HomeMy WebLinkAbout03-03-2004 Housing AuthorityEMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT
FOR
INYESTIGATOR SERif ICES
Agree:meixt made ~is ,~ day of ~0~5~,g ~ 2004 between the t-Sousing
Authority 9fthe City of Jeffersonville, Indiana (hereinafter "Ho~,;sing Authority"), and
the jeffersonville Board of Public Works and Safety on behalf oftke Jeffersonville Police
Department (hereinafter "Police Dept.").
WHERAS, the Housing Authority has received funding f~om the U.S. Department
of Housing and Urban Development (hereinafter "HUD"), for use in securing police
investigative services in the Housing Authority's family housing developments Lnown as
Greenwood, Northt0wn Terrace, and Fulton Terrace; and i:'
WHEREAS, the Police Dept. has numerous employees, who, through their
education and experience, possess the requisite skills to effectively Provide investigative
services at all of the Housing Authority's family housing developments; and
WHEREAS, the Housing ,Authority wants to engage the services of Police Dept.
smployees pursuant to the authority vested in the Housing Authority by HUD.
NOW, THEREFORE, for the reasons set forth above, and in consideration of the
mutual covenants and promises of the parties hereto, the Housing Authority and the
Police Dept. agree as follows:
1. The Housing Authority may employ a police officer employed by the Pokc
Dept. as an independent agent for the purposes stated herein. The Ho~sing
Authority is solely responsible for choosing the particular police officer it
wishes to hire for the purposes stated herein.
is subject,
2. This agreement and the employment of a police officer hereunder ' '
generally, to: 1) all applicable City of Jeffersonville ordinances, 2) all
applicable Indiar~a statutes, 3) the rules, regulations and policies of the
Jeffcrsonville Board of Public Works and Satkty and the Police Dept., 4)
applicable Federal statutes, 5) the rules and regulations of HUD and the
Housing Authority.
2 Serv;,ces provided by the Police Dept:
The Pol-'ce Dept. agrees that the services rendered by its police officer
:,mder this contract is in addkion to baseline police services and o'ther
: ervices provided under prior co~tracts between the Police Dept, and the
;qousing Authority. The Police Dept. agrees k will not reduce its currer~,t
level of baseline police services to the public housing dev~lopmcnts,
particularly in the areas cf community policing, patrol, criminal
investigations, records, dispatch and special operations.
The duties required of the police officer employed hereunder will be
rendered at the Greenwood, Northtown Terrace, and/ur Fulton Terrace
Housing Developments in Jeffersonville, Indiana, and at such other place
or places as the Housing Aut~,orky in good faith requkes as the interest
and needs of the Housing Authority require.
The Police Dept. will provide supervision, control and dkection of work
activities and assignments of police personnel, including disciplinary
actions. It is expressly understood that the Police Dept. will be
responsible for any injury to the officer, his/her property, or the Police
Dept.' s property while on the Housing Authority's property.
4. Services provided by the Housing Authority:
The Housing Authority will provide the police officer orientation and
a. familiarization with the public housing cormmnnities and with Housing
Authority rules and regutatio~s.
b. The Housing Authority will provide the Police Dept. with public housing
police activity forms for the Police officer to use in the provision ofdaity
workload data. These forms ar~: rtot intended to replace the Police Dept.'s
standard police report forms.
5. The Police Dept. and the Housing Authority agree to regularly evaluate the
services performed unde~ this contract and thek short-term and long-term
effects.
6. This Agreement shall terminate thirty (30) days after either party's receipt of
written notice of termination from the other party.
7. The Housing Authority will pay to the police officer whose services are
provided pursuant to this contract, in full payment for said officer's services
hereunder, compensa;:ion equal to that officer's overtime rate as a minimum Ln
accordance with the Fak Labor Standards Act, which compensation may not
exceed Thirty-two Dollars ($32.00) per hour. This compensation is payable
upon submission of a written claim and approval of said claim by the Housing
Authority. Tl~e police officer whose services are provided through the Police
Dept. pursuant to this contract will not be considered as having an employee
status with the Housip. g Authorky, and his/her relationship to the Housing
Authority is and wilt remain, during the periods of his/her employment
services hereunder, that of independ, ent contractor-
Nothing in this agreement may be construed to interfere with or otherwi.se
affect the rendering of services by the police officer whose services are
pro¥ided hereunder through the Police Dept. in accordance with l~is/her
independent trod professional jadgement. The Police Dept. will require ~d:~at
the police officer perform his/her services in a good and workmanlike maturer
and in accordance with generally accepted law enforcement practices.
No modification or waiver of this Agreement or of any covenant, condition or
provision herein contained is valid ~nless in writing and duly executed by'the
parties.
10. All Agreements and covenants herein are severable, and in the event a
competent court holds any of them invalid, t.his contract will be interpreted as
if such invalid Agreements or covenants were not contained hereba.
11.
This written Agreement embodies the whole agreement between the parties
and there are no inducements, promises, terms, conditions, or obligations
made or entered into by either the Housing Authority, or the Police Dept.
other than those contained herein.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement at
JeffersonviSe, Indiana, the day and year first above written.
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JEFFERSONVILLE HOUSING AUTHORIT
CITY OF JEFFERSONVILLE
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ut~ve Director
Robert L. Wa
Jr., Mayor
Member