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FROM: Supervisor Tom Torlakson Contra
Costa
DATE: November 19 , 1985 County
SUBJECT: PROHIBITION OF SMOKING IN OUR POLICE AND
FIRE DEPARTMENTS
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: In the past I have brought up questions
regarding how far we could go in prohibiting smoking with new
employees in our police and fire departments. The police contract in
Holden, Massachusetts apparently goes to the full extent in this
regard ( see news article below) . Can we go further in our own county?
What has been proposed at the bargaining table so far? What further
steps can be taken?
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Refer to the County Administrator, County
Counsel and Sheriff the contract in Holden, Massachusetts, to review
and report back on its applicability for Contra Costa County.
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Page 8A—Contra Costa Times Sunday, November 17, 1985
Pofluipe cnt -ct lbans smoking
The New York Times but the last two smokers among the Ball,the shop steward for the union,
17 full-time police officers in Hold- an affiliate of the American Federa-
HOLDEN, Mass. — New police en, a suburb of 14,000 people seven tion of State, County and Municipal
officers here will not be allowed to miles northwest of Worcester in Employees.
l smoke - not in the police station central Massachusetts;quit smoking "Personally, I don't care 'for '
- nor in a cruiser, not on the street earlier this year. smoking," Ball said. "To ride in a
nor even in the. privacy of their ' "The contract was approved in cruiser with a smoker for eight
I homes. August by a vote of 16 to 1,and the hours, in the wintertime with the
i The town announced Thursday dissenter voted against it for rea- windows rolled up, is uncomfort-
that a new contract with its police sons unrelated to the ban on smok- able. I think a lot of police officers
officers provided that officers hired ing, according to Patrolman Donald will silently applaud it."
after Sept. 5 must be non-smokers
and that those hired as non-smokers,
can be disciplined or dismissed if I
they start to smoke. Town officials
and the union said they thought it
was the first such contract in the
nation.
Current employees are excluded,
AWL
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CC: County Administrator ATTESTED
County Counsel Phil Batchelor, Clerk of the Board of
Sheriff-Coroner Supervisors and County Administrator
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