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Borough of Palisades Park, NJ
Bergen County
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A. 
Vacation requests should be submitted no less than 10 days in advance unless there is an emergency, and preferably scheduled well in advance. Administration/supervisory staff must check that there are not conflicts with regard to coverage.
B. 
All vacation request should be submitted by April 15, and the majority of vacation time should be taken by Labor Day.
C. 
No vacation requests, comp time or personal days are considered official unless requested, in writing, and signed by the Health Officer. On occasion, verbal permission may be granted by the Health Officer.
D. 
All individuals supervised directly by the Health Officer must discuss vacation, comp time and sick leave requests with the Health Officer to ensure that there is not conflict.
If there are any questions regarding salary checks or any personnel matter, staff should refer questions the Health Officer who will, in turn, contact the Finance Department.
All requests for supplies should go through the Health Officer.
[Added 6-10-1997 by Ord. No. 97-1]
The Health Officer shall prepare at least one annual evaluation of every employee under his supervision. Said evaluation shall be submitted to the employee who shall have an opportunity to submit written comments with respect thereto. The Health officer shall review said evaluations and employee make the same available to the Board. The Health comments and officer shall establish procedures for the effectuation of the aforesaid and may establish procedures for the more frequent evaluation of employees.as deemed appropriate. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as requiring the Board to formally consider employee evaluations.
A. 
All staff are expected to submit a monthly report of their activities to the Board. If staff are typing their own reports, they should be submitted a week before the Board meeting to the executive secretary assigned to do staff reports so that these can be copied and included in the Board packets.
B. 
If reports are to be typed by the executive secretary, they have to be submitted to her no later than the first of the month. Reports not received by the first of the month will not be submitted to the Board, and the employee would have to justify why a monthly report was not submitted.
C. 
Written reports are an essential part of our professional responsibilities, and the monthly reports that go to the Board enable it to get an understanding of our respective roles.
D. 
Staff are expected to organize their schedule to allow time for report writing.
E. 
If an employee's vacation schedule overlaps the first of the month, that employee is expected to submit his report before going on vacation.
F. 
The Health Officer may have a special expectation for report writing and will alert you of this from time to time. Please date all reports, and employees have the responsibility of editing and checking their reports before these are sent to the Board.