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49 <br />document that they wanted to present. She advised that they spent a lot of hours <br />working on these contracts. Councilwoman Neeley advised that the contracts <br />came out of a discussion regarding why they were doing evaluations without <br />tying it to something. She stated that the reason that the evaluation should be <br />tied to a contract is that these employees do not have the opportunity that anyone <br />else that she knows of has, that is, to be evaluated in private. Everybody else <br />that she knows gets evaluated in private and then it comes out that the <br />evaluation was approved or satisfactory or unsatisfactory, but this is not aired <br />out in public. Personal feelings are not allowed to come into the process. The <br />City Council does this in an open meeting. Councilwoman Neeley told the City <br />Council that every evaluation instrument they acquired for study and example <br />was tied to a contract. <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 />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 - <br />entitled to draw overtime, which in the case of the City of Paris is represented <br />by department heads. Mr. Anderson said that under the Fair Labor Standard <br />Act, exempt employees, which would include the city manager, city attorney and <br />all the department heads, were not entitled to be paid overtime. So, in terms of <br />their 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 <br />Paris. Mr. Anderson said the Fair Labor Standards Act divides people into two <br />