Committee approves renaming 'Personnel' to 'Human Resources' and seeks legal language to change street-sweeping ordinance

Two administrative items moved forward at the ordinance meeting: (1) the committee approved an order to update ordinance references from "Personnel" to "Human Resources" and asked the law department to make the textual changes; (2) the committee asked the law department to prepare proposed language amending traffic/sweeping ordinances to reflect a revised downtown street-sweeping day and clearer enforcement language.

Personnel Director Kelly told the committee the change from "Personnel" to "Human Resources" modernizes departmental naming and requires straightforward, non-substantive updates across multiple ordinance sections; the law department had already identified the places where the name change is needed. The committee voted to forward that textual name change.

On street sweeping (item 11), the committee heard that DPW and contractor Veolia worked with the mayor’s office to re-sign and re-post downtown no-parking street-sweeping notices (including English and Spanish signs) and that moving the scheduled downtownday from Friday to Thursday improves cleaning and coordination. The committee asked the law department to draft ordinance language to clarify street-sweeping schedules and restrictions to support enforcement and public notice.

Next steps: the law department will supply the formal ordinance language for both the department-name updates and the street-sweeping amendments; the street-sweeping language will return to the ordinance committee for public hearing and vote.