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Commission votes to pay county employees for hours missed when called to volunteer fire duty
Summary
The Greenwood County Commission approved a policy to pay county employees for hours missed from regular work when they are called out to respond to emergency fires, provided the employees return to work when the call is over; the motion passed 5-0.
Commissioner Mac Obourn moved, and Roy Ballard seconded, a motion to pay county employees the hours they miss from their regular scheduled work day when called out to respond to emergency fires, with the expectation that the employee return to work when the call is over. The commission approved the motion on a unanimous 5-0 vote.
The minutes record the policy decision but do not specify whether additional personnel policies, tracking procedures, or funding sources will be updated to reflect the new practice. The motion was framed as an operational policy change to compensate staff who volunteer for the Fire Department during work hours.
