RESPONSIBLE CITY AGENCY: Fire Department
KEYWORDS: Fire Department, Combat Crews, Vacation/Holiday Buy Back program
Preface
Salt Lake City receives professional, safe and effective emergency services. Deploying four firefighters per engine or truck enhances those services while increasing the safety of the firefighters providing those services.
Therefore, I enact this Executive Order:
1. General
1.1 The City has created a Vacation/Holiday Buy Back program within the Fire Department to provide staffing of four firefighters per engine or truck to the extent possible. The Fire Chief shall maintain the Vacation/Holiday Buy Back program as one of the highest budget priorities of the Fire Department and shall manage the Fire Department budget with a goal of adequately funding that program.
1.2 The Fire Chief shall solicit volunteers from the Vacation/Holiday Buy Back program when staffing levels would otherwise be reduced. The Fire Chief may solicit other Department employees to provide staffing of four firefighters per engine or truck.
1.3 Fire Department personnel working either under the Vacation/Holiday Buy Back program or otherwise off the employee roster shall be compensated as required by City ordinance or by any memorandum of understanding between the City and Local 1645 of the International Association of Firefighters.
CURRENT REFERENCES: None
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 19, 2002
EFFECTIVE DATE OF CURRENT REVISION (Date signed by Mayor): July 1, 2009