9.k Contact for employment related tasks
Staff Report
Date of Meeting: May 21, 2019
To: City Council
From: City Attorney Eric Sherburne
Re: Designating a Contact for Employment Related Tasks
Perhaps the Council would consider designating an appropriate individual who could act in the
stead of a City Administrator for responsive employment-related tasks. In connection with this
recent matter, we have discovered that we need somebody to have access to personnel files (as
needed) and somebody to be able to sign Employee Action Forms. This is in addition to having
somebody to receive and respond to grievances initially, of course. One could also imagine
other employment- related tasks the City Administrator might otherwise handle, like processing
time-off requests, signing timecards, receiving complaints, etc.
By the way, if any employment-related issues were to arise before a new City Administrator is
in place, we all now have a better handle on how we could respond to them, even without a
designated individual.
Eric Sherburne
Attorney