§ 2-230.11. Pagers.

(a) Employees assigned a pager shall be responsible to reimburse the city for pages in excess of the maximum allowed by the department.

(b) Alphanumeric pages are legally public record and will be monitored to ensure compliance with city policy.

(1) Alphanumeric pages will not contain language which is political, slanderous, controversial, critical of any person or entity, or which contains vulgar language, references to sexual matters or is otherwise inappropriate.

(2) Neither alphanumeric nor numeric pages should be used for personal reasons except when it is important that the employee communicate with another employee at work about a personal matter and another method of communication would take time away from the employee's work. Alphanumeric pages will not to be used for "chit-chat," telling jokes and communicating personal information unless it is necessary.

(3) The city manager, or the city manager's designee, will determine when this section is being violated.

(Ord. No. 2001-08, § 1, 6-19-01)