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(An Ordinance establishing salaries and providing for certain benefits for certain
employees of the City of Canton, Illinois for the fiscal year commencing May, 1976.)
Whereas, it is thought by the corporate authorities of the ' �ity of Canton,
Illinois that an Ordinance setting forth not only rates of pay for certain employees
of said City but which also outlines and defines certain other benefits for such
employees and which, as well, enunciates the policy and outlook of said City with
respect to such employees would be of benefit to all concerned; and,
Whereas, further, it is the intent of said corporate authorities, hereby promul-
gated, that there shall be dignity and reasonable stability in relation and attitude
towards all employees of said City,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CANTON, AS
FOLLOWS:
Section 1. That this Ordinance may be referred to as the "Employment Ordinance"
of the City of Canton, Illinois.
Section 2. That the following words or phrases, as used herein, shall have the
following meanings, to-wit:
a. "Employer" shall mean the City of Canton, Illinois.
b. "Employee" shall mean a person, other than one who is appointed to a pos-
ition with the City, other than an elected off icial, and other than one who is a
department heard, who does work for or renders services to the employer and who is
paid therefor at weekly intervals.
c. "Department Head" shall mean either the Fire Chief, the Police Chief, the
Superintendent of the City Water Works, the Superintendent of the Waste Water Treatment
Plant, the Superintendent of Streets and Alleys, or the Plumbing Inspector, as the con-
text requires and shall also have reference to several or all of them when used in the
plural, as the context requires.
d. "Full Time Employee" shall mean and have reference to an employee of the
employer who regularly works a minimum of 40 hours per week in a particular work
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category established by the employer and which has subsisted as such a work category
utilizing the services of an employee for a minimum of 40 hours per week for each
week of the preceding fiscal year of the employer and wherein the need for continuous
like services is anticipated in the foreseeable future.
e. "Part-time Employee" shall mean and have reference to an employee of the
employer who regularly works a minimum of 34 hours (but not as many as 40 hours) per
week in a particular work category established by the employer and which has subsisted
as such a work category utilizing the services of an employee for a minimum of 34 hours
(but not as many as 40 hours) per week for each week of the preceding fiscal year of
the employer and wherein the need for continuous like services is anticipated in the
foreseeable future.
f. "Temporary Employee" shall mean an employee whose services in any work
category established by the employer are expected to be of short duration and wherein
the need therefor is casual or intermittent.
g. "Appointed Positions", "Appointed Employee", or variations thereof, shall
mean and have reference to a person employed by the City who is appointed to his posit-
ion by the Mayor with concurrence of the City Council.
h. "Full-time Appointed Employee" shall mean and have reference to an appointed
employee who regularly works 40 hours per week.
i. "Seniority" or variations thereof shall have reference to the continuous
service of a full time employee within the Department of his employment unless otherwise
specifically defined.
j. "Service" or variations thereof shall have reference to the continuous
service of a full time employee, whether within the Department of his current employ-
ment or not, unless otherwise specifically defined.
k. "Probation Period" or variations thereof shall mean and have reference to
that 6-month period of employment immediately following the initial employment of any
employee of the employer excepting of temporary employees or employees who are members
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of either the Fire or Police Department of the City; with respect to any employee
who is a member of either the Fire or Police Department of the City (and who is under
the �urisdiction of the Fire and Police Commission of the City) they shall mean and
have reference to that one-year period of employment immediately following the initial
employment of such employee as a member of either of these Departments (as a Fireman
or Policeman, as the case may be.) Any applicable probation period shall have, as its
incident. ana shall be considered a period of test or trial for the employee in his
relations to his work and to his employer during which time such employee may be dis-
charged by the employer without stated reason or cause.
1. "Regular Pay" or variations thereof shall mean the basic weekly salary
plus all money additives thereto which shall be applicable to any full time employee;
or, if the context requires, it shall mean the basic weekly salary of a Department Head
or the weekly pay provided for a particular appointive position.
Section 3. Full time employees
a. The following provisions are applicable to all full time employees: A
basic weekly salary, based on 40 hours actually worked, shall be paid to each full time
employee in the amount of $218.12 per week. The sum of $2.00 per week shall be added
to the basic weekly salary of each such employee commencing with the first 40 hours
worked by such an employee following completion of any applicable period of probation
for service within the department of his employment. A further sum of $2.00 per week
shall be added to the basic weekly salary of such an employee commencing with the first
40 hours worked bq such employee following completion of four year's service within the
department.
b. The following provisions shall be applicable to particularized full time
employees and in addition to the provisions of the preceding paragraph:
I. Police Department:
A. Addition To Basic Weekly Salary: To the basic weekly salary of
the senior patrolman (other than the Sergeant in charge) on each shift shall be added
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and paid the further weekly sum of $6.00. To the basic weekly salary of each Police
Sergeant shall be added and paid the further weekly sum of $24.06. To the basic weekly
weekly salary of each full time employee who is a member of the Police Department and
sub�ect to the rules and regulations of the Fire and Police Commission of this City
shall be added and paid the further weekly sum of $5.00.
B. Clothing Allowance: Each Police Off icer, including the Police
Chief and Traffic Control Off ice, shall be allowed and paid a Clothing Allowance in the
yearly amount of $225.00. This amount shall be paid in advance at the commencement of
the fiscal year of the City or as near thereto as practicable.
II. Fire Department:
A. Addition To Basic Weekly Salary: To the basic weekly salary of
each Fire Truck Driver (each of whom is to be the senior employee on any particular
shift) shall be added and paid the further weekly sum of $4.00. To the basic weekly
salary of each Assistant Fire Chief shall be added and paid the further weekly sum of
$24.06. To the basic weekly salary of each full time employee who is a member of the
Fire Department and sub�ect to the rules and regulations of the Fire and Police
Commission of this City shall be added and paid the further weekly sum of $5.00. To
the basic weekly salary of each Lieutenant who is regularly stationed at any sub-fire
station of this City shall be added and paid the further weekly sum of $14.53. To the
basic weekly salary of each Fire Truck Driver (each of whom is to be the senior employee
on any particular shift) who is regularly stationed at any sub-fire station of this
City shall be added and paid the further weekly sum of $4.00.
B. Clothing Allowance: Each Fireman, including the Fire Chief, shall
be allowed and paid a Clothing Allowance in the yearly amount of $155.00. This amount
shall be paid in advance at the commencement of the fiscal year of the City or as near
thereto as practicable.
III. Assistant To Department Heads: Department Heads, excepting of the
Fire and Police Departments and the Plumbing Inspector, may designate a full-time
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employee as an Assistant. Such an Assistant, in addition to his basic weekly salary,
shall receive and be paid an additional $5.00 per week, provided, however, in the event
the Department Head is unavailable and off duty for a continuous period of five calendar
days, such Assistant, upon certification by the Department Head, shall thereafter and
during the subsequent absence of the Department Head, be paid the salary of the
Department Head and in lieu of the salary and money benefits he otherwise would have
been paid as hereinabove provided.
Section 4. Part-time Employees: The following provisions are applicable to all
part-time employees: A weekly salary, from time to time based on the total number of
hours actually worked in a particular week, shall be computed and paid at the rate of
$5.53 per hour to each part-time employee. For the purposes of computing vacation pay,
holiday pay and sick pay the "regular pay" of a part-time employee shall be computed
as a weekly salary based on 34 hours of work at the hourly rate hereinabove provided.
Part-time employees who qualify as provided hereinafter with respect to others
shall receive a vacation period as hereinafter provided. In such instance they shall
receive their regular pay (as above provided) for each week thereof.
Part-time employees shall receive and be paid a holiday pay, as hereinafter pro-
vided, provided, however, the pay therefor shall consist of 6.8 hours of regular pay
(i.e. , 6.8 hours computed at the hourly rate above provided).
Part-time eimployees shall be entitled to and shall receive a sick pay as herein-
after provided, provided, however, the maximum sick pay to be paid any such employee
on account of any single fiscal year of the City shall be six 6.8 hour days computed at
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the hourly rate above provided. After utilization of these six days such an employee
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shall be entitled to one additional sick day which shall b�/� pay,,.��
Section 5. Temporary Employees: A temporary employee shall be paid and receive
and hourly wage of not less than $2.50 per hour nor more than $4.00 per hour for each
hour actually worked in any applicable week. The hourly rate to be paid such an employee
shall be as from time to time determined by the applicable Department Head, Committee
Chairman and the Mayor.
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Section 6. Department Heads: The basic weekly salary to be paid to each
Department Head shall be the sum of $290.00. This City recognizes, however, that
Department Heads, by reason of managerial responsibilities and duties which transcend
those of other employees, may sometimes be required not only to perform services over
continuous periods of time considerably in excess of 40 hours in any one week, but
may sometimes be required or expected to perform services on holidays, at odd times,
on days off, during vacation periods, or at various other and unexpected times under
emergency or unusual conditions. Accordingly, and within reason, it shall be the pol-
icy of this City that such demands for services by Department Heads shall be recognized
by the corporate authorities of this City and that reasonable ad�ustments and concessions
therefor, both in money payments and as otherwise may be fair and suitable in particular-
ized instances, shall from time to time be considered and made, provided, however, that
any such ad�ustments shall be in the sole discretion of the corporate authorities of
this City and, further, that nothing herein contained shall be construed as an induce-
ment, promise or obligation running from the employer to any Department Head.
In the interpretation of the paragraph immediately preceding it is hereby declared
that the spirit and principles of all provisions of this City having to do with vacation
pay, holiday pay, night time bonus and sick pay, together with the concept of reasonable
and periodic time off from the demands of duty and employment, applies to Department
Heads.
Accordingly, in the implementation and application of the provisions of the two
paragraphs hereto preceding it shall be the DUTY of each Department Head to make weekly
report of the circumstances of his employment (whether by him deemed unusual or not) to
the Chairman of the appropriate Committee of this City, charged with immediate concern
for and over the Department of his e mployment, who is hereby authorized and directed
to make such immediate adjustments of salary and conditions of employment as may be
consonant with the intention and spirit of said paragraphs, provided, however, all such
ad�ustments of salary shall be reported on a monthly basis for approval by the corporate
authorities.
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Section 7. Appointive Positions: The following positions shall be filled by
appointment of the Mayor with concurrence of the City Council, and the annual salary
to be paid to the appointee for each such position (to be paid in 52 equal weekly
installments) shall be as indicated: One Radio Operator, $10699.00; One Radio Operator,
$10595.00; One Radio Operator, $10595.00; One Part-time Ra.dio Operatior, $1664.00;
One Radio Operator-File Clerk, $10699.00; One Care-Taker (Police Department) , $1560.00;
One City Attorney (part time) , $9267.44; One Deputy City Clerk, not to exceed $4247.72;
One Secretary to the Mayor, $9769.76; One Maintenance Supervisor, $14359.28; One
Buildings Custodian, $9298.64; One Traffic Control Officer, $11230.44; One Water
Department Cashier, $11114.48; One Traffic Department Clerk, $8931.00; One Supervisor
of Community Development Program, $22405. 76; One Assfstant to the Supervisor of
Community Development Program, $12166.44; and, One City Engineer and Coordinator,
$19413.16.
To the weekly salary of each of the three Radio Operators (other than part time
Radio Operator) , that of the Radio Operator-File Clerk, and that of the Traffic Control
Officer, shall be added and paid the further weekly sum of $5.00.
Each of the three Radio Operators (other than part time Radio Operator) and the
Radio Operator-File Clerk shall be allowed and paid a clothing allowance in yearly
amount of $100.00. This amount shall be paid in advance at the commencement of the
fiscal year of the City or as near thereto as practicable.
To the weekly salary of each employee filling an appointive position who regularly
works 40 hours each week shall be added and paid the further weekly sum of $2.00
commencing with the first 40 hours worked by such an employee following completion of
to the weekly salary
his probation period. A further sum of $2.00 sha11 be added/and paid to such an employee
commencing with the first 40 hours worked following completion of four years of contin-
uous service as such an employee.
Section 8. Vacation Pay: Each full time employee, official, officer, Department
Head (including persons filling a full-time appointive position) of the City of Canton,
Illinois, who qualifies therefor as hereinafter provided, shall receive a vacation
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period, consisting of one or more weeks, as hereinafter provided, with 40 hours regular
pay for each such week and as may be applicable to any such person, provided, however,
that such person shall not perform his regular work or render his regular services to
and for the City during any such vacation period or part thereof. The vacation period
or periods, hereinafter set forth, shall accrue by way of entitlement only after contin-
uous service to the employer for the entire lesser period in each instance named.
Further, for the purpose of computing vacation entitlement, continuous service with the
employer (as distinguished from service within a Department) shall be counted. The
vacation period hereby provided for such service of not less than one nor more than
three calendar years, shall be two weeks; for not less than three years, nor more than
ten years, three weeks; for not less than ten years, nor more than fifteen years, four
weeks; and, for any period in excess of fifteen years, five weeks. Vacation periods
may not be accumulated and must be used during the fiscal year of the City during which
the entitlement therefor arises unless otherwise expressly provided by the corporate
authorities at a regular meeting and upon request of the employee concerned.
Part-time employees, within the meaning of that term as defined herein, shall be
entitled to vacation periods and vacation pay on the same principles as above set forth
with resoect to full time employees.
Section 9. Aoliday Pay: Each full time employee, official, officer, Department
Head (including persons filling a full-time appointive position) of the City of Canton,
Illinois, shall receive and be paid a "Holiday Pay" consisting of, in each instance,
eight hours regular pay applicable to each such person, for each of the following seven
holidays, to-wit: New Year's Day; Memorial Day; Fourth of July; Labor Day; Veterans
Day; Thanksgiving Day; and, Christmas Day, provided, however, that such employee,
official, officer, or appointed person shall be and remain employed by and with the City
both before and after the applicable holiday for which payment is herein provided.
In the event any such person actually works an eight-hour period on any of the
holidays herein named as a part of his regular work wee�,such person shall receive and
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be paid a yet additional pay therefor consisting, in each instance, of eight hours
regular pay applicable to each such person.
The calendar day on which each such holiday falls and for which payment is to be
made, as herein provided, shall be as provided by law, or in the absence thereof, by
custom.
For the purpose of clarification, the intent of the foregoing is that each such
employee shall receive his regular pay for each named holiday if not worked; triple if
worked.
Department Heads shall not work on any of the holidays named except in emergency
or necessitous circumstances which cannot be circumvented.
Section 10. Night-time Bonus: Each full time employee, off icial, officer, or
Department Head of this City, excepting of inembers of the Fire Department, who works a
regular eight-hour night shift as a part of his regular work week, shall receive and be
paid an additional increasein his basic weekly salary in the amount of one-fifth of two
per centum thereof for each such eight-hour night shift actually worked. For the purpose
of this Section the term "night shift" shall mean any regular eight-hour period actually
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worked between the hours of three o'clock in the afternoon of any day and/�o'clock
in the morning of the day thereafter immediately succeeding.
Section 11. Sick Pay: Each full time employee, official, officer, Department
Head (including persons who work in full time appointive positions) , shall be entitled
to and shall be paid, during the fiscal year of the employer, a sick pay. Time taken
off for personal reasons shall be construed to be within the meaning of and encompassed
by the term "sick pay". The maximum sick pay to be paid by the employer to any employee
(excepting as hereinafter provided with respect to employees under the jurisdiction of
the Fire and Police Commission of this City) on account of any fiscal year of the employ-
er shall be: Six 8-hour days of regular pay (i.e. , six-fifths of the basic weekly
salary, based on 40 hours actually worked, plus additives, in the case of full-time
employees; six-f ifths of the basic weekly salary of Department Heads; or, six-fifths
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the weekly salary of full time appointive persons (together with applicable additives) .
In the event this sick pay is not paid to the individual entitled during the
current fiscal year on account of actual illness or actual personal time off for person-
al reasons, the same shall be paid at the commencement of the ensuing fiscal year of
the employer, or as near thereto as practicable.
Nothwithstanding provisions above set forth to the contrary, employees under the
jurisdiction of the Fire and Police Commission of this City shall receive a maximusix
sick pay, to be paid by the employer on account of any fiscal year, consisting of/��i�
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8-hour days of regular pay (i.e. ,/�g����� of the basic weekly salary, based on 40
hours actually worked, plus additives) . This sick pay shall be paid to these employees
in full during the fiscal year or at the commencement of the ensuing fiscal year of
the City, or as near thereto as practicable.
An employee entitled to sick pay, as hereinabove provided, shall also be entitled
two
to/m�e additional sick day off with eight hours of regular pay therefor during the fiscal
year of the City under the following conciitions: Thi� additiona? day may be utilized
only after the s3ck days to wh�ch such employee is entitled, as hereinabove set forth,
have actually been used as time off during the fiscal year; it must be actually used as
time off during the fiscal year; and, in the event the employee is called for emergency
duty with the City on such day, he shall be paid for such emergency duty at his straight
time rate, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary any place set forth.
Computation of sich pay for any employee newly hired as a full time employee,
whether for the first time or after a break in service with the City, shall be computed
with reference to the fiscal year of the City. Thus, the sick pay entitlement of such
an employee shall consist of that percent of the maximum sick pay (hereinabove provided)
which his length of service in the fiscal year of his hiring bears to the entire length
of such�fiscal year. Such a newly hired employee shall not be entitled as a matter
of right to extra tir.me off as a sick day.
The sick pay hereinabove provided shall be paid only after presentment to the
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Clerk and Treasurer of this City of a voucher or certificate of verification signed
by the applicable Department Head and Countersigned by the applicable Committee Chair-
man manifesting the entitlement of the particular employee to the sick pay claimed.
A Department Head shall sign his own voucher and on his own behalf and this, as to
him, shall be sufficient when countersigned by the applicable Committee Chairman.
Section 12. Insurance: The employer shall pay for and on behalf of its partici-
pating employees, including elected and appointed officers and employees, all applicable
premiums under the group insurance program presently in force between the employer and
the existing group insurer while such persons are employed by the employer.
The employer shall also pay applicable premiums under the group insurance program
presently in force in amount and for participating employees who are or may become retired,
as follows:
a. In the case of such employees who have become and now are retired and who
are entitled to monthly benefits under a pension plan of the employer, and who have
reached their respective ages of 55 years or more, the employer shall pay the applicable
premium for and on behalf of such retired employee in so far as the same does not exceed
$25.00 per month.
b. In the case of such employees who have 25 years of service and who, regard-
less of age, have become entitled to a pension under the provisions of the Police and
Firemen's Pension Fund, the employer shall pay the entire amount of the applicable pre-
mium of such insurance.
c. In the case of such employees who have 20 years of service and who have
reached their respective age of 50 years and who have become entitled to a pension under
the provisons of the Police and Firemen's Pension Fund, the employer shall pay the entire
amount of the applicable premium of such insurance.
d. In the case of such employees who hereafter retire and are eligible to
receive retirment benefits under the provisions of the Illinois Municipal Employees
Retirement provisions, the employer shall pay the entire amount of the applicable
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p�emium of such insurance, PRQVIDED, HOWEVER, in the event such employee chooses to
retire under such conditions that his retirement benefits are reduced on account of the
early retirement provisions of the Illinois Municipal Employees Retirement program,
then, and in that event, the amount of insurance premium paid on his behalf by the
employer shall be shall likewise proportionately reduced (and such employee, if he
chooses to continue such insurance, must then himself pay the difference in the premium
amount.
Section 13. New Employees-Physical Examination: All persons seeking employment
with the City, other than elected or appointive personnel, not otherwise required to
take a physical examination, who, by reason of their anticipated employment, would be
qualified to participate in the insurance program of this City, shall, prior to and as
a condition of employment, at their own expense, take and pass such physical examination
as may from time to time be prescribed by the insurance carrier of this City or, if
none, as shall be prescribed by the corporate authorities of this City.
Section 14. Cost of Living Allowance: Each employee of this City, excepting of
elected officials and temporary employees, shall receive and be paid a cost of living
allowance computed on and with respect to the weekly salary of each such employee and
the same shall be taken in account in the computation of vacation pay, holiday pay,
sick pay, or any specialty payment right, including overtime. The amount of the cost
of living allowance shall be determined and re-determined on the basis of the Consumer
Price Index For Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (Including Single Workers) pub-
lished by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor (referred to
herein as "the Index") . Continuance of the cost of living allowance shall be contingent
upon the availability of the Index in its present form. Determination and application
of the cost of living allowance shall be made in the following manner, at the following
times, and for application in the following way:
a. Manner of Determination: The cost of living allowance shall consist of 1C
per hour added to the regular average hourly wage of each qualifying employee for each
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three-tenths of one percent rise in the cost o� living index which occurs over the
status of the index as it now exists.
b. Time of Determination: The cost of living allowance shall be determined by
the corporate authorities at the beginning of each quarter (or as near thereto as prac-
ticable) of the fiscal year of the City.
c. Time of Payment of Cost of Living Allowance: The cost of living allowance,
as determined, shall be paid for at the quarters of the fiscal year of the City, in each
instance commencing as early in the applicable quarter as practicable.
Section 15. Other Benefits: The employer recognizes that there are and may yet be
other benefits which ought to enure from the employer to the employee on account of
peculiar conditions or requirements of employment. Among these are:
a. Basic Telephone Bills to Be Paid For Certain Employees: Certain employees
of this City, as a condition of employment, are required to have installed and maintained,
in their homes, a telephone. As to these, the employer shall pay each such BASIC phone
bill as the same may from time to time exist. The employees entitled to such payment
on account of such bill shall be identified in the Minutes of a Regular meeting of the
corporate authorities as early in the fiscal year as may be practicable.
b. The policy of this City is that a minimum pay of $200.00 per week of 40
hours worked shall be paid all new employees excepting of part-time and appointed employees
(and, as to them, their beginning salary shall be as from time to time determined by the
corporate authorities.)
Section 16. Interpretation: This Ordinance represents the legislative determinat on
of the corporate authorities of this City and is not contractual in its impact and the
interpretation hereof, in the event of ambiguities or questions of application, accord-
ingly, shall be in the sole discretion of such authorities.
Section 17. Effective Date: The provisions hereby shall be and become effective
May 1, 1976.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Canton, Illinois and APPROVED by the
Mayor thereof this � day of May, 1976.
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ATTEST: , CITY CLERK.
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