HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC-07-16-12-01 Authorizing Certain Employees of CCCC to Carry Over PTOSPONSORS: Councilors Sharp, Carter and Seidensticker
RESOLUTION CC- 07- 16 -12 -01
A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CARMEL, INDIANA, AUTHORIZING CERTAIN EMPLOYEES OF THE
CARMEL CLAY COMMUNICATIONS CENTER TO CARRY OVER TIME IN
EXCESS OF THE LIMITS ESTABLISHED BY ORDINANCE IN THEIR
PAID TIME OFF (PTO) ACCOUNTS
WHEREAS, the Carmel Clay Communications Center ("CCCC") is scheduled to cease
operations as an independent dispatch center on or about September 1, 2012; and
WHEREAS, employees of CCCC have had knowledge of this closure for nearly one
year; and
WHEREAS, such knowledge has led to the departure of numerous employees, who,
under the circumstances, the City has elected not to replace; and
WHEREAS, in order to maintain adequate staffing, and therefore ensure public safety,
the City has been required under these circumstances to hire additional temporary, part-time staff
and schedule the remaining full -time employees for extra shifts; and
WHEREAS, Carmel Police Department ( "CPD "), which has assumed oversight of
CCCC until its ceases operations, affinns that CCCC employees have been attempting to use
their accrued paid time off ( "PTO ") in excess of 150 hours prior to the June 22, 2012, "use it or
lose it" deadline; and
WHEREAS, some CCCC employees have recently taken PTO, only to work extra shifts
later in the same week, thereby canceling out the PTO through no fault of their own; and
WHEREAS, this is a unique situation in which employees are working extra hours for
reasons that are beyond the control of the employees themselves or their managers, those hours
being in the interest of public safety;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Common Council of the City of
Carmel, Indiana, that any full -time employee of CCCC who, in the opinion of CPD management,
in its oversight role, made a concerted effort to use excess PTO time prior to June 22, 2012, but
was unable to do so due to circumstances beyond their control, and who had a balance of more
than 150 hours in his or her PTO bank as of 11:59 PM on June 22, 2012, shall be allowed to keep
those excess hours in their PTO bank, either to be used prior to the date CCCC operations cease
or to be paid out at that time.
This resolution pertains to full -time CCCC employees in the above - referenced situation
only, and is not intended to set a precedent for any other group of employees under any other set
of circumstances at any other time.
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SPONSORS: Councilors Sharp, Carter and Seidensticker
PASSED by the Common Council of the City of Carmel,
(tHt______, 2012, by a vote of 7 ayes and
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Richard L. Sha • President Pro Tempore
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Diana L. Cordray, IAMC, Clerk- Treasurer
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Carol Schleif
W. Eric S ensticker
Presented by me to the Mayor of the City of Carmel, Indiana this 1-7 day of
2012, at 4:S7 t .M.
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Diana L. Cordray, easurer
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Ap roved by me, Mayor of the City of Carmel, Indiana, this oi3 day of
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Diana L. Cordray, IAMC, Clerk - Treasurer
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Prepared by: Barbara A. Lamb, Director of Human Resources
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