Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the City Auditor to make payment to Joseph Rossetti for vacation time which has been accumulated in excess of the maximum amount established by the Collective Bargaining Contract between the City of Columbus and AFSCME Local 1632. Mr. Rossetti has been unable to take vacation due to the shortage of drivers in the Mobile Tool Program.
Emergency action is requested to facilitate prompt payment for the unused vacation leave.
FISCAL IMPACT: The 2005 budget for the Housing Division did not include this expenditure.
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To authorize and direct the City Auditor to make payment of $2,080.00 to Joseph Rossetti for vacation time and benefits which have been accumulated in excess of the maximum amount established by the Collective Bargaining Contract between the City of Columbus and AFSCME Local 1632; to authorize the expenditure of $2,080.00 from the Community Development Block Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($2,080.00)
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Whereas, Article 20 of the Collective Bargaining Contract between the City of Columbus and AFSCME Local 1632 provides for payment of accrued vacation balances in excess of the maximums fixed by Section 20.2; and
Whereas, Joseph Rossetti, Development Technician Mobile Tool, will have 106.669 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 Joseph Rossetti take the vacation leave which would otherwise be forfeited; and
Whereas, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development in that it is immediately necessary to make payment to Joseph Rossetti for vacation time and benefits which have been accumulated in excess of the maximum amount established by the Collective Bargaining Contract between the City of Columbus and AFSCME Local 1632 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 Joseph Rossetti for a vacation balance in excess of the maximum fixed by Article 20.2 of the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the City of Columbus and AFSCME Local 1632 and the associated retirement and workers compensation contributions.
Section 2. That the expenditure of $2,080.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary from the Department of Development, Housing Division, Division No. 44-10, CDBG Fund, Fund 248, Object Level One 01, Object Level Three 1101, OCA Code 445010, is hereby authorized.
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.