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Commissioners and department heads agree to separate employee conduct rules from standards for elected officials
Summary
After a lengthy work session with department heads, commissioners agreed to remove references to elected officials from the proposed county standards-of-conduct policy and asked the civil division and HR to rework an employee-focused version for adoption; a separate process will consider any code for elected officials.
Commissioner (Speaker 1) opened a work session to solicit department-head input on a draft Utah County standards-of-conduct policy that had been circulated this week. The draft prompted concern from several department chiefs and elected department heads that parts of the proposed policy overlap or conflict with state law and that some provisions (for example, sanctions or concepts like 'insubordination') do not fit the legal status of elected officials.
Anthony Canto, county surveyor, told the commission the draft…
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