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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 a full -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 (%) 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 may be <br /> permitted up to ten (10) working days' catastrophic leave. Leave under this section shall <br /> become effective after all other paid leave is exhausted. During any period of catastrophic <br /> illness leave, the employee shall receive compensation at the rate of sixty percent (60 %) of <br /> his /her regular base pay. <br /> A minimum of one (1) year must elapse following the termination of the catastrophic illness <br /> leave before an employee may be permitted further catastrophic illness leave. However, if <br /> subsequent catastrophic illness occurs within a year following the termination of the previous <br /> catastrophic illness leave, an employee may be permitted to use whatever accumulated paid <br /> leave he /she has and then whatever catastrophic illness leave he /she was eligible for but did not <br /> use. <br /> 27 <br />