Agmt19 MOU Service Employes International Union Local 521

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ARTICLE 24 - USE OF PERSONAL VEHICLE AND MILEAGE PAYMENT 24.1 Mileage Payment The City shall reimburse employees for those miles employees are required to drive their personal vehicles in the performance of assigned job duties as follows: 24.1.1 For travel to and from destinations of less than three hundred (300) miles, actual costs to and from destination not to exceed a maximum of the currently effective standard mileage rate prescribed by the Internal Revenue Service for the business use of personal vehicles pursuant to Internal Revenue Service Code Section 162 for miles traveled both within and outside the City in a privately owned conveyance; 24.1.2 For travel to and from destination in excess of three hundred (300) miles said maximum shall not exceed actual air coach fare when such fare is less than the amount computed at the aforesaid rates. For the purposes of this subsection, the actual cost of fuel, maintenance, repairs, insurance and depreciation, shall be deemed equal to the maximum allowance provided for in this subsection. 24.2 Other Expenses The City will reimburse employees for expenses incurred in performance of their assigned job duties when such other expenses are other than, or in addition to, expenses based upon mileage transportation costs as provided in Article 24.1. 24.3 Compensation for Vehicular Damage The existing City Administrative Policy Number 8 entitled 'Property Damage' in effect as of the date of this agreement, and as subsequently amended subject to notice to the Union and the opportunity to meet and confer where required by law, shall be followed. ARTICLE 25 - SAFETY 25.1 Both the City and the Union shall expend every effort to see to it that work is performed with a maximum degree of safety, consistent with the requirement to conduct efficient operations. 25.2 Each employee covered by this MOU agrees to comply with all safety rules and regulations in effect and any subsequent rules and regulations that may be adopted. Employees further agree that they will report all accidents and safety hazards to the appropriate management official immediately. Any employee having knowledge of or who is witness to an accident shall, if requested, give full and truthful testimony as to same. 25.3 The City has established a safety program in each department and two (2) representatives of the SEIU Unit shall serve on each departmental safety committee. One representative of the SEIU Unit shall serve on the citywide safety committee. 25.4 Employees shall not be required to operate equipment that has been deemed unsafe. 46