[R.O. 2011 § 130.320; R.O. 2009
§ 36.65; CC 1981 § 2-356; Ord. No. 83-23, 3-30-1983; Ord. No. 07-162, 6-11-2007]
A.
All benefits included within Sections 130.330, 130.340, 130.350(A) and 130.360(A) shall be available to all permanent full-time City employees, except where supplemented with or modified by a memorandum of understanding/work resolution between a particular group of employees and representation of a bargaining unit.
B.
The Mayor may approve certain benefits
for permanent part-time employees, provided such benefits do not meet
or exceed those available to permanent full-time employees.
[R.O. 2011 § 130.330; R.O. 2009
§ 36.66; CC 1981 § 2-357; Ord. No. 83-23, 3-30-1983; Ord. No. 91-257, 12-18-1991; Ord. No. 07-162, 6-11-2007]
A.
Vacation benefits shall begin accruing
from the date of full-time employment. Every full-time employee of
the City shall receive at least eighty (80) hours of paid vacation
[fire shift personnel shall receive one hundred forty-four (144) hours
or six (6) twenty-four (24) hour work shifts] after each full and
continuous year of service.
B.
Vacation leave may be taken following accumulation,
at a time approved by the department director, so as not to interfere
with scheduled activities.
C.
Employees may not carry more than one (1)
week of vacation into each subsequent year, except when recommended
by the department director and approved by the Mayor.
[R.O. 2011 § 130.335; Ord. No. 11-050 § 1, 3-30-2011]
A.
During each calendar year, the Director
of Finance, Assistant Director of Finance, Accounting Manager and
any employee occupying a job classification designated by Administration,
whose job duties include the handling of money or access to the City
financial accounting system, shall each take at least five (5) consecutive
workdays as vacation or out of office leave.
B.
During the vacation or out of office leave mandated in Subsection (A), the employee on leave shall not have access to the City financial accounting system during the leave.
C.
Mandatory vacation leave shall not apply
to part-time seasonal employees.
D.
Mandatory leave may consist of vacation
days, time out of office attending professional conferences, or time
allowed by the Director of Administration.
[R.O. 2011 § 130.340; R.O. 2009
§ 36.67; CC 1981 § § 2-358 — 2-359; Ord. No. 83-23, 3-30-1983]
A.
Observance Of Holidays.
[Ord. No. 15-289 § 1, 12-15-2015; Ord. No. 16-011 § 1, 1-12-2016]
1.
The following holidays shall be considered
part of the full-time employee's normal workweek, excluding police,
fire and communications shift personnel, and shall be excused without
loss of pay on the following designated holidays:
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New Year's Day
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January 1
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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Third Monday in January
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Presidents Day
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Third Monday in February
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Memorial Day
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Last Monday in May
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Independence Day
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July 4
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Labor Day
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First Monday in September
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Veterans Day
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November 11
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Thanksgiving Day
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Fourth Thursday in November
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Friday following Thanksgiving
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Fourth Friday in November
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Christmas Eve Day
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December 24
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Christmas Day
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December 25
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2.
Employees absent without authorized
leave on the work shift before or the work shift following a holiday
shall not receive compensation for said holiday.
3.
Time-off holiday benefit for each
of the aforementioned holidays shall be constructed by the department
head in each police and communications shift employee's schedule and
shall be excused without loss of pay.
B.
Other Types Of Leaves. Provisions for all
other types of leaves shall be included in the personnel procedures
manual.
[R.O. 2011 § 130.350; R.O. 2009
§ 36.68; CC 1981 § § 2-360, 2-377 —
2-380; Ord. No. 76-72, 9-29-1976; Ord.
No. 83-23, 3-30-1983; Ord. No. 02-128, 5-28-2002]
A.
Social Security.
1.
In addition to the rates of compensation
provided for employees and officials, the City shall extend to all
eligible employees and officials of the City, who are not excluded
by law or by this Chapter and employed in connection with a governmental
or propriety function of the City, the benefits of the system of Federal
Old Age and Survivors' Insurance as authorized by the Social Security
Act, Amendments of 1950 and by Section 105.300 et seq., RSMo., as
the same may now and hereafter be in effect.
2.
Employee contributions shall be deducted
from the wages of all employees and officials of the City, with the
City providing a matching and equal contribution which shall be deposited
into the appropriate funds created by Section 105.300 et seq., RSMo.
B.
Extended To Certain City Employees And
Officers. It is hereby declared to be the policy and purpose of the
City to extend to all eligible employees and officials of the City,
who are not excluded by law or by this Section and whenever employed
in connection with a governmental or proprietary function of the City,
the benefits of the system of Federal Old-Age and Survivors' Insurance
as authorized by the Social Security Act, Amendments of 1950 and by
Section 105.300 et seq., RSMo., as the same may now and hereafter
be in effect.
C.
Deductions From Wages. Commencing on the
first day of the month following the date of the approval of the plan
and agreement of this City by the Division of Budget and Comptroller
of the State as the State agency, there shall be deducted from the
wages of all employees and officials of the City, to whom the benefits
of the system of Federal Old-Age and Survivors' Insurance are extended
by virtue of the plan and agreement hereinbefore provided for, the
amount of each of the employees' and officials' contributions, as
determined by the applicable State and Federal laws and by such plan
and agreement, the aggregate amount of the deductions to be paid into
the contributions fund created by Section 105.300 et seq., RSMo.;
provided, that from the first payment of wages made to each of the
employees and officials after the benefits of the system have been
extended to such employees and officials, there shall be deducted
a sum equal to the amount which would have been due and payable from
each of the employees and officials had such extension of benefits
been provided and effective on the first day of January, 1951.
D.
Contributions By City. Commencing on the
first day of the month following the date of the approval of the plan
and agreement of this City by the Division of Budget and Comptroller
of the State as the State agency, there is hereby authorized to be
appropriated from the General Fund, Public Park Maintenance Fund,
Public Library Fund and the Waterworks General Fund of the City and
there is and shall be appropriated the sum of money necessary to pay
the contributions of the City which shall be due and payable by virtue
of the extension of the benefits of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors'
Insurance System to the eligible employees and officials of the City,
such sum of money to be paid into the contributions fund created by
Section 105.300 et seq., RSMo.; provided that in making the first
payment to such contributions fund, after the benefits of the system
have been extended to such employees and officials, such first payment
shall include a sum equal to the amount which would have been due
and payable had such extension of benefits been provided and effective
on January 1, 1951. The fund from which such appropriation is made,
will, at all times, be sufficient to pay the contributions of the
City directed by this Section to be paid to such contributions fund.
E.
Administration Of Plan. The City, from
and after the approval of the plan and agreement of this City by the
State agency as referred to in the preceding Sections, shall fully
comply with and shall keep such records, make such reports and provide
such methods of administration of such plan and agreement as may be
required by all applicable State and Federal laws, rules and regulations
now and hereafter in effect with respect to the extension of the benefits
of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors' Insurance System to the employees
and officials of this City. For the purpose of administering such
plan and agreement, the Director of Human Resources shall be the official
who shall make all required reports, keep all records and be responsible
for the administration of such plan and agreement on behalf of this
City; and any and all notices and communications from such State agency
to this City with respect to such plan and agreement shall be addressed
to the Personnel Director.
[R.O. 2011 § 130.360; R.O. 2009
§ 36.69; CC 1981 § § 2-361, 2-368; Ord. No. 83-23, 3-30-1983; Ord. No. 86-2, 1-7-1986]
A.
Local Government Employees Retirement System.
The City shall extend to all eligible full-time employees and eligible
officials of the City, who are not excluded by law or by this Chapter
and employed by the City, participation and benefits of the Missouri
Local Government Employees Retirement System as established and authorized
by Sections 70.600 through 70.755, RSMo., and Sections 105.660 through
105.685, RSMo., as the same may now and hereafter be in effect.
B.
City Employees Covered By Local Government
Employees' Retirement System — Deductions. The City is a political
Subdivision, as defined in Sections 70.550 through 70.660, RSMo.,
and hereby elects to have covered by the Missouri Local Government
Employees Retirement System all its eligible employees in the following
classes:
[R.O. 2011 § 130.365; Ord. No. 20-001, 1-7-2020]
A.
Plan Established. A retiree medical, dental
and vision benefit plan for employees who retire from full-time employment
is hereby established, and the plan sets forth eligibility requirements
and the terms and conditions under which the City offers a benefit
for or access to medical, dental and vision benefits for retired employees.
B.
Eligibility Requirements. The plan will
pay a portion of an employee's continued medical coverage and will
provide access to the City's dental and vision plans when the employee
meets all three (3) of the following requirements:
1.
Is at least fifty (50) years of age;
2.
Is an employee in the classified
service who achieves a minimum of twenty (20) years of full-time service
or fifteen (15) years of full-time service in the event of a qualified
disability as defined under the Local and Government Employees Retirement
System (LAGERS) or is an employee in the unclassified service on or
after February 1, 2020, and who achieves a minimum of five (5) years
of full-time service; and
3.
Retires from full-time City employment
under the Local and Government Employees Retirement System (LAGERS).
A person eligible to receive benefits
under this Subsection shall be known as a "covered employee."
C.
Benefit Levels For Covered Employees.
1.
Base Medical Plan And Buy-Up Medical
Plans; Pre-Medicare Eligibility. This benefit is provided pursuant
to the City's base and voluntary buy-up medical plans and is provided
until the covered employee is Medicare eligible. A covered employee
shall be eligible for a monthly retiree medical benefit based upon
the employee's retirement date as follows:
a.
For covered employees retiring January
31, 2012, or before, the City will pay eighty percent (80%) of the
retiree premium, and the employee shall pay twenty percent (20%) of
the retiree premium. A covered employee's spouse shall be eligible
for a monthly retiree medical benefit equal to sixty percent (60%)
of the retiree premium. The covered employee's spouse is responsible
for payment of forty percent (40%) of the retiree premium. A covered
employee or spouse may purchase either the base plan or voluntary
buy-up plan. Upon becoming Medicare eligible, a covered employee shall
no longer be eligible to access coverage under the City's plans. If
the covered employee's spouse is covered under the base medical plan
before the employee is Medicare eligible, the City shall continue
to contribute forty percent (40%) toward the cost of spousal coverage
until the spouse is Medicare eligible. If the covered employee's spouse
is covered under the voluntary buy-up medical plan before the employee
is Medicare eligible, the covered employee will be eligible to continue
to purchase coverage for the spouse at an employee cost equal to the
product of one and five tenths (1.5) multiplied by the City's current
monthly COBRA rate for spouses. Upon the spouse becoming Medicare
eligible, the City shall no longer contribute toward the cost of spousal
coverage. The retiree premium shall be equal to the City's current
rates.
b.
Covered Employees Retiring After
January 31, 2012, And Before January 1, 2021.
(1)
For covered employees
retiring after January 31, 2012, and before January 1, 2021, the City
will provide a monthly retiree medical benefit (hereinafter, the "monthly
benefit") based on the covered employee's years of service as set
forth below:
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Years of Service
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Monthly Benefit
(covered employee)
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Monthly Benefit
(spouse)
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20
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$400
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$230
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22
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$420
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$230
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24
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$440
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$230
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26
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$460
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$230
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28
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$480
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$230
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30+
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$500
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$230
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(2)
A covered employee or
spouse may purchase the base medical plan only. Upon becoming Medicare
eligible, a covered employee shall no longer be eligible to access
coverage under the City base plan. If the covered employee's spouse
is covered under the base plan before the employee is Medicare eligible,
the City shall continue to contribute two hundred dollars ($200.00)
monthly toward the cost of spousal coverage until the spouse is Medicare
eligible. Upon the spouse becoming Medicare eligible, the City shall
no longer contribute toward the cost of spousal coverage. The retiree
premium shall be equal to the City's current rates.
c.
For covered employees retiring January
1, 2021, or thereafter, the City will pay sixty-five percent (65%)
of the retiree premium, and the employee shall pay thirty-five percent
(35%) of the retiree premium. A covered employee's spouse shall be
eligible for a monthly retiree medical benefit equal to thirty percent
(30%) of the retiree premium. The covered employee's spouse is responsible
for payment of seventy percent (70%) of the retiree premium. A covered
employee or spouse may purchase the base medical plan only. Upon becoming
Medicare eligible, a covered employee shall no longer be eligible
to access coverage under the City base medical plan. If the covered
employee's spouse is covered under the base medical plan before the
employee is Medicare eligible, the City shall continue to contribute
two hundred dollars ($200.00) monthly toward the cost of spousal coverage
until the spouse is Medicare eligible. Upon the spouse becoming Medicare
eligible, the City shall no longer contribute toward the cost of spousal
coverage. The retiree premium shall be equal to the City's current
rates.
2.
Medicare Supplement. The City shall
pay covered employees up to one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125.00)
per month to purchase a Medicare supplement. The covered employee
is required to provide proof of cost and payment of the Medicare supplement.
3.
Dental And Vision Plans. Covered
employees and spouses may elect to access the City's group dental
and vision plans. The City shall not contribute toward the cost to
the covered employee for access to the base or buy-up dental plan
or the vision plan.
D.
Operating Rules, Limitations And Exclusions.
1.
The operating rules, limitations
and exclusions set forth herein shall apply to all covered employees
unless an exception is established herein.
a.
The covered employee is responsible
for payment of the non-City-paid monthly portion of the medical coverage
cost and the cost of the dental and vision plans. All coverage ceases
if the covered employee or spouse is thirty (30) days delinquent in
payment to the City.
b.
In the event of the death of a covered
employee, the City shall maintain coverage for the surviving spouse
if the surviving spouse was eligible for and elected coverage under
the benefit plan in place at the time the covered employee retired
until the surviving spouse:
2.
In the case of a covered employee,
City responsibility to contribute to the cost of coverage for the
spouse ends upon the occurrence of any of the events set forth in
this paragraph.
3.
Upon divorce, spousal coverage terminates
subject to COBRA requirements.
4.
Spousal coverage or access to coverage
is available to only those spouses that were married to a covered
employee at least five (5) years before the date of retirement. Covered
employees must elect spousal coverage prior to the employee's retirement
date. Failure to enroll a spouse on a plan will preclude the covered
employee's spouse from accessing the plan at a later date.
5.
If, upon retirement, a covered employee does not select coverage under the City plan, then the covered employee and spouse, where the prerequisites to continued spousal coverage stated in Subsection (D)(4) above have been met, may later select coverage under the benefit level for which the retiree qualified on the date of election of coverage.
6.
If, upon retirement, a covered employee
selects coverage under the City medical plan, then obtains employment
that offers medical insurance through another plan, the covered employee
and spouse may elect coverage under the new employer's medical plan.
The covered employee and spouse shall continue to be covered by the
City's plan, but the City's plan shall become secondary to the new
employer's plan which shall be primary.
7.
In the event that both spouses are
employed by the City and one (1) spouse retires, the remaining employed
spouse shall carry the retired spouse on the City's medical insurance
plan. When both spouses have retired, each spouse shall be treated
separately to determine eligibility for benefits.
8.
Dependent children shall not be provided
medical, dental or vision coverage, except dependent children shall
be eligible for COBRA continuation coverage on the date the covered
employee retires.
9.
In the event a covered employee is
domiciled outside of the medical plan coverage area, the City shall
provide the covered employee with an amount equal to the monthly benefit
for covered employees domiciled within the medical plan coverage area.
10.
Payment by ACH debit is required
of all covered employees and spouses once this method is implemented
by the City.
[R.O. 2011 § 130.370; R.O. 2009
§ 36.70; CC 1981 § § 2-314 — 2-318; Ord. No. 3535, 4-24-1968; Ord. No. 3846, 7-7-1971; Ord. No. 78-40, 6-28-1978]
A.
Policy And Purpose. It is declared to be
the policy and purpose of the City to provide, maintain and pay the
premiums on a group hospitalization, major medical, accident and sickness
insurance plan in which each regular employee of the City shall be,
and in which plan an employee's dependents may also be, enrolled as
members by contract or contracts to be entered into in behalf of the
City by the Mayor with such companies as are recommended by the City
Council.
B.
Additional Compensation Generally. In addition
to the rates of compensation provided for each regular employee by
ordinance or resolution, such ordinances and resolutions are amended
to provide as additional compensation for each regular employee and
dependents the total cost for providing and maintaining group hospitalization,
major medical, accident and sickness insurance plan, which compensation
is to be used to defray the cost of such group insurance plan for
each regular employee of the City.
C.
Source — How Treated.
1.
There is authorized to be appropriated
from the General Fund, Public Park Maintenance Fund, Public Library
Fund, Waterworks Maintenance and Operation Fund and the Sanitary Sewer
Maintenance and Operation Fund of the City and there is and shall
be appropriated, the sum not to exceed the total cost for providing
and maintaining each regular employee and dependents in the group
hospitalization, major medical, life, accident and sickness insurance
plan.
2.
The amount so paid to each employee and dependents shall not be considered as taxable income to such employee and shall not be deemed part of his/her compensation for tax reporting purposes, although for the purposes of this Subsection (C)(2) such premiums shall be considered partial compensation for such employee's services to the City.
D.
Full-Time Elected And Appointed Employees. All full-time elected and appointed employees of the City shall, and dependents of regular employees of the City may, receive additional compensation, which compensation shall be used to pay the cost of the group hospitalization, major medical, life, accident and sickness insurance plan. Until the expiration of their new term of office, each full-time elected or appointed employee of the City shall receive additional compensation as provided in Subsection (B) of this Section, which shall be used to defray the total cost of the group insurance plan.
E.
Life Insurance. In addition to the rates
of compensation provided for each regular employee by ordinance or
resolution, such ordinances and resolutions are amended to provide
additional compensation for each regular employee in an amount not
to exceed the total employee cost, excluding employee's dependents,
for providing and maintaining the life insurance plan, which compensation
is to be used to defray the cost of such group insurance plan for
each regular employee of the City.
[R.O. 2011 § 130.375; Ord. No. 13-225 § 1, 11-19-2013; Ord. No. 14-067 § 1, 4-1-2014; Ord. No. 14-092 § 1, 5-6-2014; Ord. No. 16-146 § 1, 7-19-2016; Ord. No. 19-259, 12-3-2019]
A.
All full-time employees of the City meeting
the eligibility requirements as set forth in this Section shall be
eligible to participate in the retirement incentive program as set
forth herein (the "Program").
1.
Eligibility. As of December 31, 2019,
all full-time employees who are sixty (60) years of age or older,
or whose years of service in the Local Government Employees Retirement
System plus age is equal to or greater than seventy-eight (78) years
are eligible to participate in the Program.
2.
Participation Date. All eligible
employees who desire to participate in the Program shall provide the
City with a declaration of irrevocable intent to retire by delivery
of a fully executed retirement incentive program election and waiver
of claims form or equivalent to the Human Resources Department by
no later than 5:00 P.M. local time on January 31, 2020.
3.
Retirement Date. All employees who
elect to participate in the Program must retire from City employment
no later than December 31, 2020, with the City having the authority
to determine the last day of employment for each employee. No employee
shall be eligible to retire before April 1, 2020.
4.
Retirement Incentive Benefits. Each
participating employee shall receive the three (3) retirement incentive
benefits as set forth below:
a.
As of December 31, 2019, each classified
service employee with at least seventeen (17) years of full-time City
employment ("service") but less than twenty (20) years of service
shall receive up to three (3) additional years of service credit in
order to attain not more than twenty (20) years of service toward
the Retiree Health Insurance Program established by Ordinance No.
11-258, or successor ordinance ("Retiree Health Program"). Each full-time
unclassified service employee with at least five (5) years of service
shall be eligible to participate in the Retiree Health Program at
the twenty (20) years of service level.
b.
At each employee's election, the
employee shall receive a one-time lump sum payment equal to fifteen
percent (15%) of the employee's base salary as of January 1, 2020,
which shall be payable in the last month of employment; or four (4)
payments paid in the two (2) consecutive months immediately preceding
the employee's retirement date with each payment equal to three and
three-quarters percent (3.75%) of the employee's base salary as of
January 1, 2020; and
c.
At each employee's election, the
employee shall receive:
(1)
A one-time lump sum
payment equal to the employee's accrued and unused vacation leave
and the employee's sick leave buyout pursuant to Personnel Manual
Rule 20.2 which shall be payable in the last month of employment;
(2)
The lump sum payment
stated in Subsection (D)(3)(a) divided into four (4) equal payments,
and the four (4) payments shall be paid in the two (2) consecutive
months immediately preceding the employee's retirement date; or
(3)
The payout of the employee's
accrued and unused vacation leave and the employee's sick leave buyout
pursuant to Personnel Manual Rule 20.2 as a service continuation pursuant
to Personnel Manual Rule 11.9(d).
