Off Season Vacation Bonus Program. The city wishes to encourage twenty-four-hour shift scheduled employees to utilize their vacation time throughout the fiscal year in order to reduce overtime and increase the availability of prime vacation time to less senior employees. The program will be implemented, at the discretion of the city, ensuring that customer service needs are met, minimum staffing needs are met, productivity is maintained, and there is no overtime expense, paid or compensatory time off. Therefore, this bonus program for off-season vacation scheduling is not available when the minimum staffing needs, as determined by the city, are unmet and there is overtime cost associated with approving the requested bonus vacation. The city offers eight (8) hours bonus vacation time off with pay for every thirty-two (32) consecutive vacation hours off, taken between December 1 and May 31, excluding the period from December 15 through December 31. No more than two-eight-hour blocks of vacation bonus hours (16 hours) can be earned and taken each fiscal year. The eight (8) vacation bonus hours off, must be taken consecutive to a block of thirty-two (32) consecutive vacation hours off, for a minimum total of forty (40) consecutive vacation hours off and a maximum total of eighty (80) consecutive vacation hours off. There is no carry forward to another fiscal year.
