Employee Service Awards Program. The City provides a service award program for its employees to honor their continuous service to the City and the community and to recognize their meritorious service. Under this program, employees receive an award for each 5 years of completed continuous service. In order for an employee to be eligible to receive a service award, and except as otherwise established in this section, the employee must be a full-time regular employee with the City on the employee's anniversary date. The anniversary date is generally defined as the anniversary of the employee's date of appointment as a regular, full-time employee with the City. Effective July 1, 2015, the City shall amend the Employee Service Awards Program as indicated in the following table. A service award is presented to the employee for each 5 years of completed service to the City. To be eligible for the specified service award, and except as otherwise provided for in this section, an employee must have completed the 5 years of full-time, continuous service with the City that are contiguous to and immediately precede his/her anniversary date. Years of Service Award 5 $ 500 10 $1,000 15 $1,500 20 $2,000 25 $2,500 30 $2,500 Years of Service Award 35 $2,500 40 $2,500 Eligible employees must have received "meets standards" or higher for all rating categories in each annual performance evaluation issued during the eligibility period. An employee receiving less than "meets standards" ratings shall have his/her eligible anniversary date changed by adding an additional year for each performance evaluation issued during the eligibility period in which 1 or more ratings appear that were below "meets standards." The anniversary date of an employee shall not be changed for failure of the supervisor to issue a performance evaluation for a rating period. In the absence of any one of the evaluations due during the eligibility period, the City Manager or his designee shall conclude that "meets standards" would have applied for each rating category. The City shall include an eligible employee's service award on a payroll in the month following his/her anniversary date, or as soon as practical thereafter. An employee leaving full-time City employment, for whatever reason, prior to his/her eligible anniversary date shall be ineligible to receive the service award. An employee leaving full-time City employment prior to his/her eligibility for a service award, for whatever reason, and returning after an absence of 30 days o...
