CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
Memo Date: August 22, 2024
Agenda Date: August 27, 2024
Prepared By: Tammy Gemmati, Administrative Services Director
Through: Stockton Whitten, City Manager
Requested Action:
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Approval of the revised Emergency Pay Policy.
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BACKGROUND:
The responsibility of the City to serve its citizens dictates that some essential departments must remain staffed during hazardous weather or a state of local emergency. City Council approved a citywide Emergency Pay policy at the July 11, 2023 City Council Meeting. The City's Emergency Pay Policy outlines the activation/deactivation of the policy, the compensation, and employee reporting requirements.
Since that time, Staff has worked with the Florida Division of Emergency Management's F-ROC program on a Disaster Readiness Assessment, which provided feedback on the City's Emergency Pay Policy. The necessary policy changes were made to help increase the assessment score and then provided to each of the five bargaining unions to review. Since the changes were mainly administrative in nature, all unions agreed to the changes without meeting.
The changes of the policy make the policy language clearer and comply more closely to FEMA's Public Assistance Program and Policy Guide, which will indirectly make the City's FEMA reimbursement process more efficient. Attached is a redlined and a clean version of the Emergency Pay policy.
STRATEGIC PLAN CONNECTION:
Public Safety/Community Standards and Organizational Effectiveness
BUDGETARY IMPACT:
Budgeted Yes
If not budgeted, is amendment/transfer attached? N/A
This policy will have a budgetary impact in the event an emergency is declared by City Council and when the City adjusts work schedules for emergency operations. The overall impact of such activation would vary based on the duration of event and the ability to obtain public assistance from FEMA.
PREVIOUS ACTION:
At the Regular City Council Meeting on July...
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