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City of Paris Council Benefits Subcommittee December 8, 2003 Page 2 there after. Councilman Bell said for city employees other than civil service, they can have an unlimited accrued vacation. Mr. Anderson said that was correct. Councilman Bell asked if that could put the city in a very precarious position if an employee were to retire or leave the employment of the city. Mr. Anderson said if they leave with a large accumulation of vacation time and has less than 10 years with the city, they can only be paid for 20 days of that vacation. If they have 10 years or more they can be paid for 30 days of vacation and if they have more than 30 days they lose it. Mr. Bell asked if a person comes in and advises that they were retiring and they have 4 months remaining vacation and they want to take 4 months of it, and then retire in 4 months what happens. Mr. Anderson said that any vacation leave taken has to be approved by the department head. He said that if it was someone in my department he would not allow them to do that because he could not do without an employee for 4 months. Councilman Bell pointed out that there is nothing in the policy to prevent it. Councilman Bell said if he could accumulate all of the vacation days he wanted, and he accumulated two or three years' worth, then he decides to sell it back, and he is going to sell it back at 75% of the rate of pay he had on September 15 of which year and has had three pay raises. Would you go back to year one and calculate it based on the actual vacation, or does he get to sell it back to the city at the new pay rate. Mr. Anderson advised that it would be sold back at 75% of the pay raise of the previous budget year. Mr. Anderson advised that there is not going to be a case in your illustration where a year that someone has received more than a 25% pay raise. He told Councilman Bell that he had never seen anyone sell it back at a rate higher than what they earned it at because of the discount. Mr. Anderson said that was the purpose of the discount is to off-set that. Councilman Bell asked if it was normal for an industry to have a cap on the amount of vacation that can be accrued and a use it or lose it theory. Mr. Anderson advised said he did not know about industry, but it varies from city to city. Councilman Bell stated that he felt there should be a limit on how much vacation time someone can accrue. He said it does not have to be something that would be accumulated at one and one-half days a month. Mr. Anderson advised that