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AGREEMENTS\\CSEA – Memorandum Agreement – COVID-19-Personal Leave Policy-4-6-2020
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING MODIFICATION OF POLICY RELATED
TO USE OF PERSONAL LEAVE DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND
RATIFYING MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TOWN
AND THE TOWN’S UNIT OF THE CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES
ASSOCIATION, INC. (CSEA)
RESOLUTION NO.: _____________________________________________________, 2020
INTRODUCED BY: _____________________________________________________
WHO MOVED ITS ADOPTION
SECONDED BY: _____________________________________________________
WHEREAS, the Town of Queensbury (Town) has entered into an Agreement with the Town
of Queensbury Unit of the Civil Service Employees Association, Inc. (CSEA) regarding employment of
the Town’s CSEA members, and
WHEREAS, by Resolution Nos: 123,2020 and 133,2020, the Town Board authorized
adoption of its COVID-19 Pandemic Response Plan and Revised Plan, and
WHEREAS, as a result of requirements placed on the Town due to the COVID-19 Pandemic,
CSEA employees may not be able to use their personal leave by their respective anniversary dates and
therefore the Town Board wishes to adopt a policy to provide all Town employees with additional
flexibility regarding the use of personal leave, and
WHEREAS, the Town and the CSEA entered into a Memorandum of Agreement and the
Memorandum of Agreement is presented at this meeting,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED, that as a result of requirements placed on the Town due to the COVID-19
Pandemic, the Queensbury Town Board hereby authorizes a modification to the Town’s personal leave
policy to provide all Town employees with additional flexibility regarding the use of personal leave as
follows:
PERSONAL LEAVE. If, because of the duration of the state of emergency and
constraints born by national, state and/or local plans or orders that arose as an
effort to curtail the spread of COVID-19, Town employees are unable to utilize
their personal leave allocations before their respective anniversary due dates,
such employees will be given the option of either adding those unused personal
days to their next anniversary date or receive payment for them at the
employee’s current rate of pay. The employee must notify the Accounting
Department, in writing, as to which option the employee elects one week prior to
the employee’s anniversary date. If an employee fails to make such election, the
employee’s unused personal days will be added as additional personal days that
may be used until the employee’s next anniversary date.
and
BE IT FURTHER,
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RESOLVED, that the Town Board further authorizes and ratifies the March 30, 2020
Memorandum of Agreement between the Town and the Town’s Unit of the Civil Service Employees
Association, Inc., presented at this meeting, and
BE IT FURTHER,
RESOLVED, that the Town Board further authorizes and directs the Town Supervisor to
forward copies of this Resolution to all Town Department Managers and the Town Supervisor and/or
Town Budget Officer to take such other and further actions necessary to effectuate the terms of this
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Resolution.
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Duly adopted this 6 day of April, 2020, by the following vote:
AYES :
NOES :
ABSENT:
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MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT
THIS MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT is made on March ,-> ,2020, by and between the
TOWN OF QUEENSBURY("Town")and CSEA("CSEA") as follows:
WHEREAS,the parties have entered into a Collective Bargaining Agreement that expired on
December 31, 2019; and
WHEREAS, due to the requirements placed on the Town due to the COVID-19 situation,
bargaining unit employees may not be able to use their personal leave by their respective anniversary
dates;and
WHEREAS,the Town is adopting a policy regarding the use of personal leave for all Town
employees;
NOW,THEREFORE,the parties agree as follows:
1. The Town is adopting the following policy on personal leave:
PERSONAL LEAVE. If, because of the duration of the state of emergency and constraints
born by national,state and/or local plans or orders that arose as an effort to curtail the
spread of COVID-19, Town employees are unable to utilize their personal leave
allocations before their respective anniversary due dates,such employees will be given
the option of either adding those unused personal days to their next anniversary date or
receive payment for them at the employee's current rate of pay.The employee must
notify the Accounting Department, in writing, as to which option the employee elects
one week prior to the employee's anniversary date. If an employee fails to make such
election,the employee's unused personal days will be added as additional personal days
that may be used until the employee's next anniversary date.
2. CSEA agrees that the bargaining unit employees shall be covered by the proposed Town
policy referenced in Paragraph 1 herein regarding the use of personal days.
3. This Memorandum of Agreement shall not serve as any precedent between the parties
for any future collective bargaining or for any reason whatsoever.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF,the parties hereto have signed this Agreement as of the day and year
first above written.
TOWN OF QUEENSBURY
BY:
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