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Schererville council adopts corrected personnel policy ordinance (Ordinance 2033A)
Summary
The Town Council unanimously adopted Ordinance 2033A, repealing earlier personnel ordinances and replacing them with a consolidated personnel policy; a correction removed language in the fire-department section that would have limited sleep-period pay.
The Schererville Town Council on Feb. 11 adopted Ordinance 2033A, which repeals multiple prior personnel ordinances and replaces them with a consolidated personnel policy.
Town Manager Jim Gorman explained the change and said the council had identified an erroneous paragraph in the fire-department section that would have allowed pay to be reduced for firefighters based on sleeping-period monitoring. "It was something to do with the sleeping quarters," Gorman said of the corrected language; the provision that would have allowed reducing pay for time firefighters were asleep during a 24-hour shift was removed. He said the revised ordinance aligns the fire-department section with the town's longstanding practice.
Councilmembers asked clarifying questions about which previous ordinances were being repealed; Gorman said the intent was to have a single personnel policy rather than multiple scattered updates. After discussion the council moved, seconded and adopted Ordinance 2033A by a 5-0 vote.
The ordinance replaces earlier numbered personnel provisions, consolidates policy language and addresses the single identified correction in the fire-department pay language. The council recorded the vote as unanimous and moved on to other agenda items.
