PUEBLO — Pueblo County approved a formal employee recognition award policy Thursday that establishes employee-of-the-month honors, group awards, community-service recognition and an on-the-spot “star” award to recognize staff contributions.

Director Cresswell, who presented the item, said the policy “has been working on for actually quite a while” and described award categories including employee-of-the-month, community-service awards, group awards and a “star” on-the-spot recognition that can be given peer-to-peer or supervisor-to-employee.

The county manager and commissioners praised the policy as a way to boost staff morale and public service culture. The record shows the item completed first and second reading and union review before final approval.

Action taken: The board moved, seconded and approved item 4b by voice vote; the transcript records “All in favor, say aye” and “Motion passes.”

What was not specified: The policy implementation details such as the physical location of an employee-recognition wall were discussed but not finalized in the meeting record; budget or reward amounts, nomination procedures and frequency were not specified in the transcript.