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70 4) the concern the Commissioners have shown for the county in acquiring a professionally ~rained county manager to assist them in the management of the county's business; and 5) the concern the Com~nissioners have shown for the welfare and protection of county employees, as demonstrated by their proposal to adopt a comprehensive personnel policy, particularly, in view of the difficulty in consolidating the myriad personnel policies that have existed in the past. It is with regard to this difficulty that we respectfully request that you postpone the adoption of the proposed pol=cy, in order to provide county residents, county employees, and agency heads, an opportunity to study the proposed policy in detail and make whatever specific recommendations they feel are appropriate after such study. Secondly, having had an opportunity to review the total policy briefly and Article VI in particular, we wish to register our concern about the proposed policy regarding "Leaves of Absence" As you know, our agencies (Public Health and Social Ser.vices) have had leave policies adopted under the State Competitive Ser¥ice System.for many years. The policy,.under which these two agencies were operating on June 30, 1977 became effective on January l, 1976. The Board of Health officially adopted these new State Competitive Service policies as official health department policy. A provision of the 1976 policy allowed any person employed prior to the' effective date of the policy to continue to earn annual leave at the rate they were earning it. Some employees were allowed to earn annual leave at a higher rate than under the previous policy, based on length of employmc=:t. We respectfully request that the Commissioners, under Article I, Section 2, (e), strike the following from the proposed policy, "Article VI, Sections 1-17, 20-24, 26" on page 1 of the proposed policy, and that the Com~nissioners add Article VI, Section 25, on page 23 of the proposed policy to read as follows: "Section 25: State Competitive Service System Employees - Any person employed under the State Competitive Service System, after the effective date of this policy shall be covered by Article VI, Sections 1-25, of this policy, ~ather than the leave policies of the State Competitive Service System." We believe that the adoption of the above recommendation will 1) contribute to the morale of the employees covered under the State Competitive Service System; 2) demonstrate the wisdom and fairmindedness of the County Commissioners: