2024-019 - Add Juneteenth and Veterans Day as Paid Employee Holidays to Personnel Manual Section 14.01

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RESOLUTION NO. 2024-019 AMENDMENT BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS TO CITY PERSONNEL MANUAL SECTION 14.01 TO ADD JUNETEETH AND VETERANS DAY AS PAID EMPLOYEE HOLIDAYS; MAKING OTHER FINDINGS AND PROVISIONS AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, Mayor Reginald B. Hughes has made a request to add Juneteenth, (June 191h of each year) and Veterans Day, (November 11th of each year) to the list of city observed holidays; and WHEREAS, this would amend Section 14.01 of the Personnel Policy and Procedures to include Juneteenth and Veteran Day to the other observed holidays as follows: "Secti n 14.01-Holida s New Year's Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day and the Friday following, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day are observed as official holidays for all city employees in accordance with the existing policies." WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Paris hereby agrees that Juneteenth Gune 19th of each year) and Veterans Day, (November 111h of each year) should be observed as additional city holidays and that Section 14.01of the Personnel Policy and Procedures shall be amended. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS: Section 1. That the findings set out in the preamble to this resolution are hereby in all things approved and are incorporated herein for all purposes. Section 2. That Section 14.01 of the Personnel Policy and Procedures to include Juneteenth and Veteran Day to the other observed holidays as follows: "Section 14.01 -Holidays New Year's Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day and the Friday following, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day are observed as official holidays for all city employees in accordance with the existing policies." Section 4. That this resolution shall be effective from and after its date of passage.