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SOP-9 Acting Pay Assignments Police Services Division SOP-9 July 7, 2010 SUBJECT: Acting Pay Assignments PURPOSE: To establish guidelines for temporarily assigning out-of-class duties at a higher level to classified employees, and for appropriately compensating personnel who are so assigned. PROCESS: This process is intended to serve the interests of effective public service and to provide for additional compensation for employees who are assigned significant out-of-class duties. This procedure complies with the guidelines established in the City Manager’s memo of June 29, 2010, Acting Pay Procedures. The operations of the Department of Public Safety may routinely require specific acting pay assignments, as established and defined below. Other acting pay assignments may be made on as-needed basis, and will comply with City guidelines. All acting pay assignments will be made by the Director of Public Safety or his/her designee. I. COMPENSATION: A. Acting Supervisor/Watch Commander Pay: Public Safety Officers who have passed an eligibility testing process approved by the Director of Public Safety shall be eligible to serve as an Acting Supervisor/Watch Commander. As a specific decision-making role and authority is delegated with this assignment, this assignment may be made for a period of any length, up to three months. Continuous assignment for periods exceeding one pay period will be made in writing. Acting Supervisor/Watch Commander assignments will be compensated by a 5% acting pay stipend for all hours actually worked as an Acting Supervisor/Watch Commander. An Acting Supervisor/Watch Commander assignment may be compensated by a 10% acting pay stipend to ensure against loss of income to the assigned Public Safety Officer if other assignment-based compensation is removed due to the Acting Supervisor/Watch Commander assignment. B. Acting Lieutenant Pay: Public Safety Sergeants shall be eligible to serve as an Acting Lieutenant. The duration of such assignments may range from one pay period up to three months, and will be made in writing. An Acting Lieutenant assignment will typically be compensated by a 10% acting pay stipend for all hours actually worked as an Acting Lieutenant. This stipend may be adjusted upon assignment if necessary, to ensure against loss of income to the assigned Sergeant if other assignment-based compensation is removed due to the Acting Lieutenant assignment. The exact amount of the stipend shall be calculated to most closely match the Sergeant’s existing pay structure, and shall not exceed a maximum of 15%. A Sergeant receiving an Acting Lieutenant stipend may sign up for routine overtime offered to all Sergeants but shall not be paid the Acting Lieutenant stipend for such overtime hours worked. Acting Lieutenants will receive overtime as required by law for emergency holdovers, or for overtime work assigned by the Director of Public Safety or his/her designee.