When Karen Hinkley watched Belmont City Manager Miles Braswell describe the city’s new personnel policy at a March meeting, she remembers thinking it was almost refreshing to see council members approve what seemed like an employee-focused policy that embraced better benefits.

“I was kind of surprised … Hearing Miles’ presentation of the policy that he gave on March 3, it almost sounds progressive,” she said. “Then I found out later, mostly because other citizens started to kind of become aware of these changes. I was nudged to give this whole thing a close look and that is when I realized, oh my goodness, there were these previous protections, and now they are not there.”

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