Explanation
Background
Ashley D. Rinehart, an employee of the Department of Public Utilities, inadvertently worked 5.1 hours more than the allotted 480 hours allowed for limited temporary employees. Ms. Rinehart worked 32.3 hours for the pay period ending January 12, 2008 which put her 5.1 hours more than the allotted 480 hours. She was employed by the Department of Public Utilities, Division of Power and Water, and was working at the Meter Shop at 3568 Indianola where she was responsible for reorganizing and labeling bin locations for bar-coding for the meter shop storerooms. She was instrumental in getting the meter shop ready to conduct a 10% monthly physical inventory count. Her last project was to help count during the year end physical inventory in December. Her daily duties included assisting with storeroom activities and doing data entry on each stock transaction. A payment of $86.74 is necessary to pay Ms. Ashley D. Rinehart for wages earned by inadvertently working 5.1 hours over the allotted time of 480 hours.
Fiscal Impact
Sufficient funding is available in the Water Operating Fund for the requested payment.
Emergency action is requested so payment can be made to Ms. Rinehart at the earliest date possible.
Title
To authorize the Director of Public Utilities to make payment to Ashley Rinehart for time inadvertently worked over 480 allowed total hours, to authorize expenditure of $86.74 from the Water Operating Fund and to declare an emergency. ($86.74)
Body
WHEREAS, Ashley D. Rinehart, an employee of the Department of Public Utilities, inadvertently worked 5.1 hours more than the allotted 480 hours allowed for limited temporary employees, and
WHEREAS, Ms. Rinehart was employed by the Department of Public Utilities, Division of Power and Water, and was working at the Meter Shop at 3568 Indianola where she was responsible for reorganizing and labeling bin locations for bar-coding for the meter shop storerooms, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operations of the Department of Public Utilities in that it is immediately necessary to compensate Ms. Ashley Rinehart for wages earned by inadvertently working 5.1 hours over the allotted time of 480 hours, for the preservation of the public peace, property, health and safety, now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the Director of Public Utilities is hereby authorized to make payment to Ashley Rinehart for time inadvertently worked over 480 allowed total hours.
Section 2. That the expenditure of $86.74 or so much there of as may be needed is hereby authorized from Fund 600, Division 60-09, OCA: 601971 as follows:
1112 $68.60
1120 $4.12
1160 $9.60
1171 $0.99
1173 $3.43
Total :$86.74
Section 3. 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 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.