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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 four hundred dollars ($400.00) per fiscal year. Such reimbursement shall be paid <br /> once each fiscal year only upon submission of acceptable justification and receipts to the Public <br /> Works Services Director. <br /> Section 36. Catastrophic Illness Leave <br /> The objective of this section is to allow donation of accrued time to affected employees, so that <br /> he/she can remain in a paid status for a longer period of time, thus partially ameliorating the <br /> financial impact of the illness, injury or condition. <br /> An employee holding a full-time position with permanent status who has completed one (1) <br /> year 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 have sustained or have an immediate family member who has <br /> sustained a life threatening or debilitating illness, injury or condition which may require <br /> confirmation by a physician, 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. Immediate family member for this section is defined as the <br /> employee's spouse/registered domestic partner, minor children/step-children/dependents of <br /> registered domestic partner(18 years of age or younger), who live in the household. <br /> Eligible employees may receive up to a maximum of 1,000 hours of donated leave benefits <br /> from full-time employees due to a catastrophic illness. Employee can utilize up to 500 hours of <br /> donated sick leave initially. Under extraordinarily desperate conditions, a one-time additional <br /> increment of up to 500 hours of accrued vacation leave may be approved by the City Manager. <br /> The combination of all such donations would result in time away from work not to exceed <br /> twelve months in duration per incident (whether such leave is taken continuously or <br /> intermittently). <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 /> 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 /> 30 <br />