Several citizens speaking out about a change to the 2017 Personnel Rules and Regulations handbook will be one of the topics of discussion during Thursday’s City Council meeting.

Officials will meet at 6 p.m. inside Council Chambers to go over a handful of topics, including looking at amending the handbook to reinstate Good Friday as a city holiday and reduce the number of employee personal days to one.

After a daunting task by the Personnel Advisory Board to make changes to the City of Elizabethton’s employee handbook, board members were praised during last month’s meeting, but citizens took to the floor to address the change of Good Friday.

City Streets and Sanitation Manager Danny Hilbert took to the floor during the previous meeting and thanked the Personnel Advisory Board for their work, but asked for Good Friday to be reinstituted as a City holiday. Others followed suit to ask for the change.

While the other portions of the handbook were OK’ed, the amendment will be look at Thursday.

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In what will be a relatively cut-and-dry meeting according to documents provided by City Hall, the City will also look at approving a new lease agreement with the Elizabethton/Carter County Chamber of Commerce.

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A handful of seasonal-based activities will also be on the approval docket for City Council members, including:

• The annual Harvest Parade Hayride held in conjunction with the East Side Harvest Parade set for Friday, Oct. 27.
• The annual Downtown Halloween Event set for Tuesday, Oct. 31.
• The annual Veterans Day celebration set for Saturday, Nov. 11.
• The annual Fraser Fir tree lighting on Nov. 14 from 4:30 p.m. and Christmas Parade on Dec. 2 from 4 to 8:30 p.m.