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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 wellness program for employees by <br /> improving health benefits in instances of catastrophic illness, and thereby aid employees to do <br /> 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 ('/z) of the accumulated sick leave the employee had when the catastrophic illness <br /> occurred to a maximum catastrophic leave of fifty (50) workdays; 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 /> The same principles concerning the administration of the sick leave benefit shall be used for <br /> this benefit where applicable. <br /> Section 37. Non-Discrimination <br /> The City and the Union agree that there shall be no discrimination against any employee <br /> because of Union activities or because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital <br /> status, disability, or sexual orientation defined by applicable Federal and State regulations. <br /> 2g <br />