February 5, 2003

Taylor Lake Village
by Tom Foster

Taylor Lake Village City Council voted 3-2, with Judy Cloninger and Carl Fontenot opposed, to approve new city employee vacation requirements, based on the length of the employee's service to the city.

The city will provide one week of vacation following the employee’s probationary six-month period. The city will give another week of vacation at the one-year mark, based on the employee’s hire date. Mayor Natalie O’Neill said the city has been following this format but “has now put it into the employee manual.” 

Fontenot said he was concerned that an employee could take up to three weeks of vacation after being employed by the city at the one year, one-day employment mark following the employee’s hire date.

The city council voted to call the May 3 elections for the positions currently held by Cloninger and Mark Sheridan.  

The city council unanimously voted to support a hazard mitigation plan in an interlocal agreement with Harris County.

Council members took no action on a request to hire a parks maintenance worker when the candidate withdrew his application.

Mayor Natalie O’Neill issued a city proclamation recognizing the death of the seven astronauts in the Columbia Shuttle accident. One of the astronauts, Kalpana Chawla, a native of India, was a resident of Taylor Lake Village.