8397-93 Annual Pay & Monetary Fringe Benefits of Firefighters 1994, 1995 & 1996

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Firefighter Salary Cover Letter Page 2 5. Holiday Pay for Holidays. Worked Only: Current Holiday pay procedures whereby a firefighter is paid holiday pay whether he works a holiday or not would be eliminated. Holiday pay would only be paid if the designated holiday is worked with the firefighter receiving either 120%of his regular hourly rate times the hours actually worked or 80% of his regular hourly rate times the hours actually worked plus 10 hours of flex time added to his account. 6. Elimination of Accumulated Time: Current accumulated time procedures would be eliminated. An accumulated time account would be established with all time as of 12-31-93 being frozen. A maximum of 48 hours could be rolled into a firefighter's flex time account, with the remaining hours paid out in cash in 1994 at the pay rate equivalent to the rank held on 12-31-93 if so held for as least 12 continuous months. The Flexible Time Account would be established with maximum hours of 72 for 24-hour personnel and 40 for 8-hour personnel. 7. Family Leave Policy Established: Family or Medical Leaves of Absence procedures would be created consistent with the federal law of 12 weeks of such leave being granted per calendar year. Firefighters would be required to use all banked sick days, all current sick days, and all vacation days first, with the remaining period of the 12 weeks being unpaid leave. The City would continue to pay its share of major medical insurance premiums during such a leave and retirement benefits would continue to accrue during such leave. 8. Insurance: Insurance coverage would be modified to reflect the provisions in effect for the rest of the City employees currently, except that single coverage premiums would remain at$10.00 per month and that dependent coverage would be $50.00 per month in 1994 and 1995 and would be $55.00 in 1996. The most significant change and recommendation is the premium rate for pensioners, widows and dependents,with those rates being frozen for 1994-1996 at$78.00 per month for single coverage and$227.00 per month for dependent coverage. 9. Drug and Alcohol Testing Policy: The Fire Department's Drug and Alcohol Testing Policy will be similar to the one currently in place for the Police Department. It will include five (5) basic types of testing, namely: post-accident, on-the-job injury, behavior,pre-employment and random. 10. Other Major Items: (a) Vacations: Limited adjustments are recommended in the second tier of the vacation schedule which would affect those firefighters hired after 12-31-86. (b) Sick Leave Buy-Back: The current Sick Leave Buy-Back Program would remain in effect with limited modification for those firefighters in the second tier who were hired after 12-31-86. (c) Retirement Sick-Day Back Program: The current Retirement Sick-Day Buy Back Program would remain in effect with a full bank being increased by $293.00 per year for a total of$4,026. The rate of reimbursement would be one- half of the hourly rate of base pay for the 1993 Engineer rank instead of the 1991 Engineer rank effective 1-1-94.