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The City agrees to incorporate into the Memorandum the benefits provided under Administrative Regulation 2.11, as amended, modified to indicate the following holidays.
Employees, except those on hourly paid status, shall, when possible without disrupting the various municipal services, be allowed the paid holidays listed below:
New Year’s Day – January 1
Martin Luther King’s Birthday – Third Monday in January
President’s Day – Third Monday in February
Cesar Chavez’s Birthday – March 31
Memorial Day – Last Monday in May
Independence Day – July 4
Labor Day – First Monday in September
Veteran’s Day – November 11
Thanksgiving Day – Fourth Thursday in November
Friday after Thanksgiving Day
Eve of the Christmas holiday – Four (4) hours
Christmas Day – December 25
Two vacation days – After completion of six months of full‑time employment added to vacation bank of hours
When a holiday named herein falls on Sunday, it shall be observed on the following Monday, and when a holiday herein falls on a Saturday, it shall be observed on the preceding Friday, except that the Library Division may observe such holidays on Saturday, and in the case of continuous operations and seven day operations, holidays shall be observed only on the calendar days on which they actually fall. This paragraph shall not apply to the Eve of Christmas holiday, which shall only be granted when it falls on the employees’ regular scheduled work day.
A unit member working in a continuous operation, whose regularly scheduled day off falls on a holiday specified above, and who is called in to work a regular shift on such holiday and scheduled day off, shall be compensated as follows: eight (8) hours pay for the holiday plus pay at time and one half (1 1/2) the regular rate for each hour assigned and worked, plus compensatory time credit for each hour assigned and worked to a maximum of eight (8) hours.
B. Vacation accrual, carryover, and separation payout shall be governed by the following table:
| SERVICE
YEARS |
MONTHLY ACCURAL | MAXIMUM CARRYOVER | PAYOUT |
| 0-5 | 8 hours | 192 hours | 240 hours |
| 6-10 | 10 hours | 240 hours | 300 hours |
| 11-15 | 11 hours | 264 hours | 330 hours |
| 16-20 | 13 hours | 312 hours | 390 hours |
| 21 + | 15 hours | 360 hours | 450 hours |
Unit members shall be allowed vacation buy out twice per calendar year, on the last paycheck of November and/or May. The total annual buy out is up to a maximum of eighty (80) hours taken in no more than forty (40) hour increments, after the employee has accumulated a minimum of one hundred twenty (120) hours and has used forty (40) hours of vacation/comp-time during the calendar year.
Unit members may contribute accrued vacation or compensatory time to other employees in accordance with City policy governing contribution of leave for serious illness of an employee or their immediate family member.
To every extent practicable, a transferred unit member will be allowed to maintain his previous vacation schedule.