HomeMy WebLinkAbout1980-2421 OVERTIME PAY FOR CERTAIN CITY EMPLOYEES ORDINANCE NO. AW
AN ORDINANCE relating to city government personnel; providing for
overtime pay for certain employees; amending Subsec-
tion 2.40.100 A. 3. of the City of Yakima Municipsl
Code; and declaring an emergency.
WHEREAS, because of the eruption of the Mount St. Helens
411 volcano and resulting ash fallout, and the emergency thereby
created which requires extraordinary time and effort by certain
city employees in performing cleanup operations and other emergency
work attributable to the volcanic eruption, and
WHEREAS, under existing provisions of the City of Yakima Muni-
cipal Code, no provision is made for overtime pay for city depart-
ment heads, and the City Council deems it to be in the best
interests of the City that overtime payment be provided for depart-
ment heads when the overtime work is attributable to such an
emergency, with this ordinance to be effective so as to be applic-
able for the overtime work performed by department heads during
the current emergency period which commenced on May 18, 1980; and
the City Council finds an emergency to exist of the type contem-
plated by Article VI, Section 2, of the Yakima City Charter so
that this ordinance shall become immediately effective as provided
by Section 2 hereof, now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. Subsection 2.40.100 A. 3. of the City of Yakima Muni-
cipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
2.40.100 Overtime pay.
A. 3. Department directors, when required to work
overtime in a nonsupervisory capacity because of an emer-
gency determined by the City Manager, may be paid overtime
at a straight time rate; provided, commencing May 18, 1980,
department directors, when required to work in excess of
40 hours during any work week in a supervisory capacity
because of an emergency or unusual circumstance approved
by the City Manager, shall be paid at the rate of time and
one-half for such overtime work."
Section 2. This ordinance is one to provide for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, property, health, safety and wel-
fare of the people of the City of Yakima and an emergency is hereby
declared to exist and this ordinance shall be in full force and
effect immediately upon its passage, approval and publication
as provided by law and by the City Charter.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this ,174day Amk
of JJi , 1980.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
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