HB493 Summary

• Amends Section 45-2-120.12 of the Code of Alabama 1975 to designate the budget director and communication and information systems director as contract employees in Baldwin County.

• Adds these two positions to the existing list of appointed contract employees including county administrator, emergency management director, juvenile detention director, personnel director, building official, clerk/treasurer, county engineer, and development and environmental director.

• Requires all contract employees to include minimum provisions covering termination, severance, job descriptions, annual written evaluations, and contract renewal procedures within 90 days of successor commission elections.

• Protects contract employees from dismissal or contract non-renewal except by a three-fourths vote of the elected county commission members.

• Becomes effective immediately upon passage and approval by the Governor.