Fixing Annual Pay & Monetary Fringe Benefits Police Dept 1985 & 1986

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(b) Dependent Health Insurance. The annual contribution by the City for dependent health insurance on behalf of sworn members requesting such coverage shall be increased by Two Hundred Sixty Dollars and Thirty -Two cents ($260.32) per member above the amount paid during calendar year 1984. (c) Each sworn member working under the Overtime Foot Patrol Program shall be paid at the rate of Seven Dollars and Fifty cents ($7.50) per hour. SECTION VI. Applicable Terms (a) The first service year for a member of the Police Department commences upon the individual being sworn in before the Board of Safety as a member of that 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 they may hold. (b) Advancement from the rank of Patrolman First Class to Corporal is dependent upon three (3) complete years of service plus a determination of satisfactory performance of duty and promotion by the Board of Safety. SECTION VII. Health Care Insurance Cost Reduction Program There shall be created a Board of Health Care Insurance Oversight, which will operate in an advisory capacity to and under the direction of the City Controller. This Board shall be composed of representatives of the Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge No. 36, and employees of the Department of Administration and Finance of the City of South Bend, together with other employees of the City of South Bend. It shall be the responsibility of the Board to review, under the direction of the City Controller, on a regular basis the activities of the City's Health Care Insurance Program. In addition, in an effort to control health care costs, the City's current health insurance package shall be modified to provide a program containing comprehensive major medical health insurance which would provide for first dollar deductibles of ten percent (10 %) of the cost of such major medical expenses, with maximum annual cost to the employee for such coverage of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00). SECTION VIII. Sick Leave Cost Reduction Program The following Sick Leave Cost Reduction Program shall be effective on an experimental basis for calendar years 1985 and 1986 and shall apply to all sworn members of the department. This program shall be considered an experiment in encouraging the conservation of sick time and the costs thereof. Effective December 1, 1984, through and including December 1, 1986, sworn members shall be compensated for the conservation of sick time as follows: (a) One (1) day's pay for four (4) unused sick days. (b) Two (2) days' pay for nine (9) unused sick days.