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Supervisors delay full approval of revised employee handbook, send key legal edits to policy committee
Summary
After review by counsel, the board agreed to route red-line legal changes of a 300-page employee handbook to the policy committee for more detailed departmental review and to revisit the matter in August; no final approval was taken.
The board discussed a comprehensive revision of the county employee handbook that counsel reviewed and returned with legal edits. HR said department heads requested more time to review the red-line document and staff recommended that the board approve attorney-reviewed legal changes now while sending the remaining material to the policy committee for focused, department-level review.
Supervisors expressed concern that the handbook mixes policies and procedures and recommended separating department-specific procedures from the countywide employee handbook. Members also flagged inconsistencies between the handbook language and the county's online harassment training screenshots; one supervisor said that section should be clarified to cover all harassment rather than only sexual harassment.
No formal action was taken to adopt the full handbook at the meeting. Board members agreed to schedule further policy-committee review and to place the revised handbook on the agenda for consideration in August after policy-committee feedback and department-head input.
