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'" 01 tl . TUESDAY DECEMBER 14, 1976 ,,- Federal grant for the purchase and operation of a van for senior citizens), and upon motion by Councilman Greene, duly seconded, with Mayor Hobson and Councilmen Greene and Oakes voting in the affirmative and with Vice-Mayor Cole and Councilman West voting in the negative, Council authorized the applying for addition Federal funds toward the cost of renovating subject property for the senior citizens, with the understanding or condition that there will be no cash outlay by the ,-,. City in the cost of such renovations. In response to Council's request from its November 23rd meeting, City Manager Noland presented the following report pertaining to the City's policy on employing relatives of City employees, as stated in Section 8-3.3 of the City's Employee Manual, recommending that said policy be retained but suggesting an alternative amendment should council wish to relax the present restrictions: As a result of the issue raised publicly at the last Council meeting, I have met at length with the eight Department Heads, and we had a full and free discussion of the issue. - We feel it to be unfortunate that an individual was publicly identified--rather, this should be purely a policy consideration with no particular individual in mind. Also, our discussion took place without knowing what any legal opinion might hold. There was agreement that there now exist certain personnel administration problems which would not exist if the present official policy as to employment of relatives had been the policy for a good number of years. In short, we feel that the present policy is in the best interest of the City. We were in firm agreement that public sector employment is considerably different from that in the private sector,