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Fair Oaks Ranch council approves multiple personnel policy changes including Juneteenth holiday and unpaid-intern category
Summary
Council approved a resolution updating city personnel policies: adding Juneteenth as a recognized holiday, creating an unpaid intern employment category, clarifying rehire eligibility, adjusting minimum reporting/compensation for off-site work, and narrowing post-accident mandatory drug-testing criteria.
The Fair Oaks Ranch City Council on Sept. 4 approved a resolution amending the city's personnel policies to add several clarifications and new provisions, including recognizing Juneteenth as a city holiday and creating a new unpaid-intern employment category.
Assistant City Manager Jim Williams walked council through seven changes staff recommended as maintenance updates. He said the city would add an "eligibility for rehire" section to guide managers when considering former employees for rehiring and would add an unpaid-intern category to Chapter 4. Williams described a change to work-schedule rules that differentiates minimum-pay thresholds for employees who must return to a worksite from those who perform short remote actions: "So if they actually have to come back to the shop, then they get the 2 hours minimum pay. But if they're at home, they'll get paid in 15-minute increments." Williams corrected a verbal slip during his presentation.
Council also approved adding Juneteenth to the city's recognized holidays. Williams told the council finance estimated the fiscal impact as "negligible, about $5,300," because police staffing practices already pay officers holiday pay on schedule.
A substantive safety-policy change narrows the triggers for mandatory post-accident drug and alcohol tests. Williams said staff proposed removing property damage as, by itself, a trigger for mandatory testing and instead retaining injury and reasonable-suspicion criteria. "We were finding that they're not intoxicated. It was just an accident," Williams said, explaining the operational concerns and costs tied to automatic testing and paid administrative leave.
The council unanimously approved the resolution on staff recommendation. Williams said staff will publish the updates, provide staff training and continue regular maintenance updates to the personnel manual.
Actions: Council approved a resolution to amend the personnel policies as presented; implementation will include policy publication and staff training.
