Training for city managers and supervisors on alcohol and drug rules

(a) Each management or supervisory officer or employee of the city shall complete a training program on the city’s alcohol and drug abuse policy. The program shall provide each management or supervisory officer or employee with training to properly: (1) Identify officers or employees under the management or supervisory officer’s or employee’s management or supervision who exhibit the signs and symptoms of an alcohol or a drug problem; (2) Refer employees identified under subdivision (1) to city, State, community, or medical resources available for evaluation, diagnosis, counseling, and rehabilitation of persons with drug and alcohol dependency or addiction, as appropriate, including the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of substance abuse professionals, and of counseling and rehabilitation programs; and (3) Inform employees identified under subdivision (1) as to disciplinary and other measures that may be taken if adverse behavior believed to be the result of the abuse of drugs or alcohol, or both, is not corrected. The training program shall include information on alcohol and drug misuse and indicators of probable misuse. (b) Management or supervisory officers or employees having managerial or supervisory control over city officers or employees who are subject to city alcohol or drug-testing policies, or both, shall, in addition to the training provided pursuant to subsection (a): (1) Receive training in the alcohol- or drug-testing policies, or both, applicable to the officers or employees under their management or supervision; and (2) Receive training in the procedures and requirements for documentation of observations that may permissibly lead to an alcohol or drug reasonable suspicion test. (c) Management or supervisory officers or employees having managerial or supervisory control over city officers or employees who are subject to 49 CFR Part 382 shall, in addition to the training pursuant to subsection (b), receive the materials and information enumerated in 49 CFR § 382.601(b) and any additional training deemed necessary by the director of human resources relating to alcohol- and drug-testing policies applicable to the officers and employees subject to 49 CFR Part 382. (d) The training program provided under this section shall be formulated and provided by the department of human resources. (e) (1) For management or supervisory officers or employees who are in a management or supervisory position on July 1, 1998,* the applicable training program shall be provided within one year of July 1, 1998.* (2) For persons elected or appointed to city management or supervisory positions following July 1, 1998,* but who are not subject to subdivision (3) or (4), the training program described in subsection (a) shall be provided within one year of the person’s election or appointment to the position. (3) For city management or supervisory officers or employees appointed to positions with management or supervisory control over city officers or employees subject to the city’s alcohol- or drug-testing policies, or both, following July 1, 1998,* but who are not subject to subdivision (4), the training program described in subsection (b) shall be provided within 60 days of the date of the appointment. (4) For city management or supervisory officers or employees appointed to positions with management or supervisory control over city officers or employees who are subject to alcohol- or drug-testing, or both, under 49 CFR Part 382, the training program described in subsection (c) shall be provided within 60 days of the date of the appointment. (5) For the duration of the management or supervisory officer’s or employee’s employment in the managerial or supervisory position, after the training described in subdivision (1), (2), (3), or (4), whichever applies, the management or supervisory officer or employee shall receive follow-up or refresher training, or both, as deemed necessary by the department of human resources. Editor’s note: * “ July 1, 1998” is substituted for “the effective date of this ordinance.”