20-7917 Amending and Restating Section 3 of Resolution 20-7825 addressing COVID-19 Paid LeaveRESOLUTION NUMBER 20-7917
A RESOLUTION AMENDING AND RESTATING SECTION 3 OF RESOLUTION
qJMBER 20-7825 ADDRESSING COVID-19 PAID LEAVE IN RESPONSE TO THE
�OVID-19 PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY AND RATIFYING ALL OTHER
'ROVISIONS OF RESOLUTION NUMBER 20-7825.
WHEREAS:
A. On March 30, 2020 the Governing Body adopted Resolution No. 20-7825 addressing
personnel measures in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency, including authorization
for the City Manager to grant full-time employees 80 hours (or the equivalent for employees working
other than a 40 -hour -a -week schedule) of additional paid leave ("COVID-19 Paid Leave") for use in
relation to COVID-19 related absences, commencing effective retroactively to March 16, 2020 and
ending December 31, 2020, without carryover and without cash value upon separation.
B. At the time of approval of COVID-19 Paid Leave the timeline of the pandemic impacts
were uncertain and it was noted that the COVID-19 Paid Leave end date may need to be revisited.
C. As of November 8, 2020, over fifty percent (50%) of City employees had all of their
COVID-19 Paid Leave available; just over thirty percent (30%) had exhausted all of it.
D. The pandemic and public health emergency presented by COVID-19 has resulted in
multiple impacts upon City employees relating to both their work duties and management of their
private lives; isolations due to positive test results and quarantines pending test results, along with
quarantines due to direct contacts or exposures, have contributed to a recent increase in usage of
COVID-19 Paid Leave.
E. Considering the ongoing status of the pandemic and the unpredictable timing of
continuing impacts on City employees, fairness among City employees warrants an extension of the
time during which COVID-19 Paid Leave is authorized and may be used.
BE IT RESOLVED, by the Governing Body of the City of Salina, Kansas:
Section t Section 3 of Resolution No. 20-7825 is amended and restated to read as follows:
Section 3. The City Manager is authorized to grant full-time employees 80 hours (or
the equivalent for employees working other than a 40 -hour -a -week schedule) of additional
paid leave ("COVID-19 Paid Leave") for use in relation to COVID-19 related absences,
commencing effective retroactively to March 16, 2020 and ending June 15, 2021, without
carryover and without cash value upon separation. Utilization of COVID-19 Paid Leave shall
be administered by the City Manager in a manner that enables (a) use of COVID-19 Paid
Leave for absences determined by the City Manager to be COVID-19 related absences, (b)
lawful utilization of Emergency Paid Sick Leave and Emergency FMLA Leave, when
applicable, (c) utilization of COVID-19 Paid Leave in concert with Vacation Leave, Sick
Leave, Emergency Leave, and Personal Leave, as determined by the City Manager, and (d)
enhancement of the potential for preservation of the employee's base rate of compensation
due to COVID-19 related orders; restrictions; or modified work schedules, working conditions
and/or job assignments that prevent an employee from otherwise performing the employee's
regular duties as regularly scheduled.
0 Section 2. Except as Section 3 of Resolution No. 20-7825 is amended by this resolution, all
other provisions of Resolution No. 20-7825 are ratified.
Section 3. This resolution shall be in full force and effect from and after its adoption.
Adopted by the Board of Commissioners and signed by the Mayor this 7I' day of December
2020.
Michael L. Hop , Mayor
(SEAL)
ATTEST:
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Shandi Wicks, CMC, City Clerk