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Commissioners approve overtime pay for flood-response staff, authorize sweeping grant pursuit
Summary
The court voted to pay nonexempt county employees overtime for July flood response and authorized the grant coordinator to pursue disaster recovery grants, including animal-shelter relief; the judge added disaster declaration DR-4879-TX to the overtime order and staff will rerun payroll to expedite payment.
Kendall County commissioners voted July 22 to pay overtime to nonexempt county staff who worked during the July flooding and to authorize the county’s grant coordinator to apply for time-sensitive disaster funding.
The county judge moved to approve paying overtime (rather than only comp time) to nonexempt employees who responded to the July 4 flood. Auditor and HR staff explained the county’s existing disaster policy (adopted October 2023) allows the court to order overtime pay for nonexempt employees; exempt employees would require a separate two-step order (authorize accrual of comp time…
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