The Smithville Aldermen Monday night adopted on first reading an ordinance amendment to the city code to give full time employees three new paid holidays including one for the day after Thanksgiving. But since the ordinance will not take effect until after Thanksgiving this year, the aldermen voted to reimburse any employee who wants to use a sick day or vacation day to take off this Friday.
The NEW paid holidays in this ordinance amendment are Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the day after Thanksgiving, and the Friday of the Fiddlers Jamboree.
The following ordinance would amend Title 4 of the City of Smithville Municipal Code to read as follows:
Holidays: Full time employees are allowed a day off with pay on the following days:
New Year’s Day(January 1st)
Martin Luther King Day (Third Monday in January)
Good Friday( Friday before Easter)
Memorial Day (Last Monday in May)
Independence Day (July 4th)
Jamboree (First Friday in July)
Labor Day (First Monday in September)
Thanksgiving (Fourth Thursday and Friday in November)
Christmas (December 24 & 25)
Second and final reading passage will follow a public hearing on Monday, December 5 at 7:00 p.m
Meanwhile, in other business the aldermen voted to allow Golf course tenant Tony Poss to install, at his own expense, sand traps on the 6 and 9 hole at the golf course.
Poss was not at the meeting. Aldermen Steve White brought up the issue on Poss’ behalf.
Sand trap drainage plans are to “dig a hole at the lowest point of the trap near the edge where the sand meets the sod for the drainage tile”
“Wrap the tile to keep it protected’
“Cover the tile with gravel”
“Place a layer of dirt on top of the gravel”
“Fill the sand trap with sand”
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