08-24-15 Regular Meeting of La Porte City Council

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Section 5: Disability If Employee is permanently disabled or is otherwise unable to perform his duties because of sickness, accident, injury, mental incapacity or health for a period of four successive weeks beyond any accrued sick leave and leave available under the Family Medical. Leave Act, if any, Employer shall have the option to terminate this agreement, subject to the severance pay requirements of Section 3, Paragraph A. Section 6: Salary Employer agrees to pay Employee for his services rendered pursuant hereto, an annual base salary of $182,802.88, payable in installments at the same time as other managerial employees of the Employer are paid. In addition, Employer agrees to increase said base salary and/or benefits of Employee in such amounts and to such extent as the City Council may determine that is desirable to do so on the basis of annual salary review as a part of the annual performance evaluation process and at any other time the City Council deems appropriate. Section 7: Performance Evaluation A. The City Council shall review and evaluate the performance of the Employee at least once annually. Such review and evaluation shall be in accordance with specific criteria developed jointly by Employer and Employee, and in accordance to the provisions of the La Porte City Charter and La Porte Employee Policies Handbook. Said criteria may be added to or deleted from as the City Council may from time to time determine, in consultation with the Employee. Further, the Mayor of the City of La Porte shall provide the employee with a summary written statement of the findings of the City Council and provide an adequate opportunity for the Employee to discuss his evaluation with the City Council. B. Annually, the City Council and Employee shall define such goals and performance objectives that they determine necessary for the proper operation of the City of La Porte and in the attainment of the City Council's policy objectives and shall further establish a relative priority among those various goals and objectives, said goals and objectives to be reduced to writing. They shall generally be attainable within the time limitations as specified and the annual operating and capital budgets and appropriations provided. C. In effecting the provisions of this Section, the City Council and Employee mutually agree to abide by the provisions of applicable law. Section 8: Work Hours It is recognized that Employee must devote a great deal of time outside the normal office hours to the business of the Employer, and to that end Employee will be allowed to take time off as he shall deem appropriate during said normal office hours. Section 9: Outside Activities Employee shall not spend more than 10 hours per week in teaching, consulting or other non Employer -connected business without the prior approval of the City Council. Employee's outside