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Regular City Council Meeting <br />February 10, 2003 <br />Page 6 <br /> <br />tying it to something. She stated that the reason that the evaluation should be tied <br />to a contract is that these employees do not have the opportunity that anyone else <br />that she knows of has, that is, to be evaluated in private. Everybody else that she <br />knows gets evaluated in private and then it comes out that the evaluation was <br />approved or satisfactory or unsatisfactory, but this is not aired out in public. <br />Personal feelings are not allowed to come into the process. The City Council <br />does this in an open meeting. Councilwoman Neeley told the City Council that <br />every evaluation instrument they acquired for study and example was tied to a <br />contract. <br /> <br />Councilwoman Neeley asked that Gene Anderson, Director of Finance, be <br />allowed to come forward and address items of concern in section 4.1 of the <br />contract. She said there was also a revision to the contract regarding this same <br />issue. <br /> <br />Gene Anderson, Director of Finance, came forward and advised that the issues <br />that were discussed with him by several council members had to do with comp <br />pay and how that applied to the people involved with the contracts. Mr. <br />Anderson explained that the current City Personnel Policy only addresses comp <br />pay in one area, and that is on page 12 of the policy book. The context in which <br />it addresses the issue is with non-exempt employees, that is, employees who are <br />entitled to draw overtime. Exempt employees are employees who are not entitled <br />to draw overtime, which in the case of the City of Paris is represented by <br />department heads. Mr. Anderson said that under the Fair Labor Standard Act, <br />exempt employees, which would include the city manager, city attorney and all <br />the department heads, were not entitled to be paid overtime. So, in terms of their <br />comp time, if their employment is terminated, they are not entitled to be <br />compensated for any accumulated comp time. They get zero because city <br />policies, as they are written, do not allow anybody except nonexempt employees <br />(hourly)to be paid for that time if they leave the employment of the City of Paris. <br />Mr. Anderson said the Fair Labor Standards Act divides people into two groups <br />they are either exempt and not entitled to overtime, or they are nonexempt and <br />they are entitled to overtime. For exempt employees of the City of Paris, when <br />they leave the employment of the City of Paris, they are not entitled to be paid for <br /> <br /> <br />