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PERS. Prior Ca1PERS service time will be credited to new employees to reduce the <br />contribution rates specified above. <br />Section 34. Transfer <br />For the purpose of employee transfers as defined in Personnel Rules, the classifications of <br />Refuse Collector, Street Maintenance Worker, Building Maintenance Worker and Park <br />Maintenance Worker shall be interpreted as comparable classifications. An employee so <br />transferred shall be paid in accordance with classification to which such employee is <br />transferred. <br />Section 35. Tools -Equipment Section <br />The City shall provide tool insurance to cover the reasonable value of the hand tools furnished <br />by employees in the Automotive Mechanic and Equipment Mechanic classifications against <br />loss in excess of sixty dollars ($60.00) per occurrence arising from theft or catastrophic damage. <br />It is understood that the City may institute reasonable rules for the purpose of limiting claims <br />under this tool insurance. <br />These rules shall provide for, but not be limited to, tool inventories, audit of tool inventories, <br />restrictions on removal of tools from the automotive shop and requirements for the proper <br />safeguarding of tools by the employees, which includes securement and lock-up of tools at the <br />end of each working period. <br />For the period of this Memorandum of Understanding, employees regularly assigned to the <br />Public Works Equipment Section, who are required to provide and use their own tools shall be <br />reimbursed by the City for broken, worn out, and/or technologically obsolete tools, to a <br />maximum of three hundred and fifty-five ($355.00) per fiscal year. Such reimbursement shall <br />be paid once each fiscal year only upon submission of acceptable justification and receipts to <br />the Public Works Services Director. <br />Section 36. Catastrophic Illness Leave <br />The objective of this section is to complement the City's illness protection program for <br />employees by improving health benefits in instances of catastrophic illness, and thereby aid <br />employees to do better work. <br />An employee holding afull-time position with permanent status who has completed two (2) full <br />years of continuous service shall be eligible for the catastrophic illness leave benefit upon <br />receiving a prior favorable recommendation therefore from the department head concerned and <br />only upon the specific approval of the City Manager. To be eligible for leave under this <br />section, such employee must be unable to work at his/her position or any less demanding <br />position to which he/she may be assigned by the department head concerned, and must have <br />exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, vacation, holiday, overtime and all other <br />accumulated leave or pay benefits. <br />Upon receiving prior approval, an employee shall be allowed catastrophic leave up to a total of <br />one-half (%2) of the accumulated sick leave the employee had when the catastrophic illness <br />occurred to a maximum catastrophic leave of fifty (50) work days; an employee who does not <br />have twenty (20) days' accumulated sick leave at the time the catastrophic illness occurs maybe <br />26 <br />