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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: September 16, 2008 Action Agenda Item No. ~ ~`~ SUBJECT: Legal Representation for Employee Disciplinary Process DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No County Attorney ATTACHMENT(S): 7/8/08 County Attorney's Office Letter to Laura Blackmon Concerning Employee Representation at a Pre- Disciplinary Conference INFORMATION CONTACT: Laura Blackmon, 245-2300 Geof Gledhill, 732-2196 PURPOSE: To follow-up on a request from the Board of Commissioners for information regarding the current County policy related to legal representation for employees during the employee disciplinary process. BACKGROUND: At the August 19, 2008 regular Board meeting, Eugene Farrar, President of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, appeared before the Board under "Matters Not on the Printed Agenda". Mr. Farrar asked the Board to review the County's current. policy not permitting an employee to have legal representation during the employee disciplinary process. Based on Mr. Farrars request, the Board asked the County Manager to provide information to the Board regarding the County's policy. County staff and the County Attorney's Office had recently addressed this same topic with Mr. Farrar, and the County Attorn.ey's Office had provided the County Manager with a letter dated July 8, 2008 concerning the County's policy. That letter is provided as an attachment to this abstract in response to the Board's request for information. FINANCIAL IMPACT: There is no financial impact associated with receiving this response from the County Manager regarding the County's policy relative to legal representation not being permitted during the employee disciplinary process. RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board receive the information and provide comments and/or directions, if any, to staff on this matter.