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APPENDIX B <br />A. PURPOSE <br />The purpose of the personal physical fitness standards and testing program is to promote physical fitness of lail <br />Corrections and Security Deputies Officers within the Kittitas County Sheriff's Office, and to specify the scheduling, <br />conduct and administration of semi-annual physical fitness tests. <br />B. PARTICIPATION <br />Enrollment and par[icipation in the physical fitness testing program shall be optional at the election of the <br />employee. Current bargaining unit employees who elect not to enroll and parlicipate in the program shall not be <br />eligible for the monetary incentive described below. <br />Current employees may elect at any time to enroll, participate, and test under the Program. Upon passing the <br />applicable testing standards the employee shall receive the monetary fitness incentive described below' <br />The Employer will not discriminate against any employee for exercising any option to enroll and participate, or not <br />to enroll or parficipate, in the program. <br />C. ADMINISTRATION OF THE PHYSICAL FITNESS TESTING <br />The physical fitness ability testing will be conducted twice each year, in April and october. Participating employees <br />will be notified at least thirty (30) days in advance of the specific testing date, time, and location. The Employer <br />may select months other than those specified above, provided the two annual testing dates are at least six (6) <br />months apart, and shall provide participating employees at least thirty (30) days advance notice of the date, time, <br />and location of the test. <br />All participating employees must make themselves available on the scheduled test dates. Deputies Officers shall <br />be on on-duty status during the examination (testing) process but shall receive no overtime or extra compensation <br />for the time spent taking the examination. Employees who are ill or injured on the date of any scheduled test may <br />request an alternate test date, by providing medical documentation of their condition. A request for an alternate <br />test date must be made sufficiently in advance of the test date, so the Employer can fairly and fully consider and <br />schedule any requested alternate test date. Last hour requests will not be considered. The Sheriff shall make the <br />final decision regarding the granting of an alternate test date' <br />Employees who have an emergent or extraordinary schedule conflict with the announced test date may request <br />an alternate date. The reason(s) for the request must be presented to the sheriff in writing at least five (5) days <br />before the test date. The Sheriff shall make the final decision regarding the granting of an alternate test date. <br />The testing will be administered by members of the Command Staff from the Kittitas County Sheriff's Office. <br />D. TESTING RESUITS <br />Those employees who elect to enroll and participate in the program, and who have achieved a passing score on <br />each semi-annual test, shall be entitled to receive the fitness incentive pay described in the contract. lf such <br />employees do not achieve passing score on any semi-annual test, such employee shall not receive, and shall not <br />be eligible to receive, any fitness incentive pay until a passing score is achieved, but in no event shall such employee <br />be entitled to receive any such fitness incentive pay until the next succeeding scheduled semi-annual test is <br />cond ucted.