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Effective July 1, 2002, employees will contribute one-half percent (.5%) of <br />their base salary plus pay additives through payroll deduction to a fund <br />maintained by the City of Santa Ana for the purpose of providing retiree <br />health insurance premium reduction assistance. This payroll deduction for <br />retiree health insurance premium reduction assistance will continue until such <br />time as the parties may mutually agree to end said deduction. <br /> <br />By previous Agreement, employees designated as CalPERS Miscellaneous <br />contributed one percent (1%) of their salary towards the cost of the 2% at 55 <br />retirement benefit by taking a deduction in pay of two (2) salary rate ranges. This <br />deduction was eliminated, effective November l, 2001. <br /> <br />4.4 <br /> <br />Application of Basic Compensation Plan. All employees working in classifications of <br />employment covered by this Agreement shall be compensated at a monthly rate, as set forth <br />in Exhibit B. <br /> <br />4.5 <br /> <br />Beginning Rates. An employee appointed to one of the designated sworn (CalPERS <br />"Safety") classifications of employment listed in this Agreement may be placed by the <br />appointing authority at Step "A," Step "B," or Step "C" within the applicable rate range in <br />the schedule to which the class has been allocated by Resolution of the City, provided that <br />such employee shall be assigned such salary step upon the commencement of his or her <br />service in said classification and such assignment having once been made shall remain in <br />effect until the said employee shall be entitled to advance to the next salary step in <br />accordance with the further provisions of the Article. <br /> <br />An employee appointed to one of the designated non-sworn (CalPERS "Miscellaneous") <br />classifications of employment listed in this Agreement may be placed by the appointing <br />authority at Step "AA," Step "A," Step "B," or Step "C," within the applicable salary rate <br />range as provided above. <br /> <br />4.6 <br /> <br />Service. The word "service" as used in this Agreement shall be deemed to mean continuous, <br />full-time service in the classification in which the employee is being considered for salary <br />advancement, service in a higher classification or service in a classification allocated to the <br />same salary rate range and having generally similar duties and requirements. Employees <br />hired after the first (1 st) working day of the month shall not be credited with "time in service" <br />for that month when determining the length of service required for salary step advancement. <br />A lapse of service by an employee for a period of time longer than ten (10) calendar days by <br />reason of resignation, quit, or discharge, shall serve to eliminate the accumulated length of <br />service time of such employee for the purpose of this Agreement and any such employee <br />reentering the service of the City shall be considered as a new employee, except that he or <br />she ma3' be reemployed within two (2) years and placed in the same salary step in the <br />appropriate salary rate as he or she was at the time of termination of employment. <br />"Resignation, quit, or discharge" for purposes of this section shall mean leaving City service <br /> <br /> <br />