Except for those positions specifically created by the charter or the Code, the number and classification of employees of the city shall be established by the annual salary ordinance. The minimum wages of employees of the City of Cranston, except for school department employees, and employees of Cranston Public Libraries, shall not be lower than fifteen dollars ($15.00) per hour effective January 1, 2025.
(Prior code § 2-17.1; Ord. 2020-7, § 1, 2/24/2020; Ord. 2024-13, § 1, 5/28/2024)
Retirement allowance for retired city employees. Persons who have served as employees of the city for a period of fifteen (15) years or longer, who have retired from such employment during the period from July 1, 1958, through July 1, 1963, and who have reached the age of seventy (70) years, shall be entitled to receive a monthly retirement allowance upon making application therefor to the city council.
Such retirement allowance shall be at an annual rate which is equal to one-half of such employee's average annual earnings for the last five years of his or her employment by the city less any amounts received as federal social security benefits or any other pension benefits.
Such retirement allowance shall commence only after approval of such application by the city council and shall be payable monthly thereafter for the remainder of such retired employee's life.
Such retirement allowance shall not be paid to any person otherwise entitled thereto while he or she is receiving compensation from the city or any of its agencies, commissions or bureaus, except to the extent that such retirement allowance may exceed such compensation.
Upon approval of an application for a retirement allowance hereunder and annually thereafter, the city council shall appropriate such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions hereof.
(Prior code § 2-17.2)
A. 
General Provisions.
1. 
Payment of an employee's retirement allowance or annuity or other benefit or payments as provided in Chapter 2.80 shall be for honorable service only.
2. 
For purposes of this section, "crime related to his or her public employment" shall mean any of the following:
a. 
The committing, abiding or abetting of an embezzlement of public funds;
b. 
The committing, aiding or abetting of any felonious theft by a public employee from his or her employer;
c. 
Bribery in connection with employment of a public employee; and
d. 
The committing of any felony by a public employee who willfully, and with the intent to defraud, realizes or obtains, or attempts to realize or obtain, a profit, gain, or advantage for himself or herself or for some other person through the use or attempted use of power, rights, privileges, duties, or position of his or her public office or employment.
3. 
For purposes of this section, "public employee" or "employee" shall mean any current or former city elected official, or any appointed official or employee of the city, or of a city board, commission or agency, who is otherwise entitled to receive a retirement allowance or annuity or other benefit or payment of any kind pursuant to Chapter 2.80.
4. 
Revocation or Reduction Authorized. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any retirement allowance or annuity or other benefit or payment of any kind to which an employee is otherwise entitled to under Chapter 2.80 shall be revoked or reduced in accordance with the provisions of this section if such employee is convicted of or pleads guilty or nolo contendere to any crime related to his or her public employment. Any such conviction or plea shall be deemed to be a breach of the employee's contract with his or her employer.
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Hearing—Civil Action. Whenever any employee is convicted of or pleads guilty or nolo contendere to any crime related to his or her public employment, the personnel appeal board shall conduct a meeting, with the employee having the opportunity to be heard, to determine if a recommendation of revocation or reduction of any retirement allowance or annuity or other benefit or payment to which the employee is otherwise entitled to under this chapter is warranted. If the personnel appeal board determines that revocation or reduction of any retirement allowance or annuity or other benefit or payment to which the employee is otherwise entitled to under this chapter is warranted, the personnel appeal board shall initiate a civil action in the superior court for the revocation or reduction of any retirement allowance or annuity or other benefit or payment to which the employee is otherwise entitled to under Chapter 2.80.
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For purposes of this section, "pleads guilty or nolo contendere" shall not include any plea of guilty or nolo contendere which does not result in a conviction by virtue of G.L. 1956 Section 12-10-12 or 12-18-3, as amended.
(Ord. 2009-55, § 1, 10/26/2009)
No employee who has retired from his or her employment with the city and is receiving a retirement pension shall be employed by the city as a full-time employee unless he or she first relinquishes or waives his or her retirement pension for the duration of his or her re-employment.
A re-employed retired employee who has been receiving or is entitled to a retirement pension shall not, under any circumstances, be entitled to qualify and/or join any other municipal pension system.
(Prior code § 2-17.3)
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Any application of the city for funding to the department of housing and urban development shall be submitted to the city council forty-five (45) days prior to its submission to any state or federal agency. The city council shall approve, amend, or disapprove the application.
B. 
The application or any amendments thereto, as well as any official municipal interpretation or comments on the community development plan submitted by the administration relative to specific housing developments proposed in the city, shall be subject to the approval of the city council prior to submission to the department of housing and urban development.
(Prior code § 2-17.4)
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All full-time permanent employees of the city, except elected officials and members of the school, fire and police department who use their motor vehicles in the course of their duties for city business and are not provided with municipal vehicles, shall be entitled to reimbursement by the city per mile for all mileage used on city business for such use, at the rate established at July 1st of each year by the Internal Revenue Service.
(Prior code § 2-17.6; Ord. 06-47 § 1)
A. 
All motor vehicles owned by the city shall be operated for public use only and when not in use, except for those motor vehicles assigned to the mayor, to the chief and assistant chief of the fire department and to the department of police for patrol and emergency use, shall be parked in areas owned and maintained by the city, as designated by the director of public works. The vehicles assigned to the following positions shall be exempt from this municipal vehicle storage requirement.
1. 
Public works director;
2. 
Highway supervisor;
3. 
Inspector of buildings;
4. 
Parks and recreation department director;
5. 
EMS director;
6. 
Fire marshall;
7. 
Members of the fire prevention bureau;
8. 
Hazardous materials officer;
9. 
Superintendent of fire alarm and training/safety officers;
10. 
Public buildings superintendent.
B. 
It should be clear that this exemption does not pertain to the aforementioned employees' access to these vehicles for personal use.
(Prior code § 2-17.9; Ord. 03-9 § 1; Ord. 2009-47, § 1, 8/24/2009; Ord. 2019-34, § 1, 9/23/2019)
No classified employee shall during working hours engage to any extent in any form of partisan politics except that he or she may attend and vote at any party caucus, primary, or election held during working hours. Outside of working hours, a classified employee may attend any partisan rally, club, or gathering and privately express his or her partisan political views but any further partisan political activity on his or her part shall be engaged in only in accordance with the personnel rules. A classified employee violating the provisions of Sections 2.80.080 to 2.80.110, inclusive, or of such rules, shall for a first offense be either demoted or dismissed and for a second offense dismissed. All charges of such violations shall be publicly heard by the personnel appeal board.
(Prior code § 2-58)
No classified employee shall solicit contributions for nor shall any classified employee be solicited by any other classified employee to contribute to any political party or partisan campaign. Every other officer, agent, clerk or employee under the government of the city who may have charge or control in any building, office, or room occupied for any purpose of city government is authorized to prohibit the entry of any person, and he or she shall not permit any person to enter the same, for the purpose of therein making, collecting, receiving, or giving notice of any political assessment, subscription, or contribution, nor shall any person therein give notice of, demand, collect, receive, or pay the assessment, subscription, or contribution contrary to the provisions of this section.
(Prior code § 2-59)
Any person violating any of the provisions of Sections 2.80.080 to 2.80.110 inclusive, or of the rules established in accordance with this chapter, shall be guilty of a violation of the code of the city, and upon conviction thereof in the Cranston Municipal Court shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars ($200.00) or be imprisoned for not more than thirty (30) days or both. Any person holding a position in the classified service so convicted shall be dismissed from service forthwith.
(Prior code § 2-61)
All administrative unit personnel shall be entitled to receive the benefits outlined in the "administrative unit employment benefits" handbook, which is incorporated by reference and made a part hereof. Said handbook shall be placed on file with the city clerk, and will be incorporated into any personal services contracts presently existing, or entered into at a future date. The terms in said handbook shall be controlling. No changes, modification, or alterations of the benefits outlined in the handbook may be made without specific authorization of the city council, either by ordinance, or ratification of an individual personal services contract which attempts to deviate in any way of the terms outlined in the handbook.
(Ord. 03-74 § 1)
The director of personnel shall prepare and submit to the city council amended rules and regulations setting forth the conditions on which not more than ten (10) points on a scale of one hundred (100) of additional credit will be allowed to any person who is a resident or currently an employee of the city of Cranston at the time of application or promotion for employment to the city.
(Ord. 2009-45, § 1, 6/22/2009)
Current employees of the city on the date of passage of this amendment who are serving in positions other than those listed in Charter Section 14.04 and who are not presently in the classified service shall be entered into the classified service in their position without examination if the employee has completed one year of employment in such position. Such employee's time in service count toward their probationary period as required by City Charter Section 14.07.
(Ord. 2009-46, § 1, 6/22/2009)