[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Colonial Heights:
Art. I, 4-8-1975 as Ch. 2, Secs. 2-9 and 2-10, of the 1975 Code; Art. II,
9-12-1990 as Ord. No. 90-24. Amendments noted where applicable.]
CHARTER REFERENCES
Personnel — See Ch. 9.
Public safety — See Ch. 11.
Penalty for failure to perform duties — See Sec. 20.20.
[Adopted 4-8-1975 as Ch.
2, Secs. 2-9 and 2-10, of the 1975 Code]
A.
In order to provide for the coverage of eligible officers
and employees of the City under the provisions of Title II of the Federal
Social Security Act, the City shall subscribe to the applicable provisions
of §§ 51.1-111.1 to 51.1-111.8 of the Code of Virginia, and
the plan heretofore submitted to and approved by the state agency pursuant
to § 51.1-111.5 of the Code of Virginia is hereby ratified, confirmed
and continued in full force and effect.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: This plan is on file and available for inspection in
the office of the City Clerk.
B.
The City Council shall, each year, appropriate sufficient
funds to make its required employer contributions to the state agency, and
the Director of Finance shall withhold from the salaries and wages of those
City officers and employees who are so covered by federal social security
to make their required contributions pursuant to the approved plan.
C.
The Director of Finance shall be responsible for the
performance by the City of all duties imposed upon the City and its officers
and employees who are so covered by federal social security under the applicable
provisions of §§ 51.1-111.1 to 51.1-111.8 of the Code of Virginia.
A.
The City Council hereby ratifies, confirms and continues
in full force and effect the resolution heretofore adopted by the Council,[1] which has been approved by the Board of Trustees of the Virginia
Supplemental Retirement System, whereby the City Council elected to have eligible
City officers and employees become members of the Virginia Supplemental Retirement
System, pursuant to the provisions of § 51.1-111.31 of the Code
of Virginia.
[1]
Editor's Note: This resolution is on file and available for inspection
in the office of the City Clerk.
B.
The City Council shall, each year, appropriate sufficient
funds to make its required employer contributions to the Board of Trustees
of the Virginia Supplemental Retirement System. The Council also elects to
exercise its option, under § 51.1-111.46(h) of the Code of Virginia,
to pay an equivalent amount in lieu of all member contributions required of
its employees to said Board of Trustees and shall, each year, appropriate
sufficient funds for that purpose.
[Amended 6-14-1977 by Ord.
No. 77-28]
C.
The Director of Finance shall be responsible for the
performance by the City of all duties imposed upon the City and its member
officers and employees under the applicable provisions of Title 51.1, Chapter
3.2, of the Code of Virginia.
[Added 8-11-1981 by Ord.
No. 81-33; amended 6-12-1984 by Ord.
No. 84-29]
A.
The Director of Finance shall accept an order or assignment
of salaries and wages from any officer or employee of the City government
for the following purposes only:
(1)
Assignments required by or pursuant to federal or state
law or valid contract or agreement entered into by the city.
(2)
Assignments for an officer's or employee's share of the
cost of any program conducted or sponsored by the City for the benefit of
such officers and employees, the cost or a portion of the cost of which is
borne by the city; or to any program of savings, deferred compensation or
insurance made available to City officers or employees on a group basis, upon
a finding of sufficient benefit and interest by a committee of five (5) such
officers or employees appointed by the City Manager for the purpose, for the
general benefit or convenience of such officers and employees.
(3)
Assignments for the purchase of United States savings
bonds.
(4)
Assignments for subscribing to shares of any credit union
approved by Council and for the paying, securing or guaranteeing the payment
of money borrowed from such credit unions.
B.
For the purposes of this section, the term "officers
and employees of the city" shall include only those persons whose salaries
and wages are paid by check or warrant signed by the Director of Finance.
[Added 8-11-1981 by Ord.
No. 81-33]
A.
In furtherance of the public interest through provision
of an opportunity for support of local charitable and eleemosynary groups,
the City Manager shall recommend, annually, and the Council in its discretion
may approve, one (1) charitable fund drive to be conducted among City officers
and employees, which such recommendation and approval shall be based upon
the following standards and such other reasonable standards as Council may
find appropriate. The extent to which such standards shall affect the designation
by Council or whether or not any or all such standards are waived shall be
determined by the Council as it finds appropriate in the protection of the
public interest. Any additional standards used by the City Manager in preparation
of his report and pertinent information concerning organizations requesting
but not receiving recommendation shall be reported to the Council.
(1)
In the protection of the productivity and efficiency
of the operation of City government and of the public interest generally,
preference is to be given to combined fund drives conducted for the benefit
of more than one (1) organization.
(2)
The fund drive shall be conducted on behalf of organizations
of general interest to City officers and employees, all of which shall be
organizations to which the City could contribute lawfully, and all of which
shall provide a social service of a charitable, educational, health, rehabilitative
or character-building nature.
(3)
Any individual organization shall have provided such
service in the City of Colonial Heights or another area jurisdiction continuously
for a period of two (2) years prior to designation by the Council and shall
have had a minimum annual fund balance of one thousand dollars ($1,000.) or
more at the end of the immediate past fiscal year; any combined fund drive
shall consist of organizations at least a majority of which meet such requirements
as to length of local service and assets.
(4)
Only organizations exempt from income taxes under federal
and state law shall be eligible for designation.
(5)
The operations and fiscal management of each designated
organization, or of all organizations within each designated combined fund
drive, shall be subject to oversight by a board of directors or other similar
body, the majority of the membership of which shall consist of residents of
the City or other area jurisdictions. Each organization shall have had during
the immediate past fiscal year, and shall have for the year it or a combined
drive of which it is a part is designated pursuant hereto, an annual audit,
subject to public inspection, of its fiscal management.
B.
The solicitation of City officers or employees conducted
after approval by Council hereunder shall be subject to all reasonable regulations
imposed by the City Manager and all other applicable provisions of law not
in conflict herewith.
C.
For the purposes of this section, the term "area jurisdiction"
shall include all local jurisdictions within the Crater Planning District.
D.
Designation shall be subject to withdrawal prior to or
during the fund drive by the City Manager, subject to appeal to Council, upon
finding of violation of any standards imposed as provided above or upon finding
of material misrepresentation as to compliance with any such standards.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 69- 5, Group sickness insurance,
added 9-30-1976 by Ord. No. 76-35, was repealed 10-9-1990 by Ord. No. 90-29.
[Adopted 9-12-1990 as Ord.
No. 90-24]
The City of Colonial Heights, Virginia, a political subdivision currently participating in the Virginia Retirement System under provisions of Title 51.1, Chapter 1, Article 5, of the Code of Virginia, as amended, acting by and through its Council, does hereby elect to have such employees of the City who are employed in positions as full-time salaried firemen, and whose tenure is not restricted as to temporary or provisional appointment, to become eligible, effective August 1, 1990, to be provided benefits in the Virginia Retirement System equivalent to those provided for state police officers of the Department of State Police, as set out in § 51.1-138 of the Code of Virginia, in lieu of the benefits that would otherwise be provided as such provisions have been amended from time to time, and the City agrees to pay its cost for participation of such employees becoming covered thereunder.
The City Manager and the City Clerk shall be and they are hereby authorized
and directed in the name of the City to execute any contract required hereby.
In execution of any contract which may be required, the Seal of the City shall
be affixed and attested by the Clerk, and said officers of the City shall
be and they are hereby authorized and directed to do any thing or things incident
and necessary in the lawful conclusion of this matter.
It shall be and is hereby authorized and directed that such sums as
are due to be paid by the City and its employees for this purpose
shall be paid over from time to time to the Treasurer of Virginia.
