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Finance committee reports updates to harassment, dress code and social media policies; annual training discussed
Summary
The finance committee briefed the council on revisions to several internal personnel policies, including the anti-harassment policy, and recommended an annual training and staff acknowledgement process; a formal training schedule was not yet finalized.
The Gardner City Council received a finance committee update on May 19 about revised internal personnel policies, including the city’s harassment policy, dress code, and social-media policies.
Councillor Hegland, reporting for the finance committee, said Director of Human Resources Morris led efforts to modernize policies that in some cases had been in place 15–20 years. The committee heard that the new policies were circulated to staff via e-mail during the city hall closure on the morning of May 9, but that there is not yet a finalized plan for formal training or signed acknowledgements of receipt.
Hegland said logistics remain to be worked out for training — for example, how to include employees without city e-mail addresses — but the committee and HR director discussed instituting an annual training and acknowledgement requirement. As an initial step the committee suggested a simple sign-off mechanism such as a Google form to document staff receipt and begin a rollout while a comprehensive solution is developed.
The council voted to place the communication on file; no formal city-wide training timetable or mandatory sign-off procedure was adopted at the May 19 meeting.
