Ordinance committee advances changes to county nursing-home language, harassment policy and purchasing code; local-preference debate to be clarified

The ordinance committee reviewed multiple chapters of the county code and approved technical and substantive edits, including: changing references to the county nursing home in Chapter 35, adding reporting/contact language to the anti-harassment policy in Chapter 39, incorporating the responsible-bidder language into the purchasing code (Chapter 41) for executive-committee consideration, advancing the county lobbyist registration chapter (Chapter 42), and reviewing Chapter 43 on code enforcement. On Chapter 35, staff proposed replacing references to the facility name Sunny Hill with the generic term "county nursing home" to avoid the need to amend the ordinance if the facility name changes; the committee approved the changes as amended and forwarded them for further processing. Committee discussion clarified that the medical director language was changed…