1) #102 Employment Processing—Do Department Heads have to ask for permission to advertise for empty positions (when they are already budgeted)? Option One: DH can advertise without permission but must (as they do now) come the Board for permission to hire the winning candidate; Option Two: DH must request permission to advertise; Option Three: DH can advertise without permission but must request Board permission to interview, and then again to hire once the winning candidate is identified.

2) #301 Donation of Leave to Other County Employees. Does the Board want this policy?

3) Application of This Policy to Certain Public Health Employees: The Board needs to decide the issue presented in my earlier memo regarding whether those certain public health employees who are currently under the Goodhue-Wabasha policy will have their benefits reduced.

“The sheriff shall keep and preserve the peace of the county, for which purpose the sheriff may require the aid of such persons or power of the county as the sheriff deems necessary. The sheriff shall also pursue and apprehend all felons, execute all processes, writs, precepts, and orders issued or made by lawful authority and to the sheriff delivered, attend upon the terms of the district court, and perform all of the duties pertaining to the office…”