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shall receive an additional 1/2 time for the time they work on such holiday.All holidays specified in this paragraph will be paid in dollars, rather than time accumulation. An EMPLOYEE who is required to work overtime on a holiday shall receive pay at two(2) times the EMPLOYEES base pay rate for that time worked in addition to their regular shift. 17.4 Excluding the Floating Holiday,e-Each EMPLOYEE shall have the option to sell any or all of his/her holiday hours back to the EMPLOYER at his/her current rate of pay.This holiday buy back option may be taken during two time periods annually:January 1 through January 151 and November 1 through November 15.In any event,no holiday hours shall carry over to the next year. 17.5 EMPLOYEES who leave employment prior to December 31 st will only be paid for unused holiday hours from holidays that occurred prior to the termination date. The Floating Holiday will not be paid and must be used prior to termination or it will be forefeited. EMPLOYEES who use holiday hours or receive compensation for holiday hours before the holiday occurs and leave employment prior to December 31 St,must pay the City back holiday hours for any holiday that has not occurred prior to the termination date. Funds owed to the City must be paid prior to ending the employment relationship. ARTICLE EIGHTEEN(18) FITNESS-ON-DUTY 18.1 The purpose of this Article is to give each Officer the option to exercise while on duty. This is a voluntary Fitness-on-Duty program which provides an opportunity for EMPLOYEES engaged in stressful and somewhat sedentary jobs an opportunity to: 1) Improve job performance,2)Reduce health risks,3)Reduce job-related injuries,4)Reduce absenteeism,and 5)Improve overall fitness. 18.2 This program is subject to the following terms and conditions: The EMPLOYEE will be given the option to work out one hour per shift.The average should not exceed six hours of workout time over two weeks.This option is available if allowed by shift's minimums set forth by the Chief of Police and call load. The workout time will consist to thirty minutes of the EMPLOYEES daily break time and up to thirty minutes of regular duty time. 18.3 EMPLOYEES will earn one hour of"training time off'for each fitness testing event the EMPLOYEE scores in the"excellent"range or above based on the EMPLOYEES'S age level category as determined by the Cooper Institute chart. Earned training time off will not exceed twelve hours per calendar year. 18.4 Any EMPLOYEE participating in the program will partake in semi-annual fitness testing. The standards for testing will be set by the fitness coordinator and approved by the Chief of Police.All participants will adhere to the department Physical Fitness Program policy and testing standards. 20