(A) The County Board and the Labor/Policy Committee have researched all previous County Board policies pertaining to personnel. The County Board has collected individual personnel policy statements from elected officials and department heads to develop a county personnel policy manual for all county employees. It is the County Board’s responsibility to establish a personnel policy for all county employees, while being accountable to the taxpayers of the county for the most effective and efficient operation of county government. The provisions of these policies should be considered to be advisory only as to elected department heads.
(B) The policies set forth in this chapter are designed to:
(1) Foster good working relationships and provide uniform personnel policies, opportunities for advancement and consideration of employees’ needs and desires;
(2) Conduct all operations in an ethical and proper manner;
(3) Ensure dependable service to and by employees of the county and to the public with which it deals; and
(4) All proposed policy changes will be sent to the department head/elected official for review prior to full Board adoption at the following month’s regular meeting.
(Ord. passed 11-28-2011)