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MINUTES OF THE CITY OF PARIS CITY COUNCIL BENEFIT SUBCOMMITTEE DECEMBER 9, 2003 The City of Paris City Council Benefit Subcommittee met in special session, Monday, December 9, 2003, 10:00 A.M. at Paris Junior College, Bobby R. Walters Applied Technology, Building Room 1208, 2400 Clarksville Street, Paris, Texas. Chairman Jay Guest called the meeting to order with Councilman Joe E. McCarthy and Councilman Jim Bell being present. Also present were City Manager Michael E. Malone, City Attorney Larry W. Schenk, and City Clerk Mattie Cunningham. Chairman Guest announced that they had previously gotten to Agenda Item No. 5, discussion and possible recommendations concerning Attendance Holidays and Optional Holidays. Chairman Guest said they were talking about attendance holidays yesterday and the city presently has 10. Mr. Anderson advised that the city has 10 holidays they are not attendance holidays. He said that attendance holiday is defined in the Personnel Policy Book that if an employee does not miss any time during a quarter, and that employee has less than 10 years of service they earn an extra holiday. Mr. Anderson said there are 10 regular holidays and an employee has the potential of having 4 attendance holidays if that employee has been here less than 10 years, and they are not civil service. Councilman Bell said he was assuming that this was implemented to encourage attendance; as opposed to, if they do not attend to come to work, the employees in the real world are fired if they miss work. Mr. Anderson replied if they missed too much the city would also fire them. Chairman Guest asked what is the purpose of that. Melba Harris, Personnel Officer for the City of Paris, said the incentive is, an employee may wake up with a headache, and there are times you can work with a headache, but the incentive is, if the employee can make the day, then for three months that employee will receive another day off. She also pointed out that there is sick and there is sick that you need to be home. Councilman Bell said that if the employee takes a sick day, the employee would not receive an attendance day for that quarter. Mr.