Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, October 14, 1994 TAG: 9410140069
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Medium
As of early Thursday, the town had received 22 resumes from people interested in the job. It has been vacant since the recent resignation of Mildred Bolen, who is furthering her education and pursuing other job possibilities.
The job candidates will be interviewed by the town's administrative staff during the last week in October. The staff will bring resumes of the top candidates to the town's Personnel Committee, which will begin interviewing them in early November.
The Personnel Committee met Thursday and agreed to recommend refining its policy on members of the same family working in town departments.
The existing policy prohibits immediate family members and members of the same household, such as a couple living together, from working in the same town department. Because of this, said Fire Chief Jeff Hall, he has had to turn down volunteer firefighters because they have relatives who are paid firefighters.
Councilman John Johnston suggested simply not applying the prohibition to volunteers or other less than full-time employees, and that is what will be recommended to Pulaski Town Council at its next meeting Nov. 1.
The Personnel Committee will also recommend changing the title of the Fire Department's three firefighter/master mechanics to sergeants, to better define their level of supervision, and to upgrade the job classification of the Police Department's parking enforcement officer to the same grade as dispatcher, so the officer can be cross-trained to handle dispatcher duties as well.
The personnel classification recommendations were approved even though the town is likely to revise its job classifications generally next year.
A graduate personnel class from Radford University is making a study of the town's existing employee classification plan, and will make recommendations for changes by the end of the year. The town has 31 ranges for some 50 job titles, as compared with only 15 ranges in the neighboring towns of Blacksburg and Wytheville.
The graduate students are gathering the data at no charge to the town, as part of their course.
The town staff also is working on rewriting the town's personnel rules and regulations covering benefits, conduct, employment, leave, training, compensation, safety and risk management and other general policies. It will deliver proposed revisions to the Personnel Committee in phases, with the first set coming within 30 days.
by CNB