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23 <br /> <br />H. In November of the preceding year of the contract, for each year, Local 46 will notify the City of cashout <br />allocation. The choices will be 100% HRA/VEBA/MERP, 100% cash, or a specific allocation of each. <br />At the end of an employee’s career, vacation will be deposited into that selection (compensable based <br />on the employee’s then applicable hourly rate of pay) for all vacation hours accrued to a maximum of <br />408 hours, or such other maximum as appears in the Letter of Understanding concerning vacations <br />appended hereto. <br /> <br />I. Floating vacation shifts already accrued may be taken at the employee’s request, provided that <br />the Department has the right to deny a request where taking the day would result in overtime. So <br />that the employee may have a reasonable opportunity to plan for the usage of such floating <br />vacation days, the Department will ensure that if the approval of the day off does not appear to <br />cause overtime as of fourteen (14) days prior to the date of the day off, then the Department will <br />assure the employee that he/she may take the day off. The only circumstances in which floating <br />vacation shifts will be redeemable for cash (compensable based on the employee’s then <br />applicable hourly rate of pay) at the end of an employee’s career shall be if the employee dies <br />while in the employment of the City. <br /> <br />J. Vacation slots for fire suppression shall be set by the Fire Department in November of each year <br />for the following year vacation selection. <br /> <br />A vacation slot shall be defined for suppression personnel as a 24-hour shift <br /> <br />The suppression vacation calendar shall be divided into 365 daily rows and six columns as depicted <br />in Appendix B. The intersection of rows and columns shall be termed “slots” and represent a 24- <br />hour shift. <br /> <br />Fire administration reserves the right to block one continuous calendar week in January each year for <br />departmental training purposes. <br /> <br />Battalion chiefs, captains, drivers, and firefighters shall select vacation slots in two rounds and holiday <br />time in a third round, based on seniority and have access to columns 1-5 slots will be filled in successive <br />order until the rows slots are filled. No more than 4 of each of these classifications may be off on any <br />given day. <br /> <br />Paramedics and MSOs shall select vacation slots in two rounds and holiday time in a third round, <br />based on seniority and have access to columns 6-5. Slots will be filled in reverse order until the <br />rows slots are filled. A combination of up to 2 paramedics and/or MSOs may be off on any given <br />day. <br /> <br />During the course of the calendar year, battalion chiefs, captains, drivers and firefighters may access their <br />accrued vacation hours in 24-hour increments for any open slots in columns 1-5. <br /> <br />During the course of the calendar year paramedics and MSOs may access their accrued vacation hours in <br />24- hour increments for any open slots in column 5 and 6. <br /> <br />An open slot is any slot where vacation has not been picked or where a vacation has been cancelled.