Willard managers and staff debate PTO, comp-time front-loading in handbook draft

Jul 7, 2026

City staff proposed consolidating leave into a single PTO/ETO bank, front-loading 160 hours for salary employees, and giving hourly employees an option to carry up to 40 hours comp time; council members discussed fairness between roles and asked staff for budget impact analysis.

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Staff presented a revised employee handbook that consolidates leave into a single PTO/ETO bucket and offers a front-loaded 160-hour comp-time bank for salary employees while allowing hourly staff the option to elect up to 40 hours of comp time to use within a year or be paid out at year-end. "That's currently what we allow for comp time for the salary employees is up to a 160," the staff presenter said when describing the proposal.

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