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Home My WebLink About2099-97 - ADMIN Ordinance - City Council - 1997/09/02ORDINANCE NO.2 0 9. 9 27 - CITY 7 CITY OF ST. LOUIS PARK HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 3, PART 6 OF THE ST. LOUIS PARK MUNICIPAL CODE CONCERNING FLEX LEAVE THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS PARK DOES ORDAIN: SECTION 1. Section 3-610 of the St. Louis Park Municipal Code is amended by changing the heading to read: Section 3-610. Flex Leave for Supervisory Employees. SECTION 2. Chapter 3, Part 6 of the St. Louis Park Municipal Code is amended by adding Section 3-611 to read: Section 3-611. Flex Leave for Non -supervisory Employees. (1) Eligibility. (a) Non -supervisory employees not covered by a collective bargaining agreement shall be eligible to participate in the Flex Leave Plan set forth in this Section, effective October 10, 1997, in lieu of taking sick leave, vacation leave, or floating holiday leave under the current City Plan. Eligible employees must choose to take leave under the Flex Leave Plan no later than October 9, 1997, or they will remain in the current City Leave Plan. (b) Eligible employees hired on or after October 10, 1997, shall be in the Flex Leave program and will start their employment with a Flex Leave accumulation of three (3) days and will earn Flex Leave according to the chart provided in subsection (3). (c) Eligible part-time employees shall be entitled to Flex Leave consistent with this Section on a pro -rata basis. 54248.02 (2) Transition. (a) Eligible employees with the City prior to October 10, 1997, may convert up to 100% of their vacation balances to Flex Leave on the effective date. Eligible employees must convert 20 days or their current sick leave balance if less than 20 days, to the Flex Leave account. Sick leave not converted may be used for the employee's personal injury or illness. (b) Sick leave not converted to Flex leave may be used for the employee's personal injury or illness in accordance with subparagraph 7 of this Section or after the employee is absent from work for more than twenty (20) continuous days due to any other reason for which the use of sick leave was previously authorized. (c) Upon termination of employment with the City, an employee may receive pay in exchange for 50% of the employee's sick leave balance for up to 120 days of sick leave. The rate of pay for sick leave shall be based on an employee's wage rate at the time of the exchange. (3) Flex Leave Plan. Vacation, sick, and floating holiday leaves are replaced by Flex Leave. Eligible employees shall accumulate flex leave on a bi-weekly basis based on the employee's years of service to the City, in accordance with the following chart: Years of Service Bi -Weekly Accrual Bi -Weekly Accrual Rate Hours Rate Days 0 - 4 7.0769 .8846 5 - 10 8.6152 1.0769 11 8.9224 1.1153 12 9.2304 1.1538 13 9.5360 1.1920 14 9.8456 1.2307 15 10.1536 1.2692 Flex Leave is accrued on a per day pay period basis and may be used subsequent to the pay period in which it was earned. The accrual rate of employees working a non- standard work schedule shall be determined by the City Manager on a pro -rata basis. Employees who leave City employment and who return shall be given credit for their prior years of service with the City in determining their accrual rate. (4) Annual Carry -Over of Leave. On the first day in September of each year, eligible employees may carry over the balance of their accrued Flex Leave up to two times their annual Flex Leave accrual plus 20 days. All Flex Leave accrued over this amount shall be forfeited except for Flex Leave eligible for Flex Leave pay under Subsection (5)(a). 54248.02 2 (5) Flex Leave Pay. (a) Annually. Prior to the first payroll of September of each year, eligible employees may receive pay in exchange for a portion of their Flex Leave accrued based on their rate of pay in effect on the first day in October of that year. Eligible employees are those employees who have, at a minimum, an accumulated Flex Leave balance of two times their annual Flex Leave accrual plus 20 days. Eligible employees may receive pay for not more than 5 days of accumulated Flex Leave over the accumulation cap. (b) Termination. Upon termination of employment with the City, an employee will receive pay for 100% of the employee's Flex Leave balance on the date of termination based on the rate of pay in effect for the employee on the date of termination. (6) Use of Flex Leave. (a) Reason. An employee may use Flex Leave for any absence from work, e.g. vacation, sick, other. Flex Leave may be taken by increments of one hour or more. (b) Request for Leave. Requests to use Flex Leave should be made to each employee's department head in accordance with the advance notice policy of the department. Planned Flex Leave for 15 continuous days or more requires City Manager approval. (c) Unplanned Absences. An employee who must take Flex Leave for an unplanned absence, such as an illness, must contact his/her supervisor as soon as possible, and preferably prior to the employee's start time. Unplanned absences will be approved by the employee's supervisor one day at a time. Once an employee has no Flex Leave remaining in his/her account, all leave will be unpaid. (7) Prolonged Absence. If an employee in the Flex Leave program is absent from work for more than 20 work days in a 12 -month period due to the same personal illness or injury, the City will pay 66 2/3 % of the employee's salary from the 21st day through the 120th day provided a physician approved by the City certifies that the employee cannot return to work due to that illness or injury in some capacity. The Employee may supplement this benefit by using any available sick leave balance during the absence in order to achieve a regular and full pay check. Benefits payable to an employee under this provision are limited to 119 days of salary in a 12 -month period. Employees are not eligible for prolonged absence leave if a physician approved by the City determines that an employee will not be able to return to work with the City. If at any time after an employee commences receiving prolonged absence leave it is determined by a physician approved by the City that the employee will not be able to return to work with the City, the prolonged absence leave shall be terminated. 54248.02 3 SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be effective fifteen (15) days following the date of publication. ADOPTED this 2nd day of SPptpmhar City of St. Louis Park. ATTEST: , 1997, by the City Council of the Adopted by the City Council on September 2 , 19_92_. REVIEWED FOR ADNIINISTRATION: APPROVED AS TO FORM AND 54248.02 4 1 e STATE OF MINNESOTA) SS COUNTY OF HENNEPIN) Denis L. Mindak hdNNESOTA IJ exerWiwt OMbM eu.t..eor AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION , being duly sworn on an oath says that he/she is the publisher or authonzed agent and employee of the publisher of the newspaper known as Sun -Sailor , and has full knowledge of the facts which are stated below. (A) The newspaper has complied with all of the requirements constituting qualification as a qualified newspaper, as provided by Minnesota Statue 331A.02, 331A.07, and other applicable laws, as amended (B)Thepnnted Ordinance No. 2099-97 which Is attached was cut from the columns of said newspaper, and was pnnted and published once each week, for o n e successive weeks; it was first published on Wednesday the 10 day of Sept ember , 19 9 7, and was thereafter printed and published on every to and including ,the day of , 19 : and printed below is a copy of t�Gwer case alphabet from A to Z, both inclusive, which is hereby acknowledged as being the size and kind of type used in the composition and publication of the notice: abcdefgltjklmnopgre Wvwxyz BY:1/lel TITLE: Publisher Acknowledged before me on this 10 day of Sept mber 19 97 . Not Public gasoot WA:7-1sx.. +a3sa,0-a sws it Mi HEDBLO(1 :40TA:1\ PUBLIC-MINNEESOTA A7� HEP:NEPIt "MINTY g- P, r Commissron rrptral Jan 31, 201)3 RATE INFORMATION (1) Lowest classified rate pard by commercial users for comparable space Maximum rate allowed by law for the above matter • (3) Rate actually charged for the above matter $ 2 55 per line $ 6 20 per line $ 1 20 per line City of St. Louis Park (Official Publication) ORDINANCE NO 2099-97 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE PERSONNEL CODE Summary. This ordinance amends Chapter 3, Part 6 afthe city code by elimmat-f 1ckTlenve and vacation leave' J J imd repIaeing t with Oex leave ef- feiiivEonly for non=union, non su-i —-"-pervisory employees Effective Date; Thus ordinance shall be in effect% yOctobgr 10, 1997 �Ada_pted hythe City Council1 September 2, 1997 /s Gail Dorfman Mayor (The full text of this ordinance is available with the City Clerk ) (September 10, 1997)A3/Cty SLP 2099 97