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Community Service 2012 VILLAGE OF NORTH PALM BEACH STUDENT COMMUNITY SERVICE POLICY I. PURPOSE Student Volunteer Community Service for the Village of North Palm Beach provides important benefits to our local residents and local community. Many local students are required to work a certain number of school-required community service hours each year. The Village provides a full range of municipal services including Community Development, Parks and Recreation, Library, Police, Fire and Public Works (including sanitation). The Village also manages the North Palm Beach Country Club which includes a Jack Nicklaus designed golf course.In the spirit of community service, support and interest, the Village thankfully offers a Community Service Program to local students. II. POLICY The Village of North Palm Beachhereby establishes a Student Volunteer Community Service Program. This program will be managed by the Human Resources Director in conjunction with all Department Directors. This policy is not designed to replace current staff or eliminate necessary functions of paid employees, but is designed to supplement and complement existing staff. Availability of volunteer opportunities is not guaranteed, but will be accommodated whenever possible. Volunteers must belocal Village residents, the children of local Village residents, or the children of Village employees. School identification must be provided in order to prove student status. No more than 20 hours of community volunteer service may be worked by a volunteer during an established Village work week (Sunday - Saturday). III. PROCEDURE Interested volunteers must submit a completed Application for Student Volunteer Community Service(Attachment A) to the Village Human Resources Department at 501 U.S. Highway One, North Palm Beach, Florida, 33408, FAX (561) 848-3344. Applications can be obtained at the Village Administration Office or on the web at www.village-npb.org. The Human Resources Department will screen all applications and forward to the appropriate Department Headsto determine if there are any appropriate volunteer opportunities available. Human Resources will then contact the selected candidates to notify them of the available opportunity. All volunteers and a parent or guardian will be required to sign a notarized Student Volunteer Community Service Release Form (Attachment B) and track all hours worked on a Student Volunteer Community Service Time Sheet Report (Attachment C). EXAMPLES OF WORK Pick up debris and clean in and around shop areas, office buildings, parks, roadways, canals and parking lots using shovels, pitchforks and other hand tools. Park Maintenance, including planting, mowing, watering, repair of irrigation systems, cleaning of buildings and park structures. Light landscaping assistance along swales and canals using rakes, shovels, small hand-tools. Performs facility and custodial maintenance as needed including trash collection and removal. Light administrative duties. Special events assistance, set-up and tear down equipment. Cleaning of Village Equipment. Other work may be assigned as required including light general repairs, work under adverse conditions, maintaining grounds and structures at various locations or other assignments required by the Village. IV. PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an volunteerto successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the volunteer may be required to engage in the following activities: sitting, standing, walking, climbing, crouching, crawling, stooping, kneeling or balancing; reaching with arms; using hands and fingers to handle, feel, or operate objects, tools or controls; talking, hearing and smelling. The volunteer must occasionally lift and/or move up to 80 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. V. WORK ENVIRONMENT While performing the duties of this position, the volunteer works in outdoor conditions, near and on machinery, or in high precarious places. The volunteerwill likely be exposed to hot/dry/wet/ humid/cold conditions. The volunteer will occasionally be exposed to fumes, airborne particles, chemicals, vibration and other potential hazards associated with the maintenance and/or construction of roads and drainage works and other types of construction. Manual dexterity is necessary in order to manipulate machinery and tools. The noise level in the work environment is quiet to moderate, but can be high under certain circumstances. Hand-to-eye coordination is necessary to operate various tools and equipment. VI. AT-WILL This program has been created and formulated specifically for local student volunteers. All volunteers are considered at-will voluntary workers. All volunteer hours performed will be worked strictly on an unpaid basis, with no exceptions. The Village expressly reserves the right to discharge any volunteers for any reason, with or without cause, and without notice. Nothing in this policy confers the right to any volunteer to continue with this program. Participation in this program does not constitute employee status for any volunteer.