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County consultant outlines multi-month overhaul of personnel policy and job descriptions; payroll outsourcing suggested

5532845 · August 5, 2025
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Dr. Cohen told commissioners he will draft a new personnel policy manual, job descriptions, performance appraisal tools, and a wage-and-salary study; he also recommended considering an outside payroll vendor and said contract execution would likely take 90 days or more.

County HR consultant Dr. Cohen briefed the Bourbon County Board of County Commissioners on an anticipated multi-step overhaul of personnel systems, beginning with a policy manual and moving sequentially to job descriptions, performance appraisals and a wage-and-salary review.

"I anticipate that we'll be talking about about 6 to 8 weeks for each one of the elements," Dr. Cohen said, describing a workflow in which he will…

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