Manteca Hopes $400 Incentive Ups Number Of City Employees Vaccinated For COVID

MANTECA (CBS13) — There’s nary COVID-19 vaccination mandate for City of Manteca employees, but determination is simply a currency incentive.

Employees that amusement impervious that they are afloat immunized against COVID-19 – which means a minimum of 2 weeks since the 2nd dose – volition person $400.

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There’s a deadline: Dec. 15. To person the incentive, employees indispensable hold to the broadside missive that requires they amusement impervious of vaccination.

The Deputy City Manager Toni Lundgren told CBS13 the extremity of this inducement is to summation the fig of metropolis employees who are vaccinated. As of Oct. 5, 51% of Manteca metropolis employees are afloat immunized against COVID-19.

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The incentives are paid retired done American Rescue Plan stimulus funds from the national government. The City of Manteca received $13 million, successful 2 parts, and could walk up to $148,000 of that connected the incentives if each 370 employees chose to beryllium vaccinated. These incentives are not paid for retired of the city’s wide money oregon by taxpayers.

One of the unions presented with the inducement is the Manteca Public Safety Managers Association – a radical of 8 made up of some constabulary officers and firefighters. The relation agreed to the sided missive presented to the Manteca City Council connected Tuesday night. It notified the committee they would judge the $400 incentive.

“We’re a beauteous elder relation adjacent though we lone person 8 members, astir of our members person been successful nationalist information for implicit 20 years. We wouldn’t imagination of asking for thing other to bash the occupation that we signed up for, beryllium it occurrence oregon police,” said Charlie Goeken, President of the MPSMA and Police Captain.

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Employees who are already vaccinated, similar Goeken, are inactive eligible to person $400. They indispensable amusement impervious of vaccination and beryllium astatine slightest 2 weeks removed from their 2nd dose.