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CITY OF KENAI
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KENA\v~ SKA ORDINANCE NO. 23'75-2009
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA, AMENDING
KMC 23.50.010(C) CHANGING THE RANGE THAT POLICE TRAINEES ARE PAID
WHILE AT THE POLICE ACADEMY IN SITKA FROM A RANGE 2 TO A RANGE 2, STEP
F.
WHEREAS, prior to April 19, 2008, KMC 23.50.010(c) provided that Police Trainees
were paid at a Range 2 while at the Public Safety Academy at Sitka and a Range 13
otherwise; and,
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 2286-2008 increased police pay, including raising the
ordinary Police Trainee pay range from Range 13 to Range 16, but did not increase the
pay of a Police Trainee while at the academy; and,
WHEREAS, the pay range of a Police Trainee while at the academy should be
increased to a Range 2, Step F to track the pay increase a Police Trainee received
under Ordinance No. 2286-2008 while on duty outside of the academy; and,
WHEREAS, the City of Kenai will have two trainees attending the Police Academy
starting on February 22, 2009.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI
that KMC 23.50.010(c), Footnote 1 is amended as follows:
1 For work performed after February 21, 2009, [W]while attending the
Public Safety Academy in Sitka, a police trainee shall be paid at a Range 2,
Step F. Because of a fluctuating and unpredictable training schedule, he or
she shall be considered to work twelve (12) hours per day from Monday
through Saturday and eleven (11) hours on Sunday, or the actual number
of hours worked, whichever is greater. The normal work schedule at the
academy shall be five (5) eight (8) hour shifts from Monday to Friday rather
than four (4) ten (10) hour shifts as stated in KMC 23.50.050(b)(1).
PASSED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY
February, 2009.
O:F KE A~, ALASKA this fourth day of
PAT PORTER, MAYOR
AT~TE° ST:
Corene Hall, Acting City Clerk
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Approved by Finance: ~ ~-~~---
Introduced: January 21, 2009
Adopted: February 4, 2009
Effective: March 4, 2009
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To: Rick Koch, City Manager
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FINANCE DEPARTMENT
210 Fidalgo Avenue, Kenai, Alaska 99611-7794
Telephone: 907-283-7535 ext 221 /FAX: 907-283-3014
From: Terry Eubank, Finance Director _~ ~,'„~,~~
Z)ate: January 13, 2009
Re: Ordinance 2375-2009 Amending KMC 23.50.010(0) changing the range the police
trainees are paid while at the police academy in Sitka from a range 2 to a range 2, step F.
In March of 2008 the Council adopted Ordinance 2286-2008 to address recruitment difficulties
ol'the Police Department The ordinance amended KMC 23.50.010 by increasing the range for
each of the Police Department's officer positions. The ordinarrce did not amend KMC
23.50.010(0) that addresses the pay for police trainees while attending the State's police
academy in Sitka.
Officer trainee's attending the police academy are required to work hundreds of hours of
overtime while in attendance. Per the Fair Labor Standard Act these hours must be paid at a rate
of 1 %2 the normal hourly rate for the employee. KMC 23.50.010(0) was established to reduce
the range of a police trainee during their attendance at the academy to a rate that would provide a
comparable gross pay based upon a guaranteed minimum of 83 hours worked each week while in
attendance. Upon graduation from the academy and return to normal wor]< the trainee would be
returned to their normal range.
Ordinance 2375-2009 will amend KMC 23.50.010(0) paying a police trainee at Range 2, Step h.
Based upon the sections required pay of a minimum of 83 hours per week, Range 2 Step F will
provide gross weeldy earnings of X1,129.65 compared to $1,129.20 for a nonna140 hour week at
Range 16, Step A.