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Vacation The 2007-2008 union contract has language that specifies that an employee can accrue more than 110% of his/her annual vacation leave if pre -approved by the City Manager. The Public Works/Parks Department have a number of senior maintenance workers that have been with the City for a number of years and are exceeding the maximum accrual that is allowed in the current contract. The following is the vacation language that is in the existing contract; 21.3 Employees with 14 years or more shall be allowed to accrue no more than 110% of annual vacation leave unless an extended accrual is approved by the City Manager. Employees must make extended accrual requests in writing and must fully explain the reason for such accrual. The request must be for a specific vacation purpose, must not seriously affect the City's ability to operate, and may not exceed an additional twenty (20) days. Employees who exceed the accrual limits, without prior authorization by the City Manager, will have their records adjusted at the end of each calendar year to their maximum accrual level. Employees requesting vacation time shall request, and receive approval/disapproval from their supervisor at least four (4) working days in advance of the vacation being requested. 21.4 An employee leaving the municipality's service in good standing and after giving proper notice of termination, shall be compensated for up to 160 hours of accrued vacation leave. In order to alleviate this problem, the City and the Teamsters Local No. 320 have agreed to eliminate the provision that allows members of the Local No. 320 to accrue more than 110% of their vacation totals. Both parties have agreed that it would easier to implement and enforce if the following language was adopted in the next contract. 21.2 An employee leaving the municipality's service in good standing and after giving proper notice of termination, shall be compensated for up to 260 hours of accrued vacation leave. Employees who exceed the 260 hour accrual limit, without prior authorization by the City Manager, will have their records adjusted at the end of each calendar year to the maximum accrual level. Therefore, the maximum amount of vacation time a member of the Local No. 320 can have on the books would be 260 hours as of December 31" of each year. Sick Leave The 2007-2008 union contract has language that specifies that an employee can accrue more than 960 hours of sick leave. The additional sick leave hours that are accrued and placed into a secondary sick leave bank account. The Public Works/Parks Department has four senior maintenance workers that have been with the City for a number of years and have been contributing to a secondary sick leave bank. The secondary sick leave can only be used for personal illness or disability, but the City has allowed the maintenance workers to use the secondary bank to offset sick leave time that is used in the primary sick leave account. When combining the primary and sick leave bank totals of the fourteen maintenance workers, the City of New Brighton currently has a financial liability of $160,612. This in -turn has created a long term financial liability problem for the City. By eliminating the secondary sick leave bank, the I:\COLINCIL\REPORTS\2009\Admin\Local 320 Maintenance Workers Contract.doc