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to use sick leave to defer termination of their employment by the City nor shall they be compensated for sick leave upon such termination for any reason including but not limited to retirement. An employee who is permanently disabled from performing the duties of the position shall be retired upon that fact being established. In the event such employee applies for and consents to such retirement, then upon the retirement being accomplished, the employee shall be compensated for his/her accumulated unused sick (if and only if he/she has five years regular paid City service) by payment in a lump sum. That sum is determined as follows: If employed more than five years, but less than ten - 108 If employed more than ten years, but less than fifteen - 258 If employed more than fifteen years - 508 The Fire and Police Chiefs, who by state law are entitled to up to one year of salary while temporarily disabled due to job incurred injuries, shall not be entitled to use sick leave to defer their retirement for disability. Such personnel are not entitled to use sick leave for job incurred injuries. With regard to such personnel, they shall be retired as soon as it is determined that they are permanently disabled from performing the duties of their position. Upon it being determined that such a person is permanently so disabled, if he/she immediately applies for and consents to his/hex retirement then, and only then, shall he/she be entitled to payment for accumulated sick leave. Such payment shall be computed as follows: Five to ten years employment - 108 Ten to fifteen years employment - 258 over fifteen years of employment - 508 A regular salaried employee who has worked for the City at least five years and has accumulated sick leave who terminates his/her employment for any reason shall be paid as full compensation for such sick leave as computed in the above paragraph. Employees who are granted a service retirement (rather than disability retirement) shall receive a sum equal to the cash value of seventy-five percent (758) of the employee's acxun elated sick leave after twenty (20) cumulative years of service with the City. The cash value shall be computed at the employee's hourly rate in existence at the time the monies are disbursed. The above -enumerated benefits shall be reduced by one-half (1/2) for all employees of the Unit hired on or after January 1, 1987. Nothing herein shall reduce the above -enumerated benefits of employees hired prior to January 1, 1987, who thereafter are promoted into an Executive position. All Executive employees: Employees may be reimbursed up to $1,000 per year, per employee, for 1008 of tuition costs and for 508 of text book costs. Such expenditure must enhance furtherance of City or continuing educational goals. Requests for such reimbursement must be approved in advance by the Personnel Officer. 4