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PURPOSE: The City of Colton recognizes the need for City -owned cellular phones and establishes procedures for their authorization, deployment, and use to contain costs, ensure departmental accountability and personal responsibility, and prevent improper use. Excessive personal use or abuse of this privilege can result in loss of the use of the phone and/or disciplinary action. PROVISIONS: The Finance Department will administer the City Cellular Phone Program. To ensure the City is receiving the best cellular phone rates possible, once a year the Finance Department will review the different rate plans available. Employees are responsible for maintaining adequate physical protection of all equipment issued to them by the City. The Finance department shall be notified immediately if any City -owned cellular phones is damaged or stolen. The list of cellular phone users will be reviewed in July of each year by the City Manager to ensure the designated employees continue to demonstrate a need for the equipment they have been issued. POLICY: 1 All City cell phones are provided as a tool to conduct City -related business and will be used in a responsible manner by all City employees. 2. Approval for the purchase and/or service of cell phones shall lie with the City Manager or his/her designee (hereafter called "I.S. Coordinaton. 3. The City recognizes that employees will, on occasion, need to make or receive personal telephone calls or communication. If a personal call is necessary, employees will observe the following: a. the duration must be kept to a minimum (less than three minutes) b. it is expected that desktop/landline phones will be used when possible c. such calls will be made only during employee breaks d. the employee will repay the City for costs incurred Number: 4.04.125 City of Colton Administrative Policy Date: April 19.2005 Page: 1 of 6 Authority: City Manager SUBJECT: Cell Phone Policy City Manager PURPOSE: The City of Colton recognizes the need for City -owned cellular phones and establishes procedures for their authorization, deployment, and use to contain costs, ensure departmental accountability and personal responsibility, and prevent improper use. Excessive personal use or abuse of this privilege can result in loss of the use of the phone and/or disciplinary action. PROVISIONS: The Finance Department will administer the City Cellular Phone Program. To ensure the City is receiving the best cellular phone rates possible, once a year the Finance Department will review the different rate plans available. Employees are responsible for maintaining adequate physical protection of all equipment issued to them by the City. The Finance department shall be notified immediately if any City -owned cellular phones is damaged or stolen. The list of cellular phone users will be reviewed in July of each year by the City Manager to ensure the designated employees continue to demonstrate a need for the equipment they have been issued. POLICY: 1 All City cell phones are provided as a tool to conduct City -related business and will be used in a responsible manner by all City employees. 2. Approval for the purchase and/or service of cell phones shall lie with the City Manager or his/her designee (hereafter called "I.S. Coordinaton. 3. The City recognizes that employees will, on occasion, need to make or receive personal telephone calls or communication. If a personal call is necessary, employees will observe the following: a. the duration must be kept to a minimum (less than three minutes) b. it is expected that desktop/landline phones will be used when possible c. such calls will be made only during employee breaks d. the employee will repay the City for costs incurred