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Committee reviews comp-time caps, allows public-safety accrual to 60 hours under emergency rules
Summary
Members reviewed language in the personnel manual that allows public-safety employees to accumulate up to 60 hours of compensatory time during an emergency and discussed requirements to reduce excess comp time.
Committee members reviewed and clarified compensatory-time (comp time) limits and handling for public-safety staff. Speaker 2 read from the draft manual that general employees can accrue up to 24 hours of comp time and that, in a public-safety emergency, employees may accumulate up to 60 hours. Speaker 2 said the manual requires that if an employee exceeds the maximum, the excess must be reduced by 20 hours within a 30-day period.
Members discussed operational implications. Speaker 2 said allowing 60 hours for police and fire during emergencies could require departments to schedule time off to reduce balances and could create overtime pay impacts. Speaker 3 asked whether converting comp time to paid overtime for certain departments (for example, sheriff—s office) was addressed in the draft; Speaker 2 replied the manual treats public-safety exceptions specially but that scheduling to work down balances is left to departments.
No formal change was adopted; members asked staff to clarify the comp-time paragraphs and to explain how the policy would interact with department payroll practices in the next draft.
