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8.4 Compensation for Overtime. A. The preferable method by which overtime shall be compensated is by monetary payment, at one and one-half (1 1/2) times the employee's regular rate of pay. B. Should the Police Chief determine that the best interests of the City will be served thereby, he or his designee may permit an employee to be compensated for overtime work by earning compensatory time off at the rate of one and one-half (1 1/2) hours for each hour of overtime worked. This time, hereinafter identified as "comp time" shall be accrued as set forth below. C. There are two Comp Time banks. The first bank is the Non -FLEA Comp -Time Bank established under the 2013-2015 MOU. Those employees hired after July 1, 2015 or those employees with less than 100 hours of Comp -Time at the time the banks were created will not have a Non-FLSA Comp -Time Bank. The second bank is the FLSA Comp -Time Bank. 1. The Non-FLSA Comp Time Bank can never have hours added to it. The hours in that bank can only be used as leave time and when using such leave will not cause the City to have to pay another employee overtime to fill behind the employee using the leave. The camp time in this bank cannot be cashed out during employment, only at the time the employee leaves City employment. If an employee uses the comp time in this bank during employment and exhausts the entire accrual in this bank, the employee's Non-FLSA Comp Time Bank will be closed as no additional hours may accrue into this bank. 2. The FLSA Comp Time Bank has a maximum accrual of one -hundred (100) hours. An employee who has 100 hours in this bank will earn overtime paid at time and one half the employee's regular rate of pay for overtime earned in accordance with this MOU and the FLSA. An employee who works overtime and who has less than 100 hours in his/her FLSA Comp Time Bank may be able to accrue hours (at the rate of 1.5 hours for each hour of overtime worked) in accordance with subdivision (B) above. The Comp time in this bank can be cashed in accordance with the provisions detailed below. Each affected employee who has accrued comp time credits in the FLSA Comp Time Bank, may elect to convert up to twenty (20) hours of such accrued time each calendar year quarter to the cash equivalent thereof, to a maximum of eighty (80) hours per calendar year. D. Use of Comp Time from the FLSA Comp Time Bank. When an employee submits a request for time off using accrued compensatory time, and that employee has found a qualified replacement, the time off request will be granted. A qualified replacement means that the replacement officer or employee is able to fulfill the requirements of 27