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Select Board suspends section 8(e) of personnel policy and will review remaining policy later
Summary
The Select Board voted to suspend section 8(e) of the town personnel policy and to continue reviewing the rest of the personnel policy at a later date.
The Select Board voted to suspend section 8(e) of the town personnel policy and agreed to continue reviewing the personnel policy at a later meeting.
A board member moved to suspend section 8(e) and continue review of the remaining policy at a later date. The board then asked members to cast their votes. One member recorded, “I vote yes when that passed at 06:59.” The motion to suspend section 8(e) carried.
Members had previously raised several points while reviewing the personnel policy, including that portions of the policy assume a 40‑hour workweek while some full‑time positions currently work 38.4 hours, and questions about uniform and dress standards and department discretion. Board members said the annual policy review requirement in the Select Board policy should drive a more systematic examination going forward.
Staff were directed to note the suspension of section 8(e) in the policy document and to place continued personnel‑policy review on a future agenda so members can propose and deliberate specific amendments.
The board did not adopt other substantive amendments to the personnel policy at this meeting; discussion of the remaining sections was deferred.
