Subject: 20247/UniformAllowance/PublicWorks
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 12:29:10 -0500


                             RESOLUTION NO.   20247 
                  
                  
                   A RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING A REVISED POLICY
                   FOR A SUPPLEMENTAL UNIFORM ALLOWANCE FOR
                   ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES IN THE DEPARTMENT OF
                   PUBLIC WORKS.
                  
                  
                                                    
                  
                  
       	    	 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
       CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, That there be and is hereby established a 

       revised policy for a supplemental uniform allowance for eligible
       employees in the Department of Public Works as follows:
           
                   POLICY FOR SUPPLEMENTAL UNIFORM ALLOWANCE
                           DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
                             (Revised May 31, 1994)
           
           
             1.	 A supplemental uniform allowance shall be paid to
                 eligible employees in the Department of Public
                 Works in the amount of $200.00 to be paid on an
                 annual basis during the first pay period in July of
                 each year.
           
             2.	 Eligible employees hired during a fiscal year shall
                 receive a prorated distribution of the supplemental
                 uniform allowance based upon the number of months
                 left during the fiscal year at the time of
                 employment.
           
             3.	 The term "eligible employees" as used in this
                 policy shall include those employees occupying the
                 employment positions on a list designated by the
                 Administrator of the Department of Public Works.
           
             4.	 Uniforms for which the supplemental uniform
                 allowance shall be used shall consist of shirts,
                 pants, coveralls, rainsuits, steel-toe shoes and
                 leather gloves in styles and colors authorized by
                 the Administrator of the Department of Public Works
                 or his authorized representative.
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             5.	 There shall be no allowance for repair or
                 replacement of any part of the prescribed uniform
                 during the fiscal year, but eligible employees
                 receiving the supplemental uniform allowance shall
                 not be relieved of any duty to wear the prescribed
                 uniform by virtue of loss of, damage to or
                 destruction of any item of the uniform.
           
             6.	 All eligible employees receiving the supplemental
                 uniform allowance shall report to work and perform
                 their work in attire meeting the criteria specified
                 by the Administrator of the Department of Public
                 Works or his duly authorized representative.  Any
                 employee who reports for work in attire not meeting
                 said criteria on any two occasions within one year
                 shall receive a written warning; any employee who
                 reports for work in attire not meeting said
                 criteria on three or more occasions within one year
                 may be suspended without pay for a minimum of one
                 day until he or she reports to work in the
                 prescribed uniform.
           
             7.	 The supplemental uniform allowance may not be used
                 by eligible employees for any purchases or use
                 other than the purchase of prescribed items of the
                 uniform.
      
      
       ADOPTED:	 May 31, 1994
      
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