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Finance committee recommends HR policy updates, attorney agreement and ambulance consortium resolution
Summary
The Finance and Personnel Committee recommended several updated HR policies, approval of an attorney services agreement, and added the city to an ambulance consortium with Gold Cross; the committee forwarded the 2025 budget ordinance to council.
The Finance and Personnel Committee recommended approval of four updated human resources policies and forwarded several agreements and the 2025 budget ordinance to the full council.
Human resources and payroll coordinator Stephanie Stylen presented four policies to the committee: updates to the standby-pay and call-in policies reflecting contractual changes, a limited telecommuting policy, and an updated hiring policy that replaced outdated language. The committee voted to approve and forward the policies to council.
Administrator Chad Hurth reviewed a new attorney agreement that included additional compensation for trial time; the committee recommended the council approve the agreement with Wolf River Lawyers SC.
Committee members also considered an ambulance service arrangement with Gold Cross. The city's membership in a larger consortium was described as keeping the city's cost nearly flat while adding an ambulance to the consortium's coverage. Committee materials explained that a resolution is required across participating communities to allow a single community to increase its levy to cover ambulance cost increases. The Finance and Personnel Committee moved and recommended the council approve the ambulance resolution.
Why it matters: the HR policy updates affect employee pay and work arrangements; the attorney agreement changes how the city will pay for legal services that go to trial; ambulance consortium membership and the associated resolution affect emergency medical service funding and whether the city may increase its levy for ambulance costs.
Discussion versus action: the committee heard presentations and approved motions to forward the policies, attorney agreement, ambulance resolution and the 2025 budget ordinance to the council. The transcript records committee approval and a recommendation to the council; the full council later voted on the budget ordinance and the attorney agreement at the council meeting.
