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ARTICLE V <br />5.0 ASSIGNMENT & OTHER SPECIAL PAY ADDITIVES <br />5.1 Bilingual Assignment Pay. An employee who speaks both English and either Spanish, <br />Samoan, Vietnamese or other languages designated by the Police Chief, will be paid a <br />monthly assignment pay differential in accordance with the criteria and amounts set forth <br />below: <br />A. Effective the first full pay period following member ratification and City Council <br />adoption if this MOU, any Police Captain or Police Lieutenant who has been certified <br />by the Executive Director of Personnel Services as having satisfactorily demonstrated <br />conversational fluency in both languages shall be paid a monthly differential of one <br />hundred seventy five ($175) above his or her then current base monthly salary step. <br />B. Any other member of this bargaining unit who works in a position where it has been <br />determined by the Police Chief that bilingual proficiency is essential to carry out <br />duties and responsibilities of a critical and /or emergency nature without ready access <br />to backup assistance, or positions where bilingual public contact is a major and <br />essential element of the work being performed shall be paid a monthly differential of <br />one hundred seventy five ($175) above his or her then current base monthly salary <br />step, upon certification by the Executive Director of Personnel Services that this <br />person has satisfactorily demonstrated conversational fluency in both languages. <br />12 <br />