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6.1.2 Alternative Work Schedules for Fire Prevention Personnel 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", "4/9/4", "4/10" or flexible start and stop times. 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 only be approved 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 altemative 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. Paramedics may trade with non-paramedic personnel if such trade does not drop either City below paramedic minimum staffing as stated in the MOU. Except as approved by the Fire Chief as provided under Section 16.6 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. Requests for exchanges of on-duty time shall be submitted per G.O.# (). 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, who are working on-duty as part of an exchange of time, are not considered on the payroll for hours worked purposes 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. 6.3 Shift and Station Assignments Assignment to a specific shift and/or station shall be made through the bid system. Bids shall be made in descending order of rank beginning with the rank of captain. Within each rank, bids shall be made by seniority. Shift and/or station openings shall be posted on all station bulletin boards and filled through the bidding procedure described in this paragraph. Station bidding shall be on a rank for rank basis, in descending order of rank seniority. A "Mutual" is an agreement between two individuals of the same rank to trade Station and/or shift assignments for a certain amount of time. Mutuals can be between individuals on the same shift or on