The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the Board of Supervisors chambers at the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St., Lakeport. TV8 will broadcast the meeting live.
Supervisor Rob Brown is asking the board to consider amending personnel rules to place a limit on the length of time an employee can be placed on paid administrative leave.
“It is my understanding that there have been situations where employees have been on paid administrative leave for several months,” Brown stated in his memorandum to the board.
Brown noted in his memo that the personnel rules currently contain no provision for imposing a time limit on how long a department head may place an employee on paid administrative leave. “I believe such a limit should be established,” he added.
“Placing an employee on paid administrative leave for several months is unfair to everyone involved, including the taxpayers,” Brown wrote. “Without a time limit there is little incentive to bring these situations to a speedy resolution.”
Brown said he was asking Human Resources Director Kathy Ferguson for a recommendation on an appropriate time limit.
The county's current policy for leave with pay states: “Upon the determination by a department head or his/her designee that an employee should be removed from duty pending proposed disciplinary action, such employee may be placed on leave with pay for such purposes. Such leave shall extend for the actual period necessary to complete an investigation into the charges and/or complete the pre-disciplinary process.”
Ferguson told Lake County News that there are no statistics for how many employees are placed on leave without pay or how much money is spent on such leave because it is not currently recorded under a unique payroll code.
In other board business set for Tuesday, supervisors will discuss a proposed ordinance authorizing payment of a one-time stipend to members of the Board of Supervisors. The item is not timed.
The stipend actually is a refund because the county's health insurance carriers did not charge the county for health insurance in November and December of last year. In late 2009, the board voted to refund $700 per person to qualified full-time employees.
The board also will hold a closed session to discuss labor negotiations.
Other items on the agenda include the following.
Timed items
9 a.m.: Approval of consent agenda, which includes items that are expected to be routine and noncontroversial, and will be acted upon by the board at one time without discussion; presentation of animals available for adoption at Lake County Animal Care and Control; consideration of items not appearing on the posted agenda.
9:05 a.m.: Citizen's input. Any person may speak for three minutes about any subject of concern,
provided that it is within the jurisdiction of the Board of Supervisors and is not already on the agenda. Prior to this time, speakers must fill out a slip giving name, address and subject (available in the Clerk of the Board’s Office, first floor, courthouse).
9:15 a.m.: Presentation on the publication of tick-borne illness.
9:30 a.m.: Presentation on the Lake County 2030 Regional Blueprint Planning Program.
9:45 a.m.: Consideration of request from Gary Condray for waiver of construction traffic road fee in the amount of $15 for project located at 14640 Highway 29, Lower Lake.
10 a.m.: Presentation of proclamation designating the week of Feb. 16-22 as National Engineers Week in Lake County.
10:05 a.m.: Presentation of employee service awards.
10:30 a.m.: Closed session – meeting with Lake County Grand Jury.
11:30 a.m.: Assessment appeal hearing – Jakel Englebert, Application No. 06-2009 for property located at 10030 Hagemann Lane, Upper Lake.
Nontimed items:
– Supervisors' weekly calender, travel and reports.
– Consideration of proposed resolution revising position allocation for Budget Unit 8695 – Special Districts Administration and proposed resolution amending the fiscal year 2009-10 Final Budget for Budget Unit 2602 – Building and Safety and Budget Unit 8695 – Special Districts Administration.
– Second reading of an ordinance establishing a fine and fee schedule for the county library (revisions include fines for overdue materials, fees for interlibrary loans, fees for items lost or returned irreparable, fines for accounts referred to collection services, refunds for lost items returned, maximum fine debt allowed and circumstances allowing fines to be waived). Advanced from Feb. 9.
– Discussion/consideration of request for authorization for Mental Health staff (Marisol Valdez) to provide county transportation to four Friday Night members to Eureka on Feb. 26 and 27 to attend the Eureka California for Youth Leadership training.
– Discussion/consideration of award of Bid No. 10-16 to Holder Ford in the amount of $32,222.79 for the purchase of one 2011 full size one-ton, four-wheel-drive, single rear wheel, regular cab long bed pickup for Public Services' Parks and Recreation Division.
Consent agenda
– Approve minutes of the Board of Supervisors meeting held on Feb. 9, 2010.
– Adopt proclamation designating the week of Feb. 16-22, 2010, as National Engineers' Week in Lake County.
– Appoint incumbent William Sapeta to the Emergency Medical Care Committee for a term expiring on Jan. 1, 2011.
– Appoint Thomas Nixon to the Countywide Parks and Recreation Advisory Board (Supervisorial District 5 representative) for a term expiring on Jan. 1, 2011.
– Adopt Resolution No. ___ declaring county property surplus to the needs of the county and authorizing purchasing agent to sell said property (one 1985 Bowles trailer, one 1987 Westco trailer and one 1991 Westco trailer).
– Waive the 900 hour limit for extra help bailiffs Steve Jones, Mike Wood, James Everhart, Robert Piveronas and David Jones for the Lake County Sheriff's Office.
– Waive the 900 hour limit for extra help employees Wes Frey, Bob Jordan, Gerry Mills and Willie Sapeta (to a maximum of 960 hours) for the Lake County Sheriff's Office.
– Waive the 900 hour limit for extra help employees Jim Campbell, Dane Hayward and Lloyd Wells for the Lake County Sheriff's Office.
– Waive the 900 hour limit for extra help employee Frank Ley (for an additional 600 hours) for the Lake County Air Quality Management District.
– Approve easement deed and direct clerk to certify for recordation APN 014-160-01 – Billy Jackson and Diana Jackson, consented and agreed to by lien holder First Bank and Trust; and approve easement deed and direct clerk to certify for recordation APN 014-160-09 – David Scott and Emily Scott, consented and agreed to by lien holder Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. for construction of a sewer line for Twin Pine Casino in Middletown.
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