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Section 35. Tools - Equipment Section <br />The City shall provide tool insurance to cover the <br />reasonable value of the hand tools furnished by employees <br />in the Automotive Mechanic and Equipment Mechanic <br />classifications against loss in excess of sixty dollars <br />($60.00) per occurrence arising from theft or <br />catastrophic damage. It is understood that the City may <br />institute reasonable rules for the purpose of limiting <br />claims under this tool insurance. <br />These rules shall provide for, but not be limited to, <br />tool inventories, audit of tool inventories, restrictions <br />on removal of tools from the automotive shop and <br />requirements for the proper safeguarding of tools by the <br />employees, which includes securement and lock-up of tools <br />at the end of each working period. <br />For the period of this Memorandum of Understanding, <br />employees regularly assigned to the Public Works <br />Equipment Section, who are required to provide and use <br />their own tools shall be reimbursed by the City for <br />broken, worn out, and/or technologically obsolete tools, <br />to a maximum of three hundred and thirty ($330.00) per <br />fiscal year. Such reimbursement shall be paid once each <br />fiscal year only upon submission of acceptable <br />justification and receipts to the Public Works Services <br />Director. <br />Section 36. Catastrophic Illness Leave <br />The objective of this section is to complement the City's <br />illness protection program for employees by improving <br />health benefits in instances of catastrophic illness, and <br />thereby aid employees to do better work. <br />An employee holding a full-time position with permanent <br />status who has completed two (2) full years of continuous <br />service shall be eligible for the catastrophic illness <br />leave benefit upon receiving a prior favorable <br />recommendation therefore from the department head <br />concerned and only upon the specific approval of the City <br />Manager. To be eligible for leave under this section, <br />such employee must be unable to work at his/her position <br />or any less demanding position to which he/she may be <br />assigned by the department head concerned, and must have <br />exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, <br />37 <br />