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5. At the end of an employee's career,basic vacation will be redeemable for cash(compensable <br /> based on the employee's then applicable hourly rate of pay)for all basic vacation hours accrued to <br /> a maximum of 384 hours,or such other maximum as appears in the Letter of Understanding <br /> concerning vacations appended hereto. <br /> 6. Floating vacation shifts already accrued may be taken at the employee's request,provided that the <br /> Department has the right to deny a request where taking the day would result in overtime. So that <br /> the employee may have a reasonable opportunity to plan for the usage of such floating vacation <br /> days,the Department will ensure that if the approval of the day off does not appear to cause <br /> overtime as of fourteen(14)days prior to the date of the day off,then the Department will assure <br /> the employee that he/she may take the day off. The only circumstances in which floating vacation <br /> shifts will be redeemable for cash(compensable based on the employee's then applicable hourly <br /> rate of pay)at the end of an employee's career shall be: <br /> A. Said floating vacation days were accrued prior to January 1, 1988, or <br /> B. The employee dies while in the employment of the City. <br /> 7. Vacation slots for fire suppression and non-suppression personnel shall be set by the Fire <br /> Department in November of each year for the following year vacation selection. <br /> A vacation slot shall be defined for suppression personnel as a 24 hour shift.For non-suppression <br /> personnel, a vacation slot shall be defined as an eight(8)hour day,Monday through Friday. <br /> Beginning 2021 Vacation selection shall be altered as follows: <br /> The suppression vacation calendar shall be divided into 365 daily rows and six columns as <br /> depicted in Appendix B. The intersection of rows and columns shall be termed"slots"and <br /> represent a 24-hour shift. <br /> Fire administration reserves the right to block one continuous calendar week in January each year <br /> for departmental training purposes. <br /> Battalion chiefs,captains,drivers and firefighters shall select vacation slots in two rounds based <br /> on seniority and have access to columns 1-4 and will fill selected slots in successive order until <br /> the rows slots are filled. <br /> Paramedics shall select vacation slots in two rounds based on seniority and have access to <br /> columns 5-4 and will fill selected slots in reverse order until the rows slots are filled. <br /> MSOs will select their vacation in column six only. In the event MSOs are staffed continuously, <br /> they will be merged with the paramedics and column 6 will be deleted. <br /> The number of available fourth column slots is determined by a formula based on the total <br /> number of 24 hour shifts of vacation allocated to suppression in November of the year prior to <br /> selection. The formula for calculating the number of available fourth column slots: <br /> [Sum of All Suppression 24 Hour Vacation Shifts]—[365*3] =Total 4th Column Available Slots <br /> per year. These will be distributed to the four platoons based on staffing numbers per platoon. <br /> 20 <br />