Prior to the adoption of Ord. 15754 on 09/21/1998, Section 19-96 read as follows.

(1) Fire department shift employees shall work a twenty-seven-day work period (fifty-six (56) hours per week average) and shall be paid at the overtime rate (or compensatory time in accordance with FLSA standards) for all hours worked in excess of two hundred four (204) hours during the work period.

(2) Police officers and sergeants shall work a twenty-eight-day work period and shall be paid at the overtime rate (or compensatory time in accordance with FLSA standards) for all hours worked in excess of one hundred seventy (170) hours during the work period.

(3) Airport fire/safety officers shall work a fourteen-day work period and shall be paid at the overtime rate (or compensatory time in accordance with FLSA standards) for all hours worked in excess of eighty (80) hours during the work period.

(4) All other overtime eligible employees shall work a seven-day work period and shall be paid at the overtime rate (or compensatory time in accordance with FLSA standards) for all hours worked in excess of forty (40) hours during the work period. The work period for such employees shall begin at midnight on Sunday morning.

(c) Overtime work shall be kept to a minimum, and in order to be considered as overtime, the work and the time of doing it must have been assigned by the employee's department head or duly authorized supervisor.

(1) Shall be noted in the classification and pay plan and shall generally include administrative, professional and supervisory positions.

(2) Shall have salary ranges based on all services rendered and the realization that the employee will not be separately compensated for overtime.

(3) May have their contributions to the development and accomplishment of departmental goals evaluated in terms of total performance, output, effectiveness, and achievement rather than on adherence to set specific working hours.

(4) Shall, at the discretion of the department head, not be held rigidly to the established city schedule of leave accumulation and usage. Time absent from work and deviations from the official work hours of the employee's department must be with the approval of the employee's department head who shall have the responsibility for evaluating the employee's performance and justifying permitted deviations from established hours of work and earned leaves.

(g) Overtime assignments will be distributed as equally as practicable among members of each overtime equalization unit. Such overtime equalization units shall consist of the qualified employees in a job classification or employee work group. No employee will be given an overtime assignment unless he is qualified to perform it. The department head or supervisor shall maintain a roster showing the overtime hours worked by employees in each overtime equalization unit, or work group. If an employee refuses an overtime assignment he will be credited, for purposes of overtime equalization, with the number of hours refused.