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Emmet County supervisors deny two personnel requests, approve tile intake premium increase and new hours rule
Summary
The Emmet County Board of Supervisors on May 26 denied increases to sheriff sick accrual and extended vacation after 20 years, approved a rule letting department heads set full-time-hour designations, and raised the tile intake premium to $0.50 an hour for full-time employees; a proposed longevity pay overhaul failed.
The Emmet County Board of Supervisors voted May 26 on several personnel-policy items, denying two staff requests while approving adjustments to how full-time hours are defined and increasing a tile-intake premium for full-time employees.
During consideration of suggestions filed May 19, the board voted unanimously to deny a request to increase monthly sick-day accrual for Sheriff department employees from 8 hours to 10 hours, a change proponents said would better match 10–12-hour shift patterns. The board also voted unanimously to deny a proposal to grant five weeks of vacation after 20 years of service.
The supervisors approved a motion, made by Vice-Chair Tim Schumacher and seconded by John Pluth, authorizing department heads to designate which hourly definition (40, 37.5, or 30) constitutes full time in individual job descriptions. The board said the change is intended to eliminate the current full-time pro-rate accounting process.
A multi-part debate followed over longevity pay scales and a higher tile intake premium for secondary roads employees. A motion by Supervisor John Pluth to double longevity pay for secondary roads and extend monthly longevity payments to several county job classes failed on a 3–2 vote (Pluth and Todd Glasnapp voted yes; Tim Schumacher, Jeff Quastad and Chair Lisa Hansen voted no). Pluth later proposed an alternate longevity plan that would begin some longevity payments at 10 years, but the transcript does not record a final vote on that revised plan.
The board did approve increasing the tile intake premium to $0.50 per hour for full-time employees after Pluth amended his motion to specify full-time status; the vote was Hansen, Pluth and Glasnapp in favor, Schumacher and Quastad opposed.
All of the personnel-policy changes approved at the meeting were referred to the county’s labor counsel, Ahlers & Cooney, to draft a revised personnel policy. The board said the new policy must be adopted by the end of June and that implementation dates will be set by the board when the policy is adopted.
The board adjourned at 10:37 a.m.
