Board of Aldermen 03-16-2020 Page 26
Mayor Donchess
Yes it says in essence “employees who should isolate or quarantine themselves due to a potential
exposure or cannot make necessary child arrangements should do so and the City will continue to pay
the employee their regular wages without requiring them to use any personal leave time”. But they
may be asked to work remotely to the extent they are able to do so and then there’s a link.
Alderman Klee
Thank you so much | appreciate that.
Mayor Donchess
Again we don’t people coming to work who are sick. That is the worst thing that can happen so we
want to make it very clear that if you are not feeling well you should stay home and you will not suffer
any consequences because of that.
Alderman Klee
Thank you.
President Wilshire
Director Kleiner did you want to add something to that.
Director Ms. Kleiner
So | did. The Mayor asked Legal and HR and Administrative Services to look at this and we did quite
a bit of research and watched what other towns and cities were doing. We had a lot of employees
reach out to us with great concern as you can imagine. This is very common to how this being dealt
with in other communities. So | wanted the Board to know that we are not taking an approach that is
far from different of that of other municipalities but we need to keep in mind that our employees are, of
course, going through a lot of anxiety as is our whole community is as well. And so for them to find out
that their children were going to be home today and they were going to have to stay home, that
creates problems in many families, especially families these days who have two working parents. So
we are trying to work with our employees and the individual Division Directors are working with their
own to make as much arrangements as we can to still have them work remotely if possible and
perform some services, but also keep in mind the health of our residents, our employees and their
families.
Alderman Klee
Thank you so much | really appreciate it. It just hit me as you were speaking about children being
home and thank you very much for doing that. But! also see that we have two representatives of the
teachers behind us. The teachers will be doing the remote teaching and so on. Will they be doing it
from their homes? Will they be doing it from inside the schools?
