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Each eligible employee on a forty (40) hour workweek shall accrue vacation with pay in accordance with <br />the following schedule: <br />Years of Continuous Service Monthly Accrual Rate <br />First through fourth year <br />Fifth through eleventh <br />Twelfth through fourteenth <br />Fifteenth through sixteenth <br />Seventeenth year or more <br />13.3 Vacation Accumulation <br />8.57 hours <br />11.43 hours <br />14.29 hours <br />15.71 hours <br />17.14 hours <br />Accrued vacation shall be credited to the employee's account biweekly. <br />Any employee except a probationary employee may be allowed to incur a fifty -six (56) hour deficit <br />beyond the vacation leave credited to his/her account. <br />Except as provided below in Section 13.4 and for those employees working a forty (40) hour workweek, <br />vacations must be used in increments of either twenty -four (24) or twelve (12) hours. When used in <br />twelve -hour increments, vacations must be taken from either 0800 to 2000, or 2000 to 0800 The Fire <br />Chief may, however, approve vacation requests in less than twelve (12) hour increments to <br />accommodate employee enrollment in college or university courses. The courses or classes attended <br />must, however, be appropriate to employee development. The decision of the Fire Chief shall be final. <br />Any eligible employee may defer up to a maximum of one and one -half (1 -1/2) times his/her annual <br />vacation entitlement to the year succeeding his/her anniversary of hire date. <br />13.4 Vacation Scheduling <br />Vacation selection will be subject to the procedure stated in Fire Department General Order, Personnel- <br />Vacation, except for those areas specifically stated differently in this article. <br />For the annual scheduling done in January of each year, seven (7) persons of any rank shall be allowed <br />off at any given time. Vacation requests by an eighth (8th) or additional person requires the requesting <br />person to provide the name of his/her replacement. (See Fire Department General Order, Personnel- <br />Overtime, Overtime, III, M; - Finding your own Replacement). <br />Vacation shall be prescheduled in accordance with the General Order provided the leave time requested <br />has been earned or will be earned by the time it is taken. The Fire Chief may grant the use of up to fifty - <br />six (56) hours of vacation time to be taken beyond what has been earned. This leave shall not be <br />prescheduled or considered earned vacation for accrual purposes. <br />When an employee carries a negative balance no additional vacation may be taken until a sufficient <br />number of vacation hours have been earned. <br />14 <br />