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Soddy-Daisy commissioners approve personnel policy updates, hire firm to set up Industrial Development Board and OK police lighting
Summary
At a regularly scheduled April 2 meeting, the Soddy-Daisy Board of Commissioners unanimously approved revisions to the city’s personnel policy, authorized an engagement contract with Bass, Berry & Sims PLC to form an Industrial Development Board and approved $20,001.82 for police vehicle lighting; officials also noted the new courtroom’s completion and community events.
The Soddy-Daisy Board of Commissioners on April 2 unanimously approved a package of personnel-policy amendments, authorized an engagement contract to help form an Industrial Development Board and approved lighting kits for two new patrol vehicles, city officials said.
City Manager Burt Johnson said the city hired its first human-resources manager in September 2025 (Chip Harris) and that the proposed personnel-policy changes add consistent rules for all employees, create a progressive-discipline process, introduce a sick-leave policy to be monitored by department heads, and add tuition reimbursement and other revisions. "This is quite a policy," Mayor Coleman said. Vice‑Mayor Penney asked whether moonlighting rules would be made…
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