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Mayville Personnel Committee advances employee handbook edits including grievance and discipline language
Summary
Personnel advanced attorney-recommended edits to the employee handbook (discipline, grievance procedures, personnel records access) and discussed pay-grade and resignation notice provisions; members sought consensus to incorporate legal edits and return a consolidated draft for council review in coming months.
The Personnel Committee reviewed proposed updates to the City of Mayville employee handbook on June 22, including legal edits to disciplinary language, grievance procedures and personnel-records access.
Committee members agreed to accept attorney revisions that clarify the city's discretion in applying progressive discipline and to preserve flexibility about who handles internal investigations (the mayor or designee, other departments, or outsourced investigators when conflicts exist). The redline draft showed attorney additions in blue and other proposed edits in green; members asked for the assembled draft to be returned for final review.
The committee also discussed modernization of the pay plan, noting the previous five-scale plan was outdated and proposing that full-time positions be graded in line with recent comparators (Waupun and Kewaunee). Members discussed the potential for a step program tied to grades and requested additional examples for future meetings.
On resignation and payout language, committee members discussed requiring notice periods (two weeks for hourly staff and 30 days for department heads) as part of a payout policy; the committee asked staff to return examples of other municipalities' language.
Committee members reached consensus on attorney edits and asked staff to compile the remaining items into a consolidated draft for review by the Common Council in coming months.
