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8.5 Bilingual Pay Effective the first full pay period after July 1, 2014 (July 5, 2014), the City will establish a Bilingual Pay program. The City agrees to pay a premium of fifty dollars ($50.00)per pay period to employees with bilingual skills,who occupy positions where the City has determined said skills are necessary or desired to serve the Pleasanton community. Qualifying languages for bilingual assignment include: • Spanish • Mandarin • Any foreign language as determined by the City ® American Sign Language (ASL) Upon written recommendation of the Department Head, Human Resources may approve a bilingual assignment once the employee has undergone appropriate testing and been certified as bilingual. The City reserves the right to terminate a bilingual assignment when it is determined that the need for such assignment no longer exists. Section 9. Standby Time Standby time is that amount of specific and predetermined time that an employee is required to be on call in addition to the normal work day and shall be compensated at a rate of pay equal to twenty(20)hours of pay for each seven(7) day period spent on standby. The hours of daily standby duty for water division employees and sanitary sewer division employees shall be 3:30 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. The requirement that employees in the classification of Utilities Systems Operator I and Utilities Systems Operator II work standby shall be set forth in the job descriptions of such classifications. Response time for emergency call outs for the classifications of Utilities Systems Operator I and Utilities Systems Operator II shall be extended from 30 minutes or less during standby duties to 45 minutes or less during standby duties on a one year trial basis. Emergency call out information(at a minimum but not limited to: time of call, time for response and type of incident)will be gathered during the one year trial and examined by a committee of Utilities Management members and Utilities Systems Operators., including at least one union representative from Utilities,to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of the emergency call back program. The data and committee recommendations will be presented to the Director of Operations Services no later than May 31, 2017. The Director will determine if the change will be adopted as permanent., extended or terminated. The Director's written determination will be provided to the committee and the Union no later than June 30, 2017. The Director's decision will be final. -15 -