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service) shall receive one-half of their accumulated sick leave up to a maximum of 45 days." Again, this is similar to what is found in Centerville's unionized employees contract. This benefit is used to retain employees and to reward a minimum level of longevity. As stated in the argument above, it is important to an organization to retain employees who provide a valuable service to the City. By adopting severance, the Council is not committing to providing it to every employee and does not guarantee that an employee will receive severance; they would receive severance only if they have any unused sick leave; the employee leaves in good standing; and then they only receive the monetary value of half of their remaining time. For those employees that retire, some cities also allow accrued sick time to be applied to post- retirement health care premiums. In other words, rather than having a large payout of money to retirees for the accrued sick time, this benefit can be paid out monthly over a span of time, thus controlling the City's future financial liability. And it also provides retiring employees an opportunity to continue health benefits as they adjust to retirement. IV. Vacation Accrual. Adopted 12/912002: Years of Service 1 - 5 6 - 10 11 (two weeks) (three weeks) (four weeks) Vacation Earned 6.67 hrs. per month 10 hrs. per month 13.33 hrs. per month Adopted 12/27/1997: o - 6 months one week After 1 year two weeks After 4th year (4 - 9) three weeks After 9 years (9 -15) four weeks After 15 years (15 - 20) five weeks After 20 years six weeks Employees using earned vacation leave shan be considered to be working for the purpose of accumulating additional vacation leave. By adopting the more restrictive vacation accrual policy, current non-unionized employees that have worked for the City for more than four years, have lost a week of vacation. Again, unionized employees through their contract will continue to enjoy a more liberal vacation accrual schedule. The employees that are affected by this reduction include Teresa Bender and Paul Palzer. Each would have earned an additional week of vacation in 2003. If Council is interested in going to a more abbreviated vacation accrual schedule, perhaps making it affective with future employees, thus leaving the previous schedule in place for current employees.