ARTICLE 13 - PROTECTION OF CITY PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT
A. It shall be the responsibility of all employees having custody of or assigned to
operate any equipment or property to see to it that it is properly cared for kept clean and returned
to proper storage place at the end of the work shift. No City owned vehicle will be used by a
City employee for other than City business.
B. All truck drivers and equipment operators will be required to check oil, water,
tires and accessories (wipers, defrosters, etc.) daily before operation. All drivers and operators
will be held responsible to notify the garage foreman when the equipment being operated is in
need of any mechanical adjustment or correction. The operator’s vehicle condition report will be
completed and turned in on a daily basis. Failure on the part of such employees to comply with
the above will be grounds for disciplinary action or reclassification.
Cc. The City agrees to furnish two-copy deficiency report slips of which truck drivers
and equipment operators are to indicate any mechanical adjustments or corrections believed to be
necessary. The foreman of equipment maintenance or designee shall sign one copy of the
deficiency report for retention by the employee.
Dz. When skating rinks are being flooded, all available Park Department vehicles
shall be assigned to the flooding operations.
ARTICLE 14 - GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE
A, It shall be the purpose of this grievance procedure to settle grievances between the
City and Union as expeditiously and fairly as possible. Any difference as to the interpretation of
this Agreement in its application to a particular situation, or as to whether it has been observed
and performed, shall be a grievance under this Agreement and the parties shall observe the
following procedure for the adjustment and settlement of such grievance.
An employee may present an oral grievance without the intervention of the Union. Until
the grievance is reduced to writing, the Union shall be excluded from any meetings if the
employee so requests. Any resolution of the grievance shall not be inconsistent with the terms of
this agreement. The Union shall be notified of the resolution of the grievance.
Without intending to expand the definition of a grievance beyond violations of this
agreement, all written grievances will be submitted on an AFSCME Council 93 Official
Grievance Form, which is appended hereto as Appendix C.
Grievance Mediation may take place, at no cost to either party, in the grievance
procedure at any time if agreed by both parties. Either party may submit a request to the other
requesting Grievance Mediation. Mediator services through the Federal Mediation and
Conciliation Service shall be used. Mediation shall not be binding and cannot be used by either
party in further proceeding should mediation fail.
Step I: Within eight (8) workdays of the incident leading to grievance, if the parties
involved have not reached a verbal agreement, then the grievance shall be
reduced to writing, signed by the employee and the union, and presented to
the Superintendent or his designated representative. If the grievance remains
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