To: Board of Supervisors
From: County Administrative Office
Agenda Section: Departmental
SUBJECT:
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County Considerations Relating to Updated Employee Procedures, Policies and Emergency Signing Authority; Memorandum of Understanding with Humboldt County Office of Education in Response to COVID-19
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Adopt the attached Resolution 20-___ related to employee procedures, policies and emergency signing authority (Attachment 1); and
2. Approve and Authorize the Sheriff to Execute the attached memorandum of understanding with Humboldt County Office of Education to use the Sequoia Conference Center for emergency operations and a joint information center (Attachment 7); and
3. Direct and authorize the Human Resources Director to develop and implement procedures to track and assign disaster service workers to county functions.
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SOURCE OF FUNDING:
All county funds
DISCUSSION:
On March 16, 2020 your Board adopted Resolution 20-20, which, among other aspects, advanced all county employees 80 hours of sick leave, clarified issues around workplace operations including directing departments to refer to their respective continuity of operations plans during the current local emergency related to COVID-19, and adopted an interim telecommuting policy. Since your Board took the above-described action, staff have identified additional topics that call for additional policy direction.
A few of the significant policy considerations contained in the resolution include:
1. Essential Functions, Disaster Service Workers
In response to the declared local emergency and subsequent local and state shelter-in-place orders, county departments have dramatically adjusted the way they deliver services, including temporarily suspending some services while they focus on functions that cannot be delayed. Currently the majority of staff are either performing a department's critical functions either in...
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