Annual Pay Fringe Benefits South Bend Department 1993 & 1994

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• • South Bend Police Salary Ordinance Page 7 (d) Flexible Spending Account.The City shall contribute five hundred dollar ($500.00)to each officer's and sworn member's [employee's] individual flexible spending account, each plan year, for the term of this Agreement. The contribution shall be made annually on the first pay period of the plan year. This benefit shall be given to all Employees who have met the eligibility requirements which require that the Employee be a full-time benefitted employee hired before October 1st of the previous year. This amount shall be prorated for qualifying part-time and nonprobationary Employees. Any monies remaining from the five hundred($500.00) dollar Flexible Spending Account shall be used by the City to reduce and/or maintain the Employee's contribution. (e) Payment for Election to Leave City Insurance Program. The City shall pay Forty Dollars ($40.00) per month to any officer or sworn member who elects to leave the City's insurance program to be covered by another program for which the City makes no contribution. This election shall not be mandatory and the officer or sworn member [employee] may return to the City's program provided that the conditions of the City's insurance plan are met, and contributions in the amounts specified in paragraph (a) of this section are made, but such officer or sworn member [employee] shall forfeit the Forty Dollar($40.00)payment per month. (f) Life Insurance. The City shall provide term life insurance coverage in the amount of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) for each officer or sworn member [employee]. Such insurance shall be effective upon the award of a group life insurance bid by the Board of Public Works or the beginning of the plan year, whichever is later. (g) Benefit Waiting Periods. The City and the Lodge acknowledge that life insurance, comprehensive major medical insurance, and short term disability programs require a sixty (60)day eligibility period; and that the long term disability program requires a minimum of a ninety (90) day eligibility period. SECTION VIII. Drug Testing Policy. The terms of a drug and alcohol testing policy shall be subject to the approval of the Board of Public Safety for all officers, sworn members and recruits of the South Bend Police Department. SECTION IX. Working Agreement. In the event that the wage and benefit package is ratified by the members of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 36, the Common Council recommends that the Chief of Police's order requiring dress ties for uniformed officers of the South Bend Police Department be vacated for calendar years 1993 and 1994. The Common Council further recommends that the Working Agreement not contain a Bill of Rights Article for calendar years 1993 and 1994. SECTION X. Service Year Defined. (a) The first service year for a member of the Police Department commences upon the individual being sworn in before the Board of Public Safety as a member of the department. The second service year shall begin on the next succeeding first day of January and service years shall continue to increase until the member attains the maximum salary for the particular rank he or she may hold. (b)Advancement from the rank of Patrolman First Class to Corporal is dependent upon three (3) complete calendar years of service plus a determination of satisfactory performance of duty and promotion by the Board of Public Safety. SECTION XI. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage by the Common Council and approval by the Mayor. Step en Lu c,e,Pres' ent