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~j <br />Elk River -== <br />Municipal Utilities <br />13069 Orono Parkway • P.O. Box 430 <br />Elk River, MN 55330-0430 <br />December 10, 2009 <br />To: Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission <br />John Dietz <br />Jerry Gumphrey <br />Daryl Thompson <br />From: Troy Adams <br />Subject: Review and Consider Clothing Policy Revision <br />Phone: 763.441.2020 <br />Fax: 763.441.8099 <br />Elk River Municipal Utilities provides personal protective equipment (PPE) for employees. This <br />includes, but is not limited to: FR clothing, boots, safety glasses, safety vests, hard hats, rubber <br />and leather gloves. These are items required for safe implementation of the employees' job <br />duties. These items are the property of Elk River Municipal Utilities and not employee <br />compensation. <br />Much of these items have the Elk River Municipal Utilities logo on them. Although there are <br />logoed clothing items that employees acquired with their own money, they do not look like <br />uniforms. The PPE clothing with the logo really becomes the uniform in public perception. <br />These PPE items are prohibited for personal wear. This is done for two reasons. One, these <br />items are the property of Elk River Municipal Utilities and not employee compensation. Two, <br />the employee become a representative of the Utilities anytime an employee is wearing the logoed <br />PPE clothing in public. <br />Because these items are the property of the Utilities and that there is the potential negative public <br />perception or misuse, these items have been collected when needing replacement. This is <br />dictated by the Clothing Policy. There is not specific language in the Clothing Policy to require <br />employees to turn in the PPE items when leaving employment with Elk River Municipal <br />Utilities. Staff recommends adding such verbiage to the Clothing Policy. The Clothing Policy <br />from the ERMU Handbook with the proposed language is attached for review and consideration. <br />