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Kuna council approves updated personnel policy, expands drug-testing rule and adds social media policy
Summary
The Kuna City Council approved updates to the city personnel policy that add a formal employee reporting structure, broaden random drug testing beyond safety positions, create a social media policy, and remove an annually updated step-and-grade chart; the council also approved a $650 contingency to pay a council member's AIC Leadership Academy fee.
The Kuna City Council unanimously approved a revised personnel policy and related resolution during its meeting. Nancy Stauffer, the city’s human resources director, described multiple changes that staff said clarify conduct and reimbursement rules and reduce administrative maintenance of the policy.
"We added the reporting structure to employee conduct, which that way all employees know you go to your lead first, your supervisor first, your director, unless they're the issue, then you can raise it above," Nancy Stauffer, Human Resources Director, said when summarizing the update. She also said the policy expands the city’s random drug-testing program from safety-only positions to all employees, citing a 3% state insurance fund incentive for having a random testing program.
Stauffer outlined other changes: clarifying education and certification reimbursement eligibility so training with networking components is evaluated for job relevance before reimbursement; adding a new social media policy; removing the step-and-grade chart so the policy will not require an annual administrative update; and clarifying safety equipment reimbursement to be tied to date of purchase rather than date of hire. Council members asked whether the changes affected compensation or disciplinary authority; Stauffer said they did not.
In the same discussion, the council approved a $650 contingency payment so a council member could attend the Association of Idaho Cities (AIC) Leadership Academy. "Request amount is $650," a council member stated during the item. City Clerk Nathan Stanley said he will add a budget line for council training in the next fiscal year to make future training requests routine.
The council moved and approved the personnel resolution after council discussion and acknowledgment that each member would receive a copy of the 2026 policy. The action was recorded as a motion and carried by the council.
