Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the payment of $2,113.17 for vacation time and benefits that has accumulated in excess of the maximum amount established by the salary ordinance for MCP employees.
Management Analyst II Analyst Dana Liming has been required to work on the Columbus Human Resources Information System (CHRIS) project in order to ensure that critical deadlines were met and was unable to utilize accrued vacation time.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funds are available in the budget for these payments and are contingent on passage of Ordinance 1996-2011.
Title
To authorize the payment of $2,113.17 for vacation time and benefits which have accumulated in excess of the maximum amount established by salary ordinance for MCP employees; and to declare and emergency. ($2,113.17)
Body
WHEREAS, Management Analyst II Dana Liming has requested payment for vacation that was unable to be taken due to required work on the CHRIS project to meet critical deadlines; and
WHEREAS, the vacation leave has accumulated in excess of the amount established by the salary MCP ordinance; and
WHEREAS, the vacation accrued in excess of the amount established by the salary ordinance must be paid on or before the pay period ending January 21, 2012 or be forfeited; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Human Resources in that it is immediately necessary to provide for the payment of vacation accrued in excess of the established maximum to Management Analyst II Dana Liming for the reasons above; Now, Therefore;
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That this Council determines that it is in the best interest of the City of Columbus to authorize the payment to Dana Liming Management Analyst II the appropriate amount due for accrued vacation time that was not taken by no fault of her own, and which otherwise would be forfeited. Such expenditure is hereby authorized as follows:
Fund: 502 Division: 46-02
OCA Object Level 3 Amount
461049 1133 $2,113.17
TOTAL $2,113.17
SECTION 2. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take affect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor or ten (10) days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.