2024-019 - Add Juneteenth and Veterans Day as Paid Employee Holidays to Personnel Manual Section 14.01RESOLUTION 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.
PASSED AND APPROVED this 26th day of February, 2024.
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