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�2088.1 <br />January 20, 1988 <br />Mr. J-rry Smith <br />5769 Amy Lane <br />Maple Plain, MN 55359 <br />Subject: Disciplinary Suspension <br />Dear Mr. Smith: , <br />Effective February 8, 1988, the City of Orono will place you <br />on a disciplinary suspension until February 12, 1988. This <br />letter is intended to advise you as to the reasons for your <br />disciplinary suspension. <br />Grounds for Sus ension: <br />You will be suspended because of the totality of your <br />miscondict as summarized below, representing violations of <br />Administrtative and Personnel Policies Section 209(5) (a), <br />(k), (m), (n) and other, good cause for suspension. <br />On a date in :;eptember 1986, and on June 1, 1987, you <br />disregarded your Pmployer's policy prohibiting employees from <br />entering private residences for non -work reasons during work <br />time. Rather than adhere to that policy, you entered a citizen's <br />home on these two separate occasions with no work purpose, <br />leaving your work station without permission to do so. The <br />citizen complained to the City as a result. <br />There are slight differences between the versions of these <br />incidents related by you and by the complaining citizen <br />concerning the reasons for your entering in the first instance <br />and what occurred once you were in the residence. You also deny <br />any entry on June 1, 1987. Nonetheless, the citizen complained, <br />and it is not disputed that you left the work situ without <br />permission, entered the residence on at least one occasion and <br />placed yoursslf in a position which at the very least was <br />embarrassing and inappropriate and represented a serious risk of <br />liability for the City. <br />The nature of your employment position requires that you work <br />independently with minimal supervision. Mhe City must therefore <br />place a high degree of trust in you, and it was that trust which <br />you violated on these two occasions. <br />The incidents described in the preceding paragraphs warrant <br />serious disciplinary action in and of themselves. You engaged in <br />additional miscoundiic•t when you denied any knowledge of the <br />September 1986 incident during your initial interview with Lt. <br />&urt Erickson. Your initial claim tt.at you were not in the <br />esidence in Septemter 1986 constitute additional Bound for <br />nisciplinary suspension. 1t also causes us to believe that you <br />