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recognized as a bilingual skill under this Article 15.6.2 An employee who has passed the City's proficiency test and is assigned job duties with advanced bilingual skills are eligible to receive a five percent (5%) pay differential for the use of these advanced skills in job duties arising during the normal course of work. Advanced bilingual skills, for purposes of the five percent (5%) pay differential, are defined as the ability to translate and communicate beyond conversational speaking and/or basic writing. Employees who receive the five percent (5%) advanced bilingual differential are required, when called upon, to utilize their skills citywide. 15.6.3 Eligibility for the regular or advanced bilingual pay differential shall be determined by the Personnel Officer on the basis of an oral proficiency test and an oral and written proficiency test, respectively. Both tests will be developed and administered by the City. To retain the two and one half percent (2.5%) differential, employees will be required to pass the City's proficiency test once every three (3) years. To retain the five percent (5%) differential, employees will be required to pass the City's proficiency test once every five (5) years. Dispatchers will be permitted to take the same proficiency test given to City Police Officers. 15.6.4 Bilingual skills shall not be a condition of employment except for employees who are hired specifically with that requirement. If an employee is hired under this provision, that requirement shall be included in the initial appointment letter. 15.6.5 The City has the right to discontinue the bilingual differential at any time, provided the City gives the exclusive representative ten (10) days' notice prior to such revocation, in order to allow the opportunity for the parties to meet and confer. 15.6.6 No employee shall be required to use bilingual skills who is not compensated under this Article. 15.6.7 If an employee requests to receive bilingual pay and the request is denied, the employee may request an audit of the employee's frequency and business necessity of bilingual skills used within the course and scope of the employee's job. Audit findings shall be submitted to the Personnel Officer, who shall make a final determination regarding whether the employee shall be eligible for bilingual differential. Assignment of bilingual differential shall not be subject to the grievance procedure. 15.6.8 Within one hundred and twenty (120) days of City Council approval of this 2019 MOU, the City and Union will form a committee to discuss Department administration of bilingual pay. 15.7 Agricultural Pest Control Advisors License Differential 15.7.1 Workers who are assigned by the supervisor to job duties requiring a Pest Control Advisors (PCA) license are eligible to receive a two and one-half percent (2.5%) pay differential for the use of pest control advisors' skills in job duties arising during the normal course of work. 15.7.2 Acquiring a PCA license shall not be a condition of employment except for workers who are hired specifically with that requirement. If a worker is hired under this provision, that requirement shall be included in the initial appointment letter. 15.7.3 The City has the right to discontinue the PCA license differential at any time, provided the City gives the exclusive representative ten (10) working days' notice prior to such revocation, in order to allow the opportunity for the parties to meet and confer. 77