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.DES:yc.9/30/80 GgIGIM O R D I N A N C E N 0. V' Nov 3 198Q ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 2.15 AND 2.27.2 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF REDWOOD CITY, RELATING TO RATES OF REIMBURSEMENT FOR TRANSPORTATION EXPENSES THE COUNCIL OF REDWOOD CITY DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 2.15 of the Code of the City of Redwood City is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 2.15 Transportation expenses shall be allowed as follows: "(a) Actual costs to and from destination shall be allowed, but shall not exceed a maximum computed at twenty cents ($.20) per mile for miles traveled both within and outside the City by carrier service, including a privately -owned conveyance; provided, however, that 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. Notwithstand- ing the foregoing, should the Internal Revenue Service of the United States Department of the Treasury specify, as an automobile expense business deduction for Federal income tax purposes, a standard mileage rate higher than the above mileage rate, said higher rate shall be allowed and substituted for said above rate; provided, further, that if a mileage rate for reimbursement of transportation expenses be specified in any memorandum of understanding or memorandum of agreement approved by the Council for any employee organization of the City, the rate specified in such memorandum shall govern reimbursement for transportation expenses incurred by any employee subject to or governed by the provisions of such memorandum. For the purposes of this subsection, the actual cost for miles actually traveled by privately -owned conveyance, including costs of fuel, maintenance, repairs, insurance and deprecia- tion shall be deemed equal to the maximum allowance provided for in this subsection. "(b) Any employee of the City who is required to keep available a privately -owned vehicle for use in traveling on City business during working days as a condition of employment shall be allowed, as determined by the City Manager, an amount equal to estimated actual costs (including costs of fuel, maintenance, repairs, insurance and depreciation) of such business use." SECTION 2. Section 2.27.2 of the Code of the City of Redwood City is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 2.27.2 Advance for, or reimbursement of expenses of a member of the Council necessarily and properly to be 181