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Committee reviews personnel policies including parental leave and city-administrator role; action on parental leave withdrawn
Summary
The committee discussed updates to personnel policies—highlighting parental leave language for foster/adoption and FMLA interplay—and debated proposed changes to the city-administrator ordinance and whether to preserve the administrator/safety-director combination; a motion to recommend parental-leave updates was later rescinded for further work.
The committee reviewed a set of proposed personnel-policy updates and debated changes to the city-administrator ordinance, including whether the administrator role should remain in its current form or shift toward a manager model and how public-safety leadership should be structured.
Staff framed the policy review as an update that would benefit from employee and supervisor input rather than immediate action. The chief and other staff raised a particular concern about parental-leave language: how the policy treats fostering and adoption enrollment…
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