HomeMy WebLinkAboutFixing the Annuak Pay of Firefighters 1980ORDINANCE No 6612 -79
Passed by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana
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July 23 rq 79
Clerk
IRENE K. GAMMON
Of Common Council
Presented by me to the Mayor of the City of South Bend, Ind'ana
July 24 1979
IRENE K. GAMMON
Approved and signed by me . _ o . � 9 -LL-
Clerk
ORDINANCE NO. 4 4 k a -79_
AN ORDINANCE FIXING THE ANNUAL PAY OF
FIREFIGHTERS FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR 1980
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION I. The annual pay of the officers and memebers of the
Fire Department by rank, classification and service years shall be
as follows:
Effective Effective
January 1, 1980 July 1, 1980
Chief . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
$22,300.00
$24,800.00
Assistant Chief . . . . . . . .
20,400.00
22,400.00
Battalion Chief . . . . . . . . .
17,650.00
19,150.00
Specialist . . . . . . . . . . .
15,350.00
16,150.00
Captain . . . . . . . . . . . . .
14,850.00
15,650.00
Senior Engineer
(over ten service years) . . .
14,400.00
15,200.00
Engineers . . . . Service Years
10 . . . . . . . . . . . .
14,400.00
15,200.00
9 -10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
14,150.00
14,950.00
8 -9 . ... . . . . . . . . . . . .
13,900.00
14,700.00
7 -8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
13,650.00
14, 450.00
6 -7 . . . . . . . . . . . . .
13,400.00
14,200.00
5 -6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
13,150.00
13,950.00
3 -5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
12,900.00
13,700.00
Firefighter First Class . . . . .
11,600.00
12,400.00
Firefighter . . . . . . . . . . .
11,400.00
12,200.00
Firefighter -in- Training . . . . .
11,150.00
11,950.00
The first service year for a firefighter commences upon his
being sworn in as a firefighter. The firefighter shall obtain his
second service year on the next succeeding first day of January
until he attains the maximum salary for the particular rank he may
hold.
SECTION II. In addition to the foregoing annual pay, the
officers and members of the fire force shall receive compensation
for extra,duty and special performance as follows:
(a) For recall or overtime pay, time and one -half.
(b) For regularly assigned drivers of fire trucks and other
heavy equipment, the tillerman,and personnel assigned to drive
ambulances on regular or rotation basis, $250.00 per year.
(c) For regularly assigned scuba divers, $225.00 per year.
(d) Firemen performing paramedic duties will be paid at a
level which is a maximum of $800.00 dollars over the base pay for
their rank.
(e) For all personnel required to work on holidays, the pay-
ment shall be as follows those persons working from midnight to
7:00 a.m., payment shall be $16.00; those persons working 7:00 a.m.,
to midnight, shall receive $32.00.
(f) The holiday pay shall apply to holidays listed below and
no others:
New Year's Day Fourth of July
Lincoln's Birthday Labor Day
Washington's Birthday Columbus Day
Good Friday Veteran's Day
Easter Sunday Thanksgiving Day
Memorial Day Christmas
SECTION III.
The Common Council recommends as follows:
(a) The firefighters clothing allowance shall be $400.00
per year. One -half of the clothing allowance shall be paid to
each firefighter by June 30, 1980, and the remaining one -half
shall be paid by December 31, 1980.
(b) That the Board of Public Safety, the Common Council,
and members from the South Bend Firefighters Association Local
362 of the International Association of Firefighters, work to-
gether to develop a Nomex safety clothing program within the
Fire Department.
SECTION IV. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect
for the calendar year commencing January 1, 1980, and ending
December 31, 1980.
Passed, as amended, July 23, 1979
Tantmtttrr Irport
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Your Committee OF THE WHOLE
to whom was referred
A BILL FIXING THE ANNUAL PAY OF FIREFIGHTERS FOR THE
CALENDAR YEAR 1980.
Respectfully report that they have examined the matter and that in their opinion THIS BILL SHOULD BE RECOMMENDED
TO THE COUNCIL FAVORABLE. AS AMENDED:
Ordinance amended from the title down.
FRANK HORVATH
Chairman
FRE[ PRESS PUBLISHING CO.