2011 they shall expire and be null, void and of no effect. 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 %) 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. Effective April 17, 2010 through December 31, 2010 vacation, sell back for cash is prohibited. The prohibition of vacation sell back found in this paragraph shall be and remain in effect for the period of 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. Section 17: Boot Allowance That the following full-time employees shall be reimbursed by the City in an amount not to exceed $200 annually for the purchase or purchases of boots by such employees for use in their employment with the City of North Olmsted: Public Works Foremen; Fleet Manager; Waste Water Treatment Plant Superintendent; Waste Water Treatment Plant Assistant Superintendents (Plant and Collections); Waste Water Collection System Foreman; Laboratory Chemist; and Golf Course Maintenance Supervisor. Said full-time employees shall be entitled to receive such reimbursement in any year by presenting to the Finance Department, no later than by the 15th day of June of that year, receipts which document his or her expenditure or expenditures, during the immediately preceding one year period, for the purchase of such boots. Upon timely submittal of such documentation to the Finance Department no later than by the 15th day of June of any year, the City shall reimburse such employee at the next pay day that falls in the month of July. Section 18: Electronic Deposit All forms of compensation shall be paid by electronic deposit to commence at the City's convenience, but not less than thirty (30) days after adoption of this ordinance. If it is determined that an employee is not bankable, a check will be issued for all forms of compensation for such employee. Page 5 of 6