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Eureka council to consider making staff whole after evacuation; comp-time policy proposed
Summary
Mayor proposed paying employees their regular wages for the evacuation period and awarding overtime/bonus to staff who worked; council asked for dollar amounts to be prepared. Staff also requested a capped comp-time policy for overtime.
Mayor Robert Jenkins said several city employees were unable to work during the evacuation and proposed that those employees be paid their standard wages for the week, while giving time-and-a-half or bonuses to staff who worked through the emergency.
"I shared it with, mostly because it deals with the budget... I wanted council opinion on it, about paying our employees that were unable to work just their 8 hour wage," the mayor said, asking staff to produce a concrete dollar amount for formal consideration. Council member Charles Davis voiced support for making employees whole but questioned bonuses, saying, "I don't have a problem at all with making them whole as far as the time frame the fire caused that they could not be to work." The mayor and council agreed to collect payroll figures and place the matter on a future agenda.
Separately, field staff requested a comp-time policy that would allow overtime to be banked as paid time off with a cap. Staff member Shay offered to draft a capped comp-time proposal for the council to review at the next meeting.
