4-1-20 fdl county board takes emergency action during pandemic

The Fond du Lac County Board is taking action to make sure there are enough county emergency responders and health care providers on duty throughout the coronavirus pandemic.    At a special meeting Tuesday night the board voted in favor of a resolution exempting all emergency responders and health care providers employed by the county from application of the new Families First Coronavirus Response Act passed by Congress.   County Board chairman Marty Farrell says the law expands family and medical leave up to ten weeks.  He says the county can’t operate if all county employees tried to exercise that option at once, especially in the vital areas of health care and emergency response.  “I’m sure the county staff wants to accomodate people who have children who are not in school now but we just can’t guarantee every single one of them ten additional weeks of Family Leave for that reason,”  Farrell told WFDL news.   “”…public safety and health would be definately endangered especially in the current situation.”   The board also agreed to suspend it’s rules during the public health emergency so it can meet by tele-conference or electronically in the future.

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