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Spencer council restores specific year-end bonus policy, adds part-time employee eligibility
Summary
Council clarified year-end bonus language and voted to reinsert prior handbook wording: full-time employees eligible for a 40-hour bonus, part-time for 20 hours, subject to 90-day probation and evaluation; the council specifically included part-time employee Jeff Moffitt at 20 hours this year.
The Spencer City Council voted Nov. 20 to restore explicit year-end bonus language in the city employee handbook and to apply eligibility to a named part-time employee.
Mayor Farmer asked the council to clarify ambiguous handbook language about annual Christmas or year-end bonuses. City Attorney Ed Boring advised the council to make the policy specific. Alderman David Chandler moved to apply the previous policy while including part-time employee Jeff Moffitt as eligible for a 20-hour bonus this year; Alderman Darrell Nance seconded. Roll-call votes recorded Nance, Chandler and Alderman Jill Bouldin as voting yes; Aldermen Hensley and Campbell were absent. The motion passed.
Alderman Chandler then moved to update the handbook by restoring the prior policy wording. The motion—seconded by Alderman Nance—was adopted. The handbook language entered into the record reads in part: "End of year bonus for all full-time City Employees. If funds are available, an annual bonus that equals to 40 hours only. End of year bonus for all part-time employees can be annual bonus of 20 hours only. Pay may be awarded to all employees that have completed a 90-day probation period and has received at minimum of a 4 on their 90 day and/or Annual Evaluation. This would be paid at the 1st pay period in December."
The motions were procedural updates to internal personnel policy and do not themselves appropriate funds; implementation will follow budgetary availability and the handbook’s eligibility criteria.
