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Court advances EMS paid-time-off policy and adopts first reading of building-code update to match state rule
Summary
After discussion about limiting verbal PTO approvals and requiring UKG entries, Carroll County Fiscal Court accepted the EMS paid-time-off policy first reading with requested changes and advanced a building-code ordinance altering permit timelines to the state-required 180 days.
Carroll County Fiscal Court advanced two policy matters at first reading: a county EMS paid time-off and leave-request policy and an ordinance to adopt the uniform state building code with a state-requested change to permit time limits.
On the EMS policy, members raised concerns about a draft provision that allowed verbal approvals of PTO. A committee member said verbal approvals frequently cause disputes and asked that the policy limit verbal approvals to true emergencies and require prompt documentation.
"Verbal approval bothered me a little bit because we always get into this world... It should be limited and documented as quickly as possible," the committee member said during discussion.
Staff and the committee agreed to revise the language: verbal approvals may be used only in emergency circumstances and must be documented in the UKG time/leave system promptly. The court voted to accept the first reading with those revisions and return the ordinance for a second reading.
Separately, county staff presented a first reading to adopt the uniform state building code, with the only substantive change being a state-requested reduction in the allowable period for permit commencement or abandonment from one year to 180 days. A county representative said the state building code office reviewed the draft and asked the county to align the permit timeline to the state standard.
"They asked us to make that amendment, which were doing," said the county representative during the building-code discussion.
Both items will return to the court with revised language for final action at a subsequent meeting.
