Crockett City Council discussed proposed updates to the personnel policy manual and a separate city council procedure and decorum policy during the Nov. 18 meeting and agreed to defer final action to allow council members more time to review a 17-page draft.

Staff said the personnel manual revisions had been brought back after council previously asked for additional review. The city’s presenter described the decorum and procedural draft as a first review that draws on policies used by other Texas cities and adapts them to Crockett’s five-member council with a nonvoting mayor. The document, staff said, is meant to set expectations not contained in the Open Meetings Act or Robert’s Rules of Order, including agenda categorizations (business items, old business, new business), workshop guidance and recommendations for training.

“The agenda as currently built lumps many items into ‘business items,’” a staff member said, adding the draft breaks agendas into clearer categories and recommends regular reports and workshops for training. Councilmembers asked for additional time to examine the 17-page document, which staff offered to circulate and accept markups on.

Council removed the personnel manual updates from the table and placed them back on the agenda for consideration, but members did not adopt the changes at the Nov. 18 meeting. Instead, council directed staff to allow individual review and follow-up discussions, and to return with a revised version for future action.