Residency Rule Should Apply to Top Positions Only, Committee Decides
Only the police chief, fire chief and public works directors should, along with the city administrator and attorney, be required to live here, a council committee recommends.
After months of tilting over whether to keep all current residency requirements for appointed city employees or to do away with them all together, the Employee Relations Committee on Tuesday did neither but voted its way back to square one. After another debate lasting nearly an hour and a half, committe members voted 3-2 to recommend doing away with the residency rule for all but three department heads – the police and fire chiefs and the director of public works. (Residency is also required of the city administrator, who works under a separate contract, and the city attorney, who is covered by a separate ordinance.) What's more, the committee stipulated that there should still be no option of granting residency waivers for those …
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Mark
11:03 pm on Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Dedication to the job has absolutely nothing to do with where you live. So lets get real and get rid of this antique rule more ›