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Personnel Committee recommends handbook updates, defers on-call pay decision and agrees to respond in personnel incident
Summary
The Village Personnel Committee recommended updates to the Professional & Ethical Conduct and Standards of Conduct sections of the employee handbook and discussed an IT vendor proposal for virtual alarm access that could change on-call pay; the committee entered closed session on an employee incident and agreed to send a letter to Trustee Blaine Werner.
The Village Personnel Committee on June 3 recommended updates to the employee handbook’s Professional & Ethical Conduct and Standards of Conduct sections and discussed changes to on-call pay after reviewing a proposal to permit remote alarm access at the wastewater treatment plant.
Chairman Barbara Ruege said the handbook language had been drafted and reviewed by the village attorney and presented the committee with the proposed changes. Member Dave Borchardt moved to recommend the Professional & Ethical Conduct and Standards of Conduct updates to the Village Board; Member Jamie Vorpahl seconded and the motion carried, 3-0.
DPW employee Dave Tisler described a proposal from the village’s IT contractor to install a setup that would allow on-call staff to access wastewater-treatment alarms remotely, removing the need for staff to respond in person for some alarm calls. Clerk/Treasurer Stephanie Waala said the change raises a question for policy: whether employees should be paid per call when responding remotely or receive a set daily on-call stipend. The committee agreed to hold further discussion on on-call compensation after the finance committee reviews the IT contractor proposal.
Waala also said there was an additional request about whether employees assigned to on-call duties would be permitted to take a village truck home; the committee deferred that question for future consideration.
The committee later voted, 3-0, to enter closed session under Wis. Stat. § 19.85(1)(c) to consider employment and performance data related to an employee incident. The committee reconvened in open session at 5:20 p.m.; Chairman Ruege said the committee will respond to Trustee Blaine Werner on that matter by sending a letter through the mail. The meeting adjourned at 5:22 p.m.
Actions taken at the meeting were limited to procedural approvals and the recommendation of handbook updates; no final decisions on on-call pay, the truck-home request, or the IT contractor proposal were made at this meeting.
