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City of Paris Council Bcnclits Subcommittee May 4, 2004 Page 4 Anderson said he did not request her to come because the city pays her by the hour and he felt that he could answer any questions that the committee has. Councilman Bell said the reason as, he understood, was that she was working on, and that Mr. Anderson had directed her to be working on a new personnel manual, which has not been updated since 1982. He said that some of the things that are problems now were by virtue that the city is not staying up with the personnel changes. He said that one of the things that has comes to his attention is that vacation, sick leave, all time off is being converted to a thing called PTO (Personal Time Oft). Councilman Bell said if the city is going to redo the personnel manual, they need to be looking at PTO's, whether it is vacation or sick leave. He felt the city should combine the two, max them out and then discuss if they allow sell back and how much they will allow. Councilman Bell said this seems to be a trend across the board, including a lot of government entities going to PTO's. He said he was thinking that they need to work with Mr. Anderson and Melba as a committee on a regular basis because rather than redesign this and put certain limits, why don't they just pull all that together. Councilman Be[l said that would require the city staff to do research too and look at the cutting edge of the field today, because there is a lot of time involved in checking out whether or not an employee was sick. Councilman Bell said as a committee, he would like for them to sit down and get the staff to come forward with a PTO recommendation and it needs to be one where they marry up vacation and sick leave and still comply with the FLMA Act, because then an employee can take off extended periods of time xvithout pay, but their job comes back to them when they return to work. Councilman Bell felt that it would be best to go on to that method of accountability, which seems to be catching on like wildfire. If the city is not going to do it, they need to undcrstand why they are not doing it. He said it is a lot less accountability on the city for the employees to take off time and it goes toward the PTO. Councilman Bell made a motion for city staffto do a study and come back with a rccommendation combining vacation and sick leave into a PTO concept with a limit of 45 days. The motion was seconded by Councilman McCarthy. The