COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR ORDINANCE NO. 120824
Amending Article VIII of the
Administrative Code of Kansas City, Missouri, relating to the Classification
and Compensation Plan, by repealing Section 2-1104, Special Leave, and enacting
in lieu thereof a new Section 2-1104 which changes the Educational Initiative
Leave program to the Community Partnership Initiative.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF
KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That
Article VIII of the Administrative Code of Kansas City, Missouri, relating to
the Classification and Compensation Plan, is hereby amended by repealing
Section 2-1104 and enacting in lieu thereof one new section of like number, to
read as follows:
Sec.
2-1104. Special
leave
(a) Jury
duty. An employee may receive special leave with pay when he or she
is required to serve on a jury and the hours of jury duty conflict with the
hours of his or her city work. Such employees may keep the County or State jury
fee; however, employees must convey his or her Federal jury fee to the City
through his or her department head. In case the employee serves on a jury
during his or her nonworking hours or days, the employee shall be permitted to
keep the jury fee. However, the employee must inform his or her supervisor of
his or her jury service. Jury leave for all regular employees allocated to classes
covered by a memorandum of understanding shall be governed by the appropriate
memorandum of understanding.
(b) Training
courses. Special leave with pay may also be granted by a department
head, with the approval of the director of human resources, for the purpose of
allowing a regular employee to engage in official training courses or to
participate in other official activities.
(c) Sabbatical
leave for judges of municipal court. Upon recommendation for approval
by the presiding judge and approval by the city manager, judges of the
municipal court shall be granted a sabbatical leave of up to six months for
purposes of full-time study or teaching directly related to the profession of
law. No judge shall be eligible for such leave unless he or she has served at
least three years. No judge shall be granted such leave more than once during
any five-year period. Not more than one judge per fiscal year shall take
sabbatical leave. During any such leave a judge shall continue to be paid by
the city at the rate of one-half the regular salary and shall continue to be
eligible for participation in the city health and life insurance programs,
pension program and other employment benefits.
(d) Community Partnership Initiative.
Each fiscal year, any regular employee may be allowed a maximum of eight hours
paid leave to volunteer with area schools, including those of their children,
or to volunteer with one of the City’s approved Combined Charity organizations.
The employee must timely request this leave and leave shall be granted only
when it will not cause undue or unnecessary imbalances in staffing levels.
Employees not participating in activities for which this leave was granted to
them shall have this paid leave time changed to absences without leave and
appropriate disciplinary action will be taken. The department of human
resources will monitor the use of the community partnership initiative and may
promulgate additional requirements in its rules and regulations.
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Approved as to form and legality:
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Saskia Jacobse
Assistant City Attorney