Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the City Auditor to make payment to Patricia VanDyke for vacation time accumulated in excess of the maximum amount established by the Management Compensation Plan. It was in the best interest of the City Treasurer's Office that Ms. VanDyke not use this vacation time due to the retirement of the City Treasurer at the end of December 2008. Ms. VanDyke subsequently forfeited 79.90 hours of vacation.
Emergency Action is requested to facilitate prompt payment for the unused vacation leave.
FISCAL IMP ACT: There is appropriation authority available within the 2009 budget to fund this expenditure.
Title
To authorize and direct the City Auditor to make payment of $2,755.74 to Patricia VanDyke for vacation time and benefits accumulated in excess of the maximum amount established by the Management Compensation Plan and subsequently forfeited; to authorize the expenditure of $2,755.74 from the general fund; and to declare an emergency. ($2,755.74)
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WHEREAS, Section 12(C) of the Management Compensation Plan provides for payment of accrued vacation balances in excess of the maximums fixed the Plan; and
WHEREAS, Patricia VanDyke, Administrative Analyst II, had 79.90 hours of excess vacation at the end of the vacation year; and
WHEREAS, it was in the best interest of the City to ask Patricia VanDyke not take the vacation leave which would have otherwise been available and as a consequence, Ms. VanDyke forfeited 79.90 hours of earned vacation time; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City Treasurer's Office, in that it is immediately necessary to make payment to Patricia VanDyke for vacation time and benefits which were accumulated in excess of the maximum amount established by the Management Compensation Plan in order to preserve the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the City Auditor be and hereby is authorized and directed to make payment to Patricia VanDyke for a vacation balance in excess of the maximum fixed by Section 12 (C) of the Management Compensation Plan and the associated workers compensation and medicare contributions.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $2,755.74, or so much thereof as may be necessary in regard to the action authorized in SECTION 1, be and is hereby authorized and approved as follows:
Department: 2301 | Fund: 010 | OCA: 230227 | Object level one: 01 | Object level three code: 1101 | Amount: $2,588.76 | City Treasurer's Office
Department: 2301 | Fund: 010 | OCA: 230227 | Object level one: 01 | Object level three code: 1173 | Amount: $129.44 | City Treasurer's Office
Department: 2301 | Fund: 010 | OCA: 230227 | Object level one: 01 | Object level three code: 1171 | Amount: $37.54 | City Treasurer's Office
SECTION 3. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.