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Special City Council Meetrng <br />July 27, 2004 <br />Page 2 <br />Councilman Bell explained at the last meeting, they started out with forty-five <br />(45) days, and because of the discussion that it needed to be managed down, <br />it was later reduced to forty (40). He indicated that he had originally asked for <br />the forty (40) day accrual cap with only a thirty (30) day severance pay. <br />Mayor Fendley asked about the sell back. Councilman Guest said that wasn't <br />addressed by the committee on vacation time, only on sick leave. Finance <br />Director Anderson explained that under current policy, only one week of <br />vacation could be sold back at 75%. He continued that when an employee <br />leaves the City of Paris, they can be paid, if they have been there ten (10) years <br />or longer, for up to thirty (30) days of accumulated vacation time at 100%. <br />Councilman Wilson quoted from a Benefits Survey that was given to the <br />Council last years saying the maximum days of vacation accrual was unlimited. <br />Finance Director Anderson agreed that the current Policy did not put a cap on <br />how much could be accrued, but how much an employee could be paid for. <br />Councilman Wilson asked if he had accrued six (6) months vacation time and <br />was going to retire, could he take that six (6) months vacation time as paid <br />vacation time. Finance Director Anderson explained that any vacation time had <br />to be approved by the department head, so it would have to be authorized by <br />the Department Head. <br />Councilman Bell said the purpose of this was so that the accrued vacation <br />would be managed down so that employees coming up on retirement would not <br />take off three days a week for six to eight months to use up their vacation. He <br />reiterated that he thought the recommendation should be forty (40) day accrual <br />max with a thirty (30) day sell back on retirement. He felt the employees should <br />either use it, sell it or lose it. <br />Councilman Wilson felt like it should be uniform for the whole City, because <br />if a department head like one guy more than another, he would let the one take <br />off more and not let the next day. Councilman Wilson also said he could be <br />