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Council approves Ellsworth Public Library personnel changes to mirror city ordinance
Summary
Council voted to adopt amendments to the Ellsworth Public Library personnel ordinance to reflect changes previously made to the city’s chapter 34 personnel code; the council treated the change as an agreement rather than a city ordinance.
The City Council voted to approve amendments to the Ellsworth Public Library personnel ordinance to align it with recent changes to the City of Ellsworth Code of Ordinances, Chapter 34 (personnel).
Library representatives and staff said the library’s personnel document is not itself a city ordinance but an internal personnel agreement and therefore the council adopted the changes as an "agreement." Council discussion focused on whether the item required formal ordinance language or should be handled administratively. Councilor discussion produced a friendly amendment to adopt the item as an agreement rather than an ordinance; the amendment was accepted and the measure passed unanimously.
Nut graf: The adoption updates library personnel language so local library policies mirror city-wide personnel changes already enacted in chapter 34.
Details: The council noted there were no substantive changes to library personnel policies beyond harmonizing chapter references. The vote was recorded as unanimous; no dissenting comments were made on the council record.
