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Council grants selective hiring‑freeze exemptions to coroner, highway, health and clerk offices
Summary
The council approved several department requests to exempt specific positions from the county hiring freeze — a part‑time coroner deputy (permanent), a highway truck driver, a public‑health nurse, and a replacement phones clerk — while asking staff to come back for further approvals if vacancies recur within probationary periods.
Monroe County Council considered multiple department requests to exempt individual positions from the county’s hiring freeze and approved all four requests, but with council oversight emphasized for repeat vacancies.
Coroner Jeff Hall asked to convert an on‑call reserve deputy (with service since 2017) to a paid part‑time deputy so the office can cover a deputy out on medical leave; council granted the request after questions about pay structure and whether additional hires were needed. "This individual has been with our office since 2017…he's already had five…
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