ORANGE COUNTY AUTO THEFT TASK FORCE (OCATT)

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general support items such as work space, office furniture, vehicle, communications equipment and other equipment necessary to perform investigative duties. IV. FISCAL PROCEDURES A. Salaries and Benefits The task force coordinator, participating investigators from the Department of Motor Vehicles and the California Highway Patrol, will not be reimbursed for salaries and benefits. The salaries, benefits and overtime of all remaining task force participants will be reimbursed to the participating agencies by the task force fund. The personnel assigned to the task force will be paid by their respective agencies. It shall be the responsibility of the coordinator to institute a system of checks and balances, whereby, the hours of each participant will be authorized and audited for accuracy. This information will be reported to the participating agencies' time analyst, with a copy to the task force accounting staff. The task force coordinator will retain a copy of this record. Members assigned to the task force whose salaries and benefits are reimbursed by the task force fund shall be assigned as a full time position. The administrative processing to determine payroll by the participating agencies will not be reimbursed. B. Participant Claims for Reimbursement Participating agencies may request reimbursement for task force members' regular salaries, benefits and overtime. Reimbursement will be based on actual hours of program participation. Overtime expense will be reimbursed using task force member's overtime pay rate at the time the overtime hours worked regardless of these hours being paid in cash or converted to compensation time off by participating agencies. Hence, to avoid duplicate billing, the compensation time off taken by task force members will not be reimbursed from the task force fund. When OCATT investigators attend training not related to OCATT duties, i.e. riot training, bomb squad, scuba Page 6 of 12