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Yelm study session reviews personnel‑policy edits, committee assignments, mayor pro‑tem selection and retreat plans

Yelm City Council · January 8, 2026
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City staff outlined about 10 edits to the personnel policy including lactation accommodations, telework language and updates to family‑leave language; council also discussed committee assignments, the mayor pro‑tem nomination procedure and plans for a spring retreat with a potential external facilitator.

YELM — At its Jan. 6 study session the Yelm City Council received staff briefings on personnel policy changes, internal and external committee assignments, the process for naming a mayor pro tem and preliminary retreat planning.

Personnel policy: Staff said the personnel manual updates are largely language modernizations and compliance updates and include roughly 10 proposed edits. Speaker 1 summarized the scope: "we came up with about 10 edits that we will need to make…

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