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<br />31 <br /> <br />After completion of the nineteenth (19th) year of service, employees shall accrue <br />vacation at a rate (10.769 hours per pay period) that yields two hundred eighty <br />(280) hours of vacation per year. <br /> <br />In the event an employee of the Fire Department regularly assigned to a fifty-six <br />(56) hour workweek schedule is temporarily assigned by the Fire Chief with the <br />approval of the City Manager to a forty (40) hour workweek, vacation leave for <br />such employee shall continue to be credited at the fifty-six (56) hour rate, <br />provided that vacation leave taken on the forty (40) hour work schedule will be <br />charged to the employee’s vacation leave bank at a rate of one and four tenths <br />(1.4) hours for every one hour of vacation leave taken. Such appointments and <br />accrual credit shall not exceed ninety (90) calendar days, except by mutual <br />agreement between the Association and the City. <br /> <br />9.4 Vacation leave shall not be accumulated in excess of the amount of vacation <br />hours an employee can accrue in a two (2) year period, based on the employee’s <br />current years of City service computed to the 31st of December, except upon <br />written authorization of the Personnel Officer or designee. <br /> <br />9.5 Upon termination of employment, an employee shall be paid the cash value of <br />any unused vacation leave which has accrued pursuant to MOU Section 9.2 and <br />9.3. <br /> <br />9.6 Vacation Scheduling and Break Protections <br /> <br />Vacation scheduling shall be memorialized in the most recently agreed upon <br />Scheduling Guide. <br /> <br />Sign up will normally commence during the first two weeks in November for the <br />following year. Sign up shall be according to seniority in rank on each shift. The <br />senior Fire Captain and the senior Fire Fighter/Engineer will make their pick, then <br />the second senior Fire Captain and the second senior Fire Fighter/Engineer will <br />make their pick, etc., until all personnel on that shift have made their first pick. <br />Subsequent rounds will be made in the same fashion. Each round must be <br />completed before moving on to the next round. <br /> <br />Vacation selection hour increments will follow the rules mutually agreed upon <br />by the membership and the command staff. If a vacation is requested and <br />approved, the employee requesting the leave shall enter the leave into the <br />Department’s automated scheduling software. The relief person will be paid the <br />appropriate overtime, with approval. <br /> <br />One hundred twenty (120) hours advance notice is required for cancellations <br />except in an emergency. Any requests made less than forty -eight (48) hours in <br />6.A. - Page 42 of 99 <br />49