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Chief Administrative Office recommending the Board rescind Board Resolution 054-2020 (March 17, 2020) related to the coronavirus pandemic and the County’s response to it.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
On March 17, 2020, amid the health emergency arising from the nascent coronavirus pandemic, the Board of Supervisors adopted Resolution 054-2020, which addressed the County’s response to the pandemic in four ways:
1) The Board declared an emergency pursuant to Government Code Section 3504.5, necessitating the immediate adoption of a resolution in response to the emergency prior to meet-and-confer with affected bargaining units.
2) The Resolution enacted temporary modifications to rules regarding County employee leave accruals, specifically by temporarily allowing County employees to accrue negative balances of up to 80 hours of leave.
3) The Resolution directed the Director of Human Resources to meet and confer with the County's bargaining units to develop guidelines for the recovery of negative sick leave and vacation leave balances advanced to employees.
4) The Resolution authorized the Chief Administrative Officer to make exceptions to Board of Supervisors policies as necessary to support the County's response to the emergency or to provide for the continued operation of the County government. The Resolution specified that such exceptions were to be reported to the Board of Supervisors within 30 days, and that this authority would continue until terminated by the Board of Supervisors.
Since the adoption of Resolution 054-2020, the Chief Administrative Officer has exercised his temporary authority to make exceptions to Board policy only twice:
1) On April 7, 2020, the CAO relaxed certain conditions attached to telework, including the need for fire extinguishers, carbon monoxide detectors and ergonomically designed furniture in the employee’s remote workspace.
2) On June 11, 2020, the CAO waived the minimum requirements to promote employees to...
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