HomeMy WebLinkAbout057-21 (EmployeeBonus(VeryHighRiskOrHighRiskEmployees)) ORDINANCE
January 13, 2021
WHEREAS, in Chapter 56 of the Acts of 2020 Special Session I, approved by the
Governor on November 18, 2020, the General Assembly, at Item 477, Section HH
thereof, appropriated funds to provide sworn constitutional officers and their staffs,
including sheriffs, sheriffs' deputies, regional jail superintendents and corrections
officers, whose positions are funded by the Compensation Board, a one-time bonus
payment of$500 each on December 1, 2020; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors, on December 9, 2020, enacted an
ordinance, pursuant to Virginia Code § 15.2-1508, authorizing the County to pay the
foregoing bonuses, to such individuals for whom the Commonwealth provided funding,
who were so employed on December 1, 2020; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors desires that all other individuals who were,
as of December 1, 2020, employed on a full-time basis by the County, or by or as the
County's constitutional officers, or by entities for which the County serves as fiscal
agent, and whose positions are classified as Very High exposure risk or High exposure
risk, according to 16VAC25-220, Emergency Temporary Standard for Infectious
Disease Prevention: SARS-CoV-2 Virus That Causes COVID-19, receive a one-time
bonus payment of$500 each;
THEREFORE, be it hereby ordained that the Board of Supervisors authorizes
payment of a monetary bonus of$500 each to all individuals who were, as of December
1, 2020, employed on a full-time basis by the County, or by or as the County's
constitutional officers, or by entities for which the County serves as fiscal agent, and
whose positions are classified as Very High exposure risk or High exposure risk,
according to 16VAC25-220, Emergency Temporary Standard for Infectious Disease
Prevention: SARS-CoV-2 Virus That Causes COVID-19, said bonus to be payable on or
before March 31, 2021, provided, however, that no person who received a bonus
pursuant to the Ordinance enacted by the Board of Supervisors on December 9, 2020
shall be eligible for or receive a bonus pursuant to the terms of this Ordinance.
RES# 057-21
Enacted this 13th day of January, 2021.
Charles S. DeHaven, Jr.,
Chairman Aye Shawn L. Graber Aye
J. Douglas McCarthy Aye Robert W. Wells Aye
Blaine P. Dunn Aye David D. Stegmaier Aye
Judith McCann-Slaughter Aye
A COPY ATTEST
Kris C. Tierney
Frederick County Administrator
RES#057-21