Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the City Auditor to make payment to Johnny Scales for vacation time which has been accumulated in excess of the maximum amount established by the Management Compensation Plan. Mr. Scales has been unable to take vacation due to various important projects within the Facilities Management Division.
Emergency Action is requested to facilitate prompt payment for the unused vacation leave.
FISCAL IMPACT: The 2005 budget for the Facilities Management Division did not include this expenditure. The difference will be made up through cost savings in other personnel expenditures.
Title
To authorize and direct the City Auditor to make payment of $2,367.39 to Johnny Scales for vacation time and benefits which have been accumulated in excess of the maximum amount established by the Management Compensation Plan; to authorize the expenditure of $2,367.39 from the General Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($2,367.39)
Body
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, Johnny Scales, Facilities Management Division Administrator, will have 41.778 hours of excess vacation at the end of the vacation year; and
WHEREAS, it is not in the best interest of the City to have Johnny Scales take the vacation leave which would otherwise be forfeited; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Finance and Management Department, Facilities Management Division, in that it is immediately necessary to make payment to Johnny Scales for vacation time and benefits which have been 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 Johnny Scales for a vacation balance in excess of the maximum fixed by Section 12 (C) of the Management Compensation Plan and the associated retirement and workers compensation contributions.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $2,367.39, or so much thereof that may be necessary in regard to the action authorized in SECTION 1, be and is hereby authorized and approved as follows:
Division: 45-07
Fund: 010
OCA Code: 450039
Object Level 1: 01
Object Level 3: 1101
Amount: $2,367.39
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.