The decision on whether and how to discipline sheriff's deputies for not complying with the COVID-19 vaccine mandate now rests with the county personnel director.
"Your motion is going to seek to basically cause us to actually lose 4,000 employees, for a grand total of 0.4% improvement in positivity rate," he said. " is not exactly benefit to public safety. We're coming off two years of a historically high 94% increase in homicide rate, 64% increase in grand theft auto. And this is just not sustainable. The current situation is not sustainable. The hiring freeze is not sustainable.
"... This is ill-advised, illogical and probably in the long run illegal," Villanueva said. "And by the time we figure out the legality of it, we're going to be past the pandemic, which will make the result irrelevant. I urge you to deescalate, dial back the rhetoric and find some common ground — testing or vaccination, and we're doing that right now."
Kuehl insisted, however, that employees' refusal to get vaccinated or at least request an exemption "really puts county lives at risk, and it is simply unacceptable." "To protect county lives ... we have to enforce this mandate," she said. "Every department head must be serious about enforcing departmental and countywide policies. ... Not all of our department heads have recognized that this policy is critically necessary and will save lives. ... We are not going to permit county lives to be jeopardized by an individual decision not to comply with county policy. If you, county department head, will not take this seriously ...
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