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Employees must receive department director approval before taking vacation leave. Orientation Period employees may not use vacation leave unless otherwise authorized by the city administrator. Employees taking more than two (2) consecutive weeks of vacation or a combination of vacation and compensatory time must obtain prior approval from the city administrator. The city will make every effort to grant vacation time as requested, but reserves the right to deny or approve vacation schedules. Regular, full-time and regular, part-time employees may carry up to 240 hours of unused vacation forward from one year to the next. Employees will maintain their ability, per City Council action on June 7, 2010, to annually carry forward vacation hours at twice their annual accrual rate until December 31, 2015. Sick Leave Sick leave is not a privilege or vested right that an employee may use at his/her discretion. Eligible employees may use sick leave only for the following: 1. Personal illness or injury; 2. To attend medical and dental appointments; 3. To care for sick dependentsfamily members; 4. To take dependents family members to medical and dental appointments; 5. Up to five days per calendar month to care for seriously ill family members who may not live with the employee. For purposes of this provision, "seriously ill" shall be determined at the sole discretion of the city administrator;.. 6. Safety Leave—Employees may use sick leave for reasonable absences to provide or receive assistance because they, or a family member, is a victim of sexual assault, domestic abuse, or stalking. For the purpose of this section, family member is defined as the employee's stepchild, biological, adopted or foster child, adult children, spouse, sibling, parent, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchild, grandparent, and stepparent. -Sick leave use for the employee's adult children, spouse, sibling, parent, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchild, grandparent, and stepparent is limited to 160 hours (combined) in a 12-month period. -The 12 months begins on the first day the employee uses leave for this purpose. -Stepchild, biological, adopted or foster child not subject to the 160 hours limit must be under 18 years of age or under 20 years of age if still attending secondary school. Paid sick leave is provided for regular, full-time and on a prorated basis for eligible part- time employees. Regular, full-time employees accrue sick leave at a rate of eight (8) working hours for each calendar month. To be eligible, part-time employees must work a set schedule with a minimum of forty (40) hours per biweekly pay period. Temporary and seasonal employees are not eligible for sick leave. There is no limit on the amount of accrued sick time that can be accumulated and carried forward from one year to the next. Employees must notify their immediate supervisor at least thirty (30) minutes before the start of their regular start time if s/he intends to be absent from work. If an emergency 15