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Elmwood board raises late fees, approves personnel policy changes and routine payments
Summary
At its Aug. 12 meeting the Village of Elmwood Board approved raising sewer/invoice late fees from 1% to 5%, updated personnel rules on overtime and accruals, authorized a $1,000 parks contribution and approved payment of submitted bills.
The Village of Elmwood Board of Trustees on Aug. 12 approved several administrative changes and routine payments, including a fee increase and updates to the village personnel policy.
Dawn Toth moved to raise the late fee charged on sewer accounts and other invoices from 1% to 5%; Pam Marson seconded and the motion carried on a roll-call vote. The board did not provide a recorded roll-call tally in the meeting transcript. The fee change was introduced during the Personnel & Finance report.
The board also approved amendments to the personnel policy proposed by Dawn Toth. The changes set an accumulation cap of 40 hours covering hours worked, vacation, sick time and PTO; replace the phrase "standard work time" with "regularly scheduled hours"; and change overtime calculations so overtime is paid only after 40 hours in a workweek rather than after 8 hours in a day. The motion also specifies that part-time employees would receive overtime pay only when working more than eight hours during special events. Pam Marson seconded the motion and it carried.
Separately, the Parks & Buildings committee approved a $1,000 contribution toward a closet for the upstairs auditorium; Pam Marson moved the funding and Jason Severson seconded. The board also approved payment of an invoice described in the minutes as for work allegedly done "3–4 years ago" after Pam Marson moved to pay and Dawn Toth seconded.
Earlier in the meeting, Jason Severson moved to approve operator licenses as submitted—including an application for the Sandbar for Anthony Luttrell—seconded by Paul Unser; that motion also carried. Finally, Dawn Toth moved to approve payment of the bills as submitted; Jason Severson seconded and the motion carried.
The minutes record that each motion passed on roll-call, but the transcript does not include individual vote tallies or recorded dissent. The meeting adjourned at 7:24 p.m.
What happens next: No further implementation steps or effective dates for the personnel or fee changes are recorded in the meeting minutes; the clerk noted that the audit draft from CLA is expected within two weeks and that Ehler's is waiting on the audit before proceeding with a water/sewer rate study.
