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Council adopts personnel-policy updates, loosens nepotism restriction for case-by-case review
Summary
Council approved five changes to the personnel policy that clarify residency provisions, comp time payout, holiday language, accident review forms, and a modified nepotism policy allowing the city administrator to review hiring of relatives on a case-by-case basis with a conflict-management plan.
The council adopted Resolution 12 approving updates to the city personnel policy. Staff summarized five changes: clarifying that employment contracts may include residency requirements; adjusting compensatory-time payout language to align with collective bargaining agreements and past practice; updating holiday and sick-time language to match contracts; adding a revised accident-review form; and revising the nepotism policy to allow case-by-case waiver requests reviewed by the city administrator.
Staff said the nepotism change retains the city’s aim to avoid hiring relatives into the same department but adds an administrative review path, a waiver form signed by involved employees and department head, and a conflict-management plan when necessary to mitigate supervision conflicts. Council members asked about process and confirmed staff had circulated the draft to department heads and consulted legal counsel before bringing the policy forward.
The council voted to adopt the personnel-policy updates. Staff will post the revised policy to the HR portal and require employee acknowledgement as part of ongoing personnel administration.
