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• The partner cities and the LPFD can offer City employees, including Fire Prevention personnel, alternative work schedules. Such work schedules may be a "9/80", "4/10" or flexible start and end times of the work day. The Fire Chief will detennine the availability of alternative work schedules which may include the start and end times of the work day, available flex days off, and lunch periods. Fire Prevention personnel may bid the schedules established by the Fire Chief based on seniority. Alternative work schedules can only be offered under three conditions: A. Any such schedule must meet all City and representative payroll department policies in place. B. Any such schedule can be approved only if it does not negatively impact Fire Prevention Bureau customer service. As currently allowed under both partner city's City Manager regulations, customer service impacts and alternative work schedule approval is by final determination of the Fire Chief as Department Head. C. In small work units such as Fire Prevention, the Fire Chief will make alternative work schedules available equally to all Local 1974 represented personnel. If that cannot be done, or if one team member protests the impacts of some personnel having alternative work schedules, the Fire Chief will rotate the availability of alternative work schedules by seniority, per City payroll policy, or cancel their use all together. 6.2 Exchanges of On-Duty Time Exchanges of on-duty time shall be permitted between employees of the same rank. Except as approved by the Fire Chief as provided under Section 16.7 exchanges of on-duty time shall not be permitted to substitute for, extend, or supplement sick leave, long-term disability or worker's compensation benefits. There shall be no limit to the number of exchanges per month. The employees involved in the exchange shall make arrangements for the pay back of time. Employees may not use trades to alter or change their work schedule. A member owing trades as the result of a promotion may work in their former position in order to repay the trade(s), i.e. an engineer may work as a Firefighter, and a Captain may work as a Firefighter or an Engineer depending on the rank from which he/she was promoted. The time limit for resolving owed trades is 90 calendar days from the date of promotion. Employees, who are working on-duty as part of an exchange of time, are not considered on the payroll for hours worked for the purpose of accumulated hours under the FLSA. If the employee who assumes responsibility for working an exchange of on-duty time fails to report for duty, he/she will be charged vacation time equivalent to the time he/she agreed to work. Trades can be cancelled at any time,provided it is done before staffing is filled 6 days prior to the shift. If an employee cancels a trade inside the 6 days, he/she must call and notify the on-duty chief officer. Employees are allowed a maximum of 6 trade cancellations per calendar year inside the 6 days. 6.3 Shift and Station Assignments 8