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Home My WebLink About16388 ORD - 07/15/1981AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE COMPENSATION ORDINANCE NO. 8127, AS AMENDED, BY AMENDING SECTION 501 BY SUBSTITUTING THE ATTACHED REVISED SCHEDULE FOR THE EXISTING PUBLIC SAFETY GROUP SALARY SCHEDULE --POLICE, TO PROVIDE FOR A COST -OF -LIVING INCREASE ABOVE PRE- VIOUS SALARY LEVELS OF 1.5% EFFECTIVE JULY 12, 1981, ADDITIONAL 8% COST -OF -LIVING INCREASE ABOVE PREVIOUS SALARY LEVELS EFFECTIVE JULY 27, 1981, AND AN ADDITIONAL 8.5% COST -OF -LIVING INCREASE ABOVE PREVIOUS SALARY LEVELS EFFECTIVE JULY 26, 1982; AMENDING SECTION 700, SPECIAL COMPENSATION PROVISIONS, BY AMENDING, SUBSECTION 704.2 TO PROVIDE FOR CLOTHING ALLOWANCE FOR EACH POLICE OFFICER AND FOR EACH FIREFIGHTER OF THE CITY FOR THE PURPOSE OF UNIFORM AND CLOTHING CLEANING AND MAINTENANCE; ADDING A NEW SUBSECTION TO SECTION 700, TO BE NUM- BERED 707, TO PROVIDE FOR SPECIAL COMPENSATION PRO- VISIONS FOR BREATHALIZER OPERATORS IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND FOR POLICE EMPLOYEES ASSIGNED TO THE BOMB SQUAD; ADDING SUBSECTION 708 TO PROVIDE PISTOL QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS; AMENDING SECTION 800, OVERTIME COMPENSATION, BY AMENDING SUBSECTION 801 TO PROVIDE FOR AUTHORIZED OVERTIME AND TO PROVIDE A MINIMUM AMOUNT OF OVERTIME; AMENDING SECTION 900, HOLIDAYS, SUBSECTION 900.5, TO PROVIDE FOR HOLIDAY LEAVE WITH PAY; AMENDING SECTION 952, SICK LEAVE, SUBSECTION 952.2, TO PROVIDE FOR SICK LEAVE FOR POLICE PERSONNEL IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE CURRENT POLICE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING CONTRACT; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE; PROVIDING A SEVERANCE CLAUSE; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1.- That the Compensation Ordinance for the City of Corpus Christi, No. 8127, as amended, be and the same is hereby amended by amending Section 501 by substituting the attached revised Police Salary Schedule, Exhibit "A", for the existing Public Safety Salary Schedule -- Police, reflecting a 1.5% cost -of -living increase effective July 12, 1981, additional 8% cost -of -living increase above previous salary levels effective July 27, 1981 and an additional 8.5% cost -of -living increase above previous salary levels effective July 26, 1982. SECTION 2. That Section 700 SPECIAL COMPENSATION PROVISIONS of the Compensation Ordinance be amended by amending Subsection 704.2 to hereafter read as follows: "704.2 A clothing allowance of $300 shall be paid to all Police Officers who are required by order of the Chief of Police to wear civilian 1 LME. 16388 SEP 2 7191 r.1 vr.i clothing during their work assignment. For each year thereafter, the City shall pay up to $300 for replacement cost for those persons so autho- rized. A clothing allowance of $25 per month shall be provided to each Police Officer of the Police Department, and a clothing allowance of $15 per month shall be provided to each Firefighter of the Fire Department for the purpose of uniform and clothing cleaning and maintenance. Effective July 26, 1982, the clothing allowance shall be increased to $35 per month for each Police Officer of the Police Department." Section 3. That Subsection 707 be added to Section 700, said subsection to hereafter read as follows: "707 Breathalyzer Certification Pay and Bomb Squad Pay. All officers certified and assigned as breathalyzer operators shall receive extra pay of $30 per month. All Police employees assigned to the bomb squad shall receive extra pay for such hazardous duty of $40 per month." SECTION 4. That Subsection 708 be added to Section 700, said subsection to hereafter read as follows: "708 Pistol Qualification Requirement. Pistol qualification pay of $15 per month shall be paid to Police Officers who qualify at the pistol range by shooting an expert's score (89 to 94) each month, and $25 per month shall be paid to officers shooting a master's score (94 to 100) each month. All officers shall be required to shoot a minimum score of 70 each month. Officers whose shift assignments are completely outside the hours when the range is open shall be required to shoot on their own time and shall be paid at the rate of two hours overtime each month for required attendance." SECTION 5. That Section 800 OVERTIME COMPENSATION be amended so as to amend Subsection 801 to hereafter read as follows: "801 Authorized Overtime In emergencies, a department head may prescribe reasonable periods of overtime work to meet operational needs. Overtime shall not be established as a regular continuing extension of the normal work week. Overtime work performed by Police Officers of less than one-half hour following the end of each shift shall not be compensable unless it exceeds thirty minutes. Where thirty minutes is exceeded, all time worked as a -2- holdover from a shift shall be paid at the overtime rate. The minimum working hours to be reported as call back time shall be three hours regard- less of the actual time required for Police and Fire employees. With the pre- ceding exceptions, all authorized overtime shall be reported to the nearest quarter hour." SECTION 6, That Section 900 HOLIDAYS be amended so as to amend Subsection 900.5 to hereafter read as follows: "900.5 Firemen and Policemen shall be credited with one day holi- day leave with pay for each designated holiday worked. If a declared holiday falls upon the employee's normal day off, an extra day shall be added to his holiday leave. Unused holiday leave shall be paid on termination. After August 1, 1982, Police Officers shall, in addition to holiday leave with pay, be paid overtime at the rate of one and one-half times the regular rate of pay for work performed on any City holiday." SECTION 7. That Section 952 SICK LEAVE be amended so as to amend Subsection 952.2 to hereafter read as follows: "952.2 Firefighting personnel shall be granted 15 days sick leave per year in compliance with State law. Police personnel shall be granted sick leave in compliance with the current Police collective bargaining con- tract. -Any employee of the Sanitation Division required to work on a sixth day in any week will, when absent on the sixth day, due to 'sick._leave', as defined below, be charged one full day of sick leave. Such sick leave allowance may be used only by an employee when incapacitated to perform his duties due to sickness or non -service -connected disability, when quarantined, or in the event of a serious illness or death in the employee's immediate family. All foreseeable leaves for such purposes shall require specific prior approval of the department head. In the event of sick leave for any purpose, the department head may require a certificate of a medical doctor or other competent professional individual giving information as to the cir- cumstances involved. The immediate family for these purposes shall be regarded to include the parents, spouse, children, brothers, sisters and immediate in-laws in any case, and also shall include grandparents and grand- children when living in the household of the employee." -3- SECTION 8. Except as otherwise may be provided herein, the effective date of the above changes shall be July 27, 1981. SECTION 9. If for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word or provision of this ordinance shall be held invalid or unconstitutional by final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, it shall not phrase, word of this City phrase, word purpose. affect any other section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, or provision of this ordinance, for it is the definite intent Council that every section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, or provision hereof be given full force and effect for its SECTION 10. The necessity to maintain at all times an efficient administration of City affairs creates an imperative public necessity requiring. the suspension of the Charter rule that no ordinance or resolu- tion shall be passed finally on the date of its introduction but that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor or Council members, having declared that such neces- rsity exists, having requested the suspension of the Charter rule and that this ordinance be passed finally on the date of its introduction and take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, this the day of July, 1981. ATTEST: C. Secretary MAYOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS APPRO ED: ISS—DAY OF JULY, 1981: J. BRUCE AYCOCK, CITY ATTORNEY By Assi ant City Attor PUBLIC SAFETY GROUP SALARY SCHEDULE - POLICE Effective July 12, 1981 Class 'Code Class Title Starting 6 18 30 42 914 Trainee $1,014 $ $ $ $ 915 Police Officer 1,178 .1,238 1,301 1,369 1,438 `916 Senior Officer 1,438 1,510 1,584 918 Lieutenant 1,666 1,749 1,838 .Effective July 27,1981 (+8%) Class Code Class Title Starting 6 18 30 . 42 "914 915 916 918 Class Code Trainee Police Officer Senior Officer Lieutenant $1095 1,P72 $1,337 $1,405 $1,479 $1,553 1,553 1,631 1,711 1,799 1,889 1,985 Effective July 26, 1982 (+8.5%) Class Title Starting 6 18 30 42 914 Trainee_ $1,188 $ $ $ $ 915 Police Officer 1,380 1,451 1,524 1,605 1,685 916 Senior Officer 1,685 1,770 1,856 918 Lieutenant 1,952 2,050 2,154 611. g" Corpus Christi, Te / i day of a vc�`� , 19k TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL Corpus Christi, Texas For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity exist for the suspension of the Charter rule or requirement that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date it is introduced, but that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three meetings of the City Council; I/we, therefore, request that you suspend said Charter rule or requirement and pass this ordinance finally on the date it is introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council. Respectfully, Respectfully, Council Members ra is MAYOR IF The City of Corpus Christi, Texas The Charter rule was suspended by the following Luther Jones Betty N. Turner Jack K. Dumphy Bob Gulley Herbert L. Hawkins, Jr. Dr. Charles W. Kennedy Cliff Zarsky The above ordinance was passed Luther Jones Betty N. Turner Jack K. Dumphy Bob Gulley ' Herbert L. Hawkins, Jr. Dr. Charles W. Kennedy Cliff Zarsky vote: by the following vote: 16388