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ARTICLE VI <br />6.0 ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION <br />6.1 Bilingual Pay. An employee whom the Executive Director or his designee assigns to a <br />position requiring bilingual capability in both English and either Samoan, Spanish, <br />Vietnamese or other languages designated by the City Manager, will be paid a montly <br />premium in accordance with the criteria and amounts set forth below: <br />A. Certification by the Executive Director of Human Resources as having <br />satisfactorily demonstrated conversational fluency in both languages for any <br />position requiring bilingual capability. <br />B. Positions for which the Executive Director has determined that bilingual <br />proficiency is essential to carry out duties and responsibilities of a critical and/or <br />emergency nature without ready access to backup assistance, or positions where <br />bilingual public contact is a major and essential element of the work being <br />performed, will be designated as Primary Bilingual Assignments. A qualified <br />incumbent of such positions will be paid a monthly premium of one hundred <br />seventy-five dollars ($175) above his or her then current base monthly salary step. <br />C. Positions where it has been determined by the Executive Director that regular and <br />frequent bilingual usage is necessary to the performance of duties, but not a major, <br />essential or integral element of the work, will be designated as Secondary Bilingual <br />Assignments. A qualified incumbent of such position will be paid a monthly <br />differential of forty dollars ($40.00) above his or her monthly salary step for each <br />of such assignment. <br />D. The number of such Primary and/or Secondary Bilingual Assignment shall be no <br />larger than the requirements of the department as determined by the Executive <br />Director and the City Manager. <br />E. There may be annual re -certification of such bilingual capability. <br />6.2 All assignments to positions providing for bilingual pay as set forth in this Article shall be <br />made or revoked at the sole discretion of the Executive Director, <br />SANTA ANA MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (SAMA) MOU: 2019.2022 <br />