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9 <br />Section 13. Holidays <br />Each employee represented by the Association shall be entitled to one floating holiday, which <br />shall be scheduled at time mutually convenient to the employee and the Police Chief. The floating <br />holiday must be taken during each calendar year and may not be carried over to another calendar <br />year or converted to pay. <br />Employees shall receive a 7% holiday pay premium in lieu of holiday overtime pay and accruing <br />holiday time. Holiday-in-lieu pay shall be paid in equal amounts in each pay period. <br />Employees wishing to take a holiday off must use accrued leaves. Employee requests for time <br />off on a City holiday will be granted for those working assignments other than patrol. Employees <br />assigned to patrol will have time off requests approved subject to existing practice for time off <br />requests. At his/her discretion, the Police Chief may require that specified holidays must be taken <br />off by all employees working assignments other than patrol, however such directives must apply <br />uniformly to all non-patrol assignments. <br />Section 14. Annual Vacation Leave <br />14.1 The purpose of annual vacation leave is to enable each eligible employee to return to work <br />physically and mentally refreshed. In the administration of this section, administrative <br />personnel shall be guided by this stated purpose. Full vacation leave shall be taken at <br />one time. However, the Police Chief, under appropriate circumstances may permit a <br />modification of this requirement. The time at which an employee shall take vacation leave <br />during the calendar year shall be determined with due regard for the needs of the <br />department. The vacation/holiday sign-up will be posted in the authorized work locations <br />of the respective divisions for sworn employees of the Police Department not later than <br />November 1, to be completed by December 1, for the next calendar year. <br />Vacation leave may be accumulated to a maximum of two and one half (2.5) years' <br />vacation entitlement and upon the approval of the Police Chief may be taken in one (1) <br />calendar year. Such approval shall be recorded in the employee's personnel file. An <br />employee who fails to take accrued vacation leave within the time herein prescribed shall <br />cease accruing vacation leave until vacation usage reduces below the prescribed limit. <br />An employee who is in unpaid status for 44 or more hours in a pay period shall not accrue <br />vacation leave for that pay period. <br />Upon being separated from City service, an eligible employee shall be entitled to <br />compensation for any accrued but unused vacation calculated at the rate of pay at the <br />time of termination. <br />The following vacation leave provisions do not apply to hourly or part-time employees. <br />14.2 Vacation leave for each full-time employee shall be accrued and credited for the pay <br />period in which it is earned pursuant to the following accrual schedule effective January 1, <br />2020: <br />77