At next week’s meeting, Allen County Commissioners will be hearing a request to change vacation payout policies when an employee no longer works for the county.
Sheriff Anthony Maness said he’s making the request in the wake of a couple of recent situations in his office, one where an employee was terminated after criminal charges were filed against them and a recent situation where another employee abandoned their position. In both cases, the employees received payouts of their unused vacation time.
Maness will be discussing this with department heads and other elected officials to get their views on the proposal.
During the Allen County Commission meeting Tuesday, Maness also discussed the proposal to enter into a lease management program for vehicles and other equipment through Enterprise, telling Commissioners it may not work as well for some departments as for others.
He explained the benefits to his office might be offset by how it would impact departments such as Public Works or Road and Bridge, as they don’t go through vehicles as regularly as he does. While he’s not saying he doesn’t have high hopes for this program, he is approaching this with realism.
The sheriff also provided updates on recent training sessions the office is involved with and has coming up.
