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Council debates personnel and pay classification ordinance; seeks outside legal review on job-description authority
Summary
Council read a draft personnel and pay classification ordinance and spent extensive time debating whether job descriptions, qualifications and civil-service status should be adopted by ordinance or remain an executive responsibility; council approved seeking a second legal opinion.
The Shepherdsville City Council conducted a lengthy review of a proposed personnel and pay-rate classification ordinance that would set minimum and maximum base pay rates, authorized staffing levels and related classification details for city employees.
The ordinance author (sponsored by Council member Brad Whitaker) establishes positions, pay ranges and authorized staffing levels for administrative, public works, wastewater, fire and police departments. Council members and staff spent much of the meeting debating whether the ordinance should include detailed job descriptions, qualifications and other classification elements or whether that level of detail is an executive function…
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