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Decatur council presses staff for cost data as it debates holiday pay options for employees
Summary
Council spent the longest portion of the meeting debating two draft approaches to holiday and PTO policy: version A (holiday pay paid in-cycle, no banking) and version B (employee election/grandfathering). Chiefs said shift-work staffing, scheduling and incentives for working holidays require careful cost analysis; council asked staff to return with overtime and cost estimates.
The City of Decatur council devoted an extended discussion to proposed changes to the personnel policy (Chapter 4), focusing on holiday pay and paid-time-off (PTO) accruals as the city moves to 26 pay periods.
Staff presented two options: version A would pay holidays as they occur (pay-as-you-go), preventing employees from banking holiday hours; version B would let employees elect to keep the current banking model or move to the pay-as-you-go model (with new hires defaulting to…
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