AMENDMENT TO AGREEMENT
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AMENDMENT TO AGREEMENT
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THIS AMENDMENT TO AGREEMENT is executed this 1/ day
of /'>/ ~ ' A. D., 1979, by and between the
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CITY OF CLEAR WA TER, FLORIDA, ("City"), and the FLORIDA STATE
LODGE OF THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE, ("FOP"), PERC
Certification Number 76 -E-92-1 029, which certification include s all police
officers below the rank of sergeant, traffic enforcement officers and parkette s;
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, the City and the FOP executed an Agreement on
October 11, 1977, which Agreement provided for the re-negotiation of
certain clauses for the period from October 1, 1978, to September 30, 1979;
and
WHEREAS, the City and the FOP de sire to amend said Agreement
to include the re-negotiated clauses;
NOW, THEREFORE, the following Articles are re-written to read
as follows, and the parties hereto do hereby agree as follows, to be retroactive
to October 1, 1978:
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AR TICLE XIV
DIRECT ECONOMIC PROVISIONS
The City agrees to provide the following benefits for the members
of the bargaining unit:
Section 1. Holidays.
(a) There shall be eleven (11) paid holidays for members of the Police
Department. These holidays shall be:
New Year's Day
Washington's Birthday
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Veteran's Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day
Employe e I sOwn Bi rthda y
2 Floating Holidays
(b) In the event that one of the above named holidays occurs during
the course of an employee's vacation, then the employee's vacation shall be
extended by one day.
(c) In the event that one of the above named holidays occurs while
an employee is on sick leave, the employee shall receive holiday pay and
shall not be charged sick leave pay for that day.
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Section 2. Vacations.
(a) In the event that a death in the family occurs while the employee
is on vacation, the employee shall be entitled to funeral leave under Section?
of this Article; provided the employee notifies the Department of such death
prior to the end of his vacation. Time charged to funeral leave under Section 7
shall not be charged against the employee's vacation time. In the event that
the employee cannot notify the Department of the death prior to the end of hi s
vacation due to circumstances beyond his control, the employee must notify
the Department of the death in his family at his earliest opportunity.
(b) Where an illness of three (3) days or more occurs during a vacation,
an employee may charge this time to sick leave and such time charged to sick
leave shall not be charged against the employee's accrued vacation.
(c) Upon termination, an employee shall be entitled to receive all
unused vacation pay accumulated as of January 1 of the year of termination.
(d) An employee may petition the Chief of Police or his designee for
permission to split his vacation time. Such permission will be granted if, in
the sole discretion of the Chief, such an arrangement would not be detrimental
to the administration of the Departwent.
(e) The vacation schedule currently in effect shall be as follows:
Years of Completed
Service
Vacation
Days
1 - 2
3
4
5
6
7 - 10
11-13
14 - l5
16 .. 17
1 8- 1 9
20
10
11
12
13
14
l5
16
17
18
19
20
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Section 11. Insurance Benefits.
Committee of three (3) from F. O. P. to meet with City; attendance
and input by C. W. A. and 1. A. F. F. not to be excluded or mandatory for the
purpose of collecting and exchanging data regarding health insurance, and
at the option of the F. O. P., dental insurance. Committee to meet not less
than quarterly; however, the City or the President of the F. O. P. may call a
meeting on not less than five (5) days' notice, and the meeting will be held
within five (5) days if it can be reasonably scheduled. All data will be made
available to all participants.
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Section 13. Wages.
Each member of the bargaining unit will receive an increase
in wages equal to Five Percent (5%) above that shown in Appendix A.
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Section 14. Compensation Time.
Officers shall have the option of designating overtime as compen-
satory time under the following procedure:
(a) At the time of earning overtime the officer shall, on the form
provided by the Department, designate whether the hours earned are to be
treated as paid time hours or compensatory time.
(b) At the conclusion of each work week the payroll clerk shall allocate
the hours in the manner designated by the officer. All time designated as
paid time shall be processed for payment in the normal manner. All time
designated as compensatory time will be credited to the officer's compensatory
time account. Hours earned as straight time shall be credited as straight
time. Hours worked in excess of forty (40) hours in a work week shall be
credited at one-and-one-half (1-1/2) times the hours worked in excess of
forty (40) hours.
(c) An officer may request compensatory time off by filing a written
request with his supervisor who shall have the authority to grant or deny
the requested time off. Permission to take time off shall not be arbitrarily
denied. All compensatory time earned during a scheduled shift cy.cle must
be used during the scheduled shift cycle during which it was earned, except
that an officer may retain up to sixteen (16) hours of compensatory time during
the fiscal year. All unused and uuretained compensatory time in an officer's
account at the end of a scheduled shift cycle shall be paid off at the officer's
straight time regular rate of pay in effect on the date of the end of the
scheduled shift cycle. Compensatory hours off shall not be considered as
hours worked in computing overtime under Section 12 of this Article.
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DIRECT ECONOMIC PROVISIONS
Section 15. Shift Differential.
Officers shall be entitled to shift differential pay as set forth in
this Section.
(a) For purposes of computing shift differential pay the following
shift series and lump surnpayments are established:
Shift Serie s No.
Hour s
Payment pe r
14 day period
100
200
300
2400 - 0700
0700 - 1600
1600 - 2400
$25.00
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$l5.00
(b) An officer's shift differential shall be determined by the shift
series into which the majority of the hours of his regularly assigned shift
for the scheduled shift cycle falls and without regard to the starting or ending
time of the officer's shift. Temporary shift or duty assignments shall not
entit1e:an officer to shift differential pay.
(c) Payments under this Section are lump sum payments and are not
to be used for the computation of any other payment under this Agreement.
Shift differential pay shall be paid to any officer regularly as signed to a
Series 100 or 300 shift and shall not be prorated on account of vacation,
holidays or other paid time off.
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Section 16. Standby Pay.
(a) Detectives and patrolman technicians assigned nightly standby
shall be paid $5.00 per night and on weekend standby shall be paid $25. 00
for each weekend assignment.
(b) Standby shall be defined as a specific requirement for an employee,
in addition to his work week, to be continually available and to respond to
work at times other than his normal work hours.
(c) Standby assignments may only be made by the Chief or his written
designee, with prior approval of the Appointing Authority, who shall be
empowered to issue blanket approvals.
(d) A patrolman technician or detective placed on standby who is
not available to work when called shall not be paid the standby premium and
shall be subject to disciplinary action.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have hereunder set
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their hands and seals this II day of {,:'/~'- , A. D., 1979.
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CITY OF! CLEARWATE:~t, FLORIDA
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Approved as,to form and
correctness:
FLORIDA STATE LODGE
FRA TERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
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