Traffic Section (Lieutenant). The CITY shall provide a live forum at which employees at the rank of Police Officer may present their bids. Such live forum, as established by the CITY, shall be considered optional, and will not be considered hours worked unless an officer is scheduled during their normal duty shift. When employees are provided this opportunity during their first shift, their supervisor should allow them to attend on-duty, if possible. However, if the Police Officer is unavailable, his bid sheet form or notarized proxy bid will serve as his preference bid for hours and sergeant’s area. Police Officers with at least four years of continuous service, assigned to A or C shift in the initial bid for hours, and subsequently assigned to UPB patrol area positions may be restricted to A or C Shift within the group of Police Officers assigned to UPB patrol area positions, in order to comply with the “four-year rule” described in Section 5 of the current collective bargaining agreement. ESTABLISHING SPECIALTY POSITION ELIGIBILITY LISTS The specialty position application process for all specialty positions will occur once a year. Testing will only occur as needed when a vacancy occurs. Anyone who applies will have the opportunity to test. This process will take place in December and the list will become effective every January 15th. Any sworn employee who transfers from a specialty position application group and desires consideration to transfer back into the same specialty position application group within that same semi-annual detail period may request to do so by submitting an interoffice to the Captain of that particular specialty position application group. The intent of this language is to allow sworn employee(s) the opportunity to return to a specialty position, within a defined time period, without the need to retest or re-apply. Specialty Position Selections Specialty Position Eligibility Lists expire January 14th of every year. At the discretion of the Chief, a Specialty Position Eligibility List may be declared expired if: □ 80% of the candidates on such list have been placed in a specialty position or have been offered and declined a specialty position, or □ if three or less officer candidates or two or less sergeant candidates remain on such Specialty Position Eligibility List. If a specialty Position Eligibility List is declared expired, as defined by the language above and prior to the regularly scheduled expiration date (i.e. January 14th), a candidate may be select...
