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Committee advances updated personnel policy manual to full council after staff briefing
Summary
The Finance & Administration Committee discussed a comprehensive rewrite of the city personnel policy manual—last revised in 2012—and agreed to forward the manual to the full council for consideration, with staff and unions given the opportunity to review specific provisions.
The Finance and Administration Committee on Sept. 22 discussed a comprehensive update to the city personnel policy manual and agreed to forward the new draft to the full City Council for consideration. Committee members and staff said the manual consolidates updated employment law provisions and city practices that had been handled piecemeal since the last full manual review in February 2012.
The personnel manual matters because it sets citywide rules on hiring, leave, travel reimbursements and workplace conduct that affect all municipal employees and, potentially, the city budget if statutory leave changes or new benefits require additional pay or staffing adjustments.
A staff presenter described the package as “a new personnel policy manual that I have been working on in collaboration with almost every person in the city,” and said the update includes policies adopted separately since 2012 plus newer statutory changes. The presenter told the committee…
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