Resolution 13410CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 13410
PROVIDING FOR ADDITIONAL TEMPORARY
FULLY PAID MILITARY LEAVE OF ABSENCE AND
CONTINUATION OF BENEFITS FOR CITY EMPLOYEES
CALLED TO ACTIVE DUTY WITH THE ARMED FORCES
WHEREAS, the City of Alameda currently provides fully paid leave of absence and
continuation of benefits for a maximum of thirty (30) calendar days per fiscal year to employees who
have been in City service for at least one (1) year and who are ordered to report to active duty; and
WHEREAS, a number of City of Alameda employees have been, and other
employees may be, called into active military service in connection with actions to combat terrorism
against America; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Alameda desires to alleviate financial
hardships which employees and their families will experience as a result of being called to active
duty to serve during such crisis.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of
Alameda that:
1. In addition to the fully paid military leave currently provided by the City of Alameda,
each full time officer or employee of the City who is eligible to receive such paid leave and, who has
been, or is in the future, volunteers for or is called to involuntary active military service with the
Armed Forces of the United States to serve in support of the current actions to combat terrorism
against America, shall be entitled to leave with full pay pursuant to the terms of this Resolution for
the period of absence on active duty in excess of the period covered by current paid military leave
provisions, for up to one year.
2. The amount of pay each employee shall be entitled to receive from the City for said
additional period of military leave shall be the usual gross wages that said officer or employee would
have received from the City of Alameda if he or she had not served on active military duty, subject
to all required and appropriate deductions and withholdings. In exchange for the employee's usual
gross wages, said employee shall turn in to the City all wages he or she received from the U.S.
military as a result of his or her direct involvement in extended reservist duties.
3. The City shall provide continued health and welfare benefits to such employees'
dependents, provided that the dependents were covered for such benefits prior to the employee being
called to active duty.
4. Wage or benefits pursuant to this Resolution are conditioned upon the officer or employee
requesting such payment providing satisfactory proof and documentation of eligibility to receive
payment in the accordance with procedures established by the Human Resources Director.
5. The City Manager is directed to create procedures to implement the payment of the
employee's wages, conditioned upon the employee's relinquishing to the City all wages he or she
receive from the U.S. military as a result of his or her involvement in extended reservist duties.
1, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly
adopted and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda in a regular meeting assembled on the 6th
day of November, 2001, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Daysog, Johnson, Kerr and
Mayor Appezzato - 4.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Vice Mayor DeWitt - 1
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City
this 7th, day of November, 2001.
Lara Weisiger, City'Clerk
City of Alameda