Tuesday, February 3. 1976
বিভাগের মধ্যে শুরুতে একটি ব্যবস্থা নেই।
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Mismanagement inquiry
From page one
that the city adopt a system for nonnying employees who aren't meeting job requirements. The system would set a standard for the number of times an employee be notified of inferior job performance before being fired.
GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE
CITY MANAGER Buford Watson said he and the city department heads considered the criticism of the city's evaluation system to be justified and recommended that the city require an employee evaluation every March.
Supervisors could evaluate employees more frequently than that, Watson said, but the March evaluations would consider job performance throughout the year.
The report suggested that the city explain to all employees the process of filing a grievance and that assistance be available when grievances are filed. The report also recommended that employees be allowed at least one peer at a grievance hearing.
Watson agreed with Argersinger that allowing a peer in a grievance hearing would keep the hearing from being what he called "top heavy" but added that the city manager accompanying an employee to a grievance hearing every time.
"I just don't want someone come in and saying 'I represent so and so,'" Watson said.
CITYVEHICLES
The report recommended that all city vehicles be strictly forbidden for personal use and that provisions for enforcement of such a policy be adopted.
When Watson said problems arose when trying to determine what constituted "personal use," Bims suggested the use of a lark book with all city vehicles
But Argerinsager pointed out that
they would move on, with the miles,
and we would power away.
EMPLOYE PERFORMANCE RECOGNITION
The report suggested that the city adopt some means of recognizing outstanding performers.
The commission generally agreed that some type of award to outstanding employees would have a beneficial effect on employees.
CITY PURCHASING AND
CITY FORCE ASSISTANT
ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS
"I mean, (recognition) in front of your peers can count just as much as money," he added.
The report recommended that the city manager review the present systems of purchasing and accounting to protect against misuse. A section calling for a clearer accounting of the one-half per cent sales tax was struck after the three endorsers of the report expressed satisfaction with Watson's accounting of the sales tax.
FIRE DEPARTMENT
The report recommended that the city provide fire inspectors a vehicle instead of requiring them to use personal cars and make paid in 26 equal payments during the year.
Watson said the city would check into obtaining a vehicle for fire inspectors to be on the scene of any incidents by the inspectors had evolved from a working arrangement to prevent their walking a lot while making inspections and monitoring cars. The city has required inspectors to use their own vehicles.
arrangement might violate a state law that disallows payment in advance of work.
The city will also investigate the possibility of the equal pay period, Watson and others.
Lawrence firemen work on a system of broken shifts, Watson said. He suggested rearranging the working hours more uniformly so that each present system of working every other shift
Workers allege more violations
Lawrence City Commissioners will again turn their attention to city employee grievances at their regular meeting at 7 tonight.
Norman Forer, adviser for the United Public Employees' Association and KU associate professor of social welfare, will lead a study on sanitation workers to the commission.
Forer said yesterday he would "deal with specific harassments, intimidations and threats in violation of the basic constitutional rights" of the sanitation workers. Such activity, he alleged, has intensified recently.
Declining to name those who might be responsible for the alleged harassment, Foreer said he wouldn't release the specifics of his presentation before the meeting.
In other business, the commission is expected to discuss the acquisition of a buildzoer, plans for an addition to the Douglas County Social and Rehabilitation Service building at 319 Perry and various street and sidewalk projects.
for four shifts and then having four days off,
to working one of every three shifts.
It suggested that the board report directly to the city manager.
Samuels a captain in the Lawrence fire department, said Topeka firemen worked under the same working system as Lawrence firemen and suggested they examine the situation there to see whether Topeka's system could be applied here.
The report had recommended an internal security investigation of the police department and that a civilian review board be established for the investigation.
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Bins said he thought the investigating committee had "hunged the whole thing" by the allegations of criminal behavior and mishandment in the police department.
"What I would like to have seen was an internal investigation conducted in the same case," said I. was against that cloak-and-diameter operation of releasing a second report."
However, the commission agreed that these recommendations should be waived because the county attorney's office is now investigating the allegations of criminal conduct.
HENDERSON said the reason the allegations were termed "irregularities" in the first report instead of being listed in more detail as they were in the second one, was that the committee hadn't really documented any of the allegations.
Stanwick agreed that the investigation shouldn't be handled by the city compaigners were willing to cooperate fully with the county attorney's investigation, he said.
Watson said he and Police Chief Richard
Henderson said. "We aren't making them ourselves."
Binns said the idea of a civilian review board of the police department was his idea. He also favor of establishing a permanent board to deal with department and to do away with uncertainty and suspicion that existed in it. He would further review the policies and the administration.
Stanwick later refused to comment on the idea or on the report's allegations of poor working conditions.
Binns said he wasn't after citizens' complaints.
Watson said that most police departments were opposed to such boards. The boards that do exist, are mainly citizens' complaint boards, he said.
"We heard the allegations and that's it."
WATSON RESPONDED to a recommendation in the report of the commission on child abuse, welfare and health.
year of their hiring. He said a majority of the force had attended a three-day workshop at Merninger's Clinic in Topeka last fall, Psychiatric counseling was available to officers under stress related to their jobs, he said.
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