Resolution 200-1976
RESOLUTION NO. 2oQ1976
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING DIRECTOR OF ROAD DEPARTMENT
AND MANAGER OF MUNICIPAL SERVICE DISTRICT TO CON-
TRACT FOR SERVICES IN EMERGENCIES.
WHEREAS, due to emergencies arising due to employee vacan-
cies caused by illness, death, short notice resignations and other
unanticipated situations, the Board of County Commissioners finds
it exceedingly difficult to carryon essential Road Department and
Municipal Service District programs, and
WHEREAS, this resolution is a mechanism whereby in cases
of extreme, dire emergencies, essential employee positions can be
staffed on a contractual basis pending approval by the Board at a
regularly scheduled meeting, now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA, as follows:
1. That the Director of the Road Department and the
Manager of the Municipal Service District are each hereby authorized
in situations of real emergencies where vacant employee positions
jeopardize the operation of their department in that essential func-
tions and duties must be provided without delay or interruption
and the normal hiring and staffing procedures cannot be followed
due to the time involved in processing said employment and the
Board is not in regular or special session and no other County em-
ployee is available from another department to fill said vacancy
temporarily until said normal hiring procedures can be completed
then, and only in that event, they are authorized to contract for
services providing the following procedure is followed:
a. At least one Board member must be contacted
and informed of the necessity of such contracting, and verbally
approves of same.
b. That the contract for services be placed on the
next regularly scheduled Board agenda for Board approval, and
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cases where continued employment is necessary that the individual
so contracted be hired by the Board.
c. That the individual so contracted with for
services agrees in writing that his employment is only temporary
and is not a contract for labor and will only continue until the
next regularly scheduled Board meeting and that his continued em-
ployment beyond said next regularly scheduled Board meeting may not
be approved by the Board and that if it is not approved by the
Board that his services will then cease except that he will be en-
titled to compensation for his services from date of contract to
disapproval at the existing rate of pay in effect for that position
at the time of contracting except that no sick leave or annual leave
shall accrue to him by virtue of his contract for services.
d. The Clerk shall be notified of such contract for
services and is authorized to make payment to said individual in
accordance with paragraph c abovesaid.
2. It is the intent of the Board that the provisions con-
tained herein shall be used only in emergency situations wherein no
other qualified county employee is available to provide the service
and the position vacant is a position which is absolutely vital to
the effective functioning of the Road Department or Municipal Ser-
vice District.
DONE at Marathon, Monroe County, Florida, this 3rd day of
November, A.D. 1976.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA
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Attest:
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