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Council amends recruitment policy to allow moving-expense reimbursement up to $10,000 for candidates over 100 miles away
Summary
The council amended its recruitment and selection policy to permit reimbursement of moving expenses (up to $10,000) for candidates who live more than 100 miles from Green Bay, and extended eligibility to director-level and hard-to-fill positions. Director Olson said benchmarking showed local reimbursements ranging from $2,000 to $12,000.
The Green Bay Common Council approved an amendment to the city’s recruitment and selection policy to allow moving-expense reimbursement of up to $10,000 for candidates who live more than 100 miles from Green Bay.
Alder Grant proposed the amendment to add a 100-mile threshold for reimbursement and to extend the $10,000 reimbursement authority to director-level and hard-to-fill positions. "I want a motion to amend the recruitment and selection policy section 6.8 to include a requirement that moving expenses may only be paid for candidates living more than 100 miles from Green Bay," Alder Grant said.
Director Olson told the council staff had benchmarked local municipalities and found reimbursements ranging from $2,000 to $12,000 and said the policy would retain a requirement that any reimbursement over $10,000 be returned to the personnel committee for approval. Olson described the $10,000 figure as a reimbursement cap rather than a flat payment and said reimbursements are processed with receipts.
Council members raised questions about oversight, receipts, and whether the change would apply broadly or on a case-by-case basis; several members said discretion lies with department directors and the personnel committee for outlier requests. The amendment was adopted and the council subsequently approved the recruitment policy change as amended.
Council members said the intent was to help fill a long-open assistant director position in the Department of Public Works and other hard-to-fill roles by allowing timely offers during a national search process.
The meeting record indicates the policy change was adopted at the March 17 meeting; details about exact reimbursement procedures and reporting were referenced as remaining subject to staff processes and later oversight by the personnel committee if amounts exceed $10,000.
