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Trustees ask legal review and table personnel-manual changes after debate over drug, work‑day and confidentiality rules
Summary
Trustees reviewed a proposed update to the village personnel manual, pressing staff to tighten drug-and-alcohol language, clarify the definition of ‘workday’ and add closed‑session confidentiality language; the board voted to table the ordinance to allow legal review and redrafting.
Trustee Russ Smith urged the Board to strengthen the village’s drug‑free workplace policy after an incident involving a police officer, saying the manual’s current language needs to be tightened and that termination should be a possible consequence for violations.
“Termination of employment should take place” if an employee is caught violating the policy, Smith said during the Jan. 13 meeting, while also requesting counsel to review whether…
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