Policy Paper #1 Imagine you are a City Manager in the era of COVID-19, you need

Policy Paper #1
Imagine you are a City Manager in the era of COVID-19, you need to write a policy paper outlining whether you will or will not be mandating COVID-19 vaccines for City staff. You must clearly explain “the why” for your course of action.
Consider the following factors when writing your paper:
Your City has over 100 employees, therefore you meet the employee threshold requirement in the Federal mandate.
Most Local Governments have labor contracts in place with various unions, what are some potential ramifications?
Your City employee vaccination rate is 50%. You literally have half of your employees who believe the vaccine mandate is a good thing and half of your employees that hate it. Think about what the impacts of your policy position will have on City staff in terms of:Services: If the majority of your unvaccinated employees work in critical service areas i.e. police/fire/public works/electric, what are the potential impacts a vaccine mandate would have? What if the opposite is true and your vaccinated employees are those who work in critical service areas?
What would a vaccine mandate, or not having one, do to recruitment and retention?
What are some other pros and cons of having and not having a vaccine mandate? i.e. a high percentage of unvaccinated City employees could have a negative impact on City health insurance costs?
Will your policy have an end date? Or is it effective in perpetuity?
Keep in mind, there are certain positions in City Government that have vaccine mandates due to their work environment and the things they are exposed to. For example: waste water treatment plant employees typically need to have hepatitis vaccines, building maintenance mechanics who work on HVAC systems typically need to be vaccinated to guard against legionnaires disease.
If you decide to mandate a COVID-19 vaccine, will you consider mandates for other things? i.e. flu vaccine mandate
Please note: Some of you mentioned the desire for a grading rubric for these assignments. I can tell you from personal experience, rubrics do not really exist for stuff like this. Policy is often communicated to staff via e-mail (more often than not the draft of that e-mail took a few days) or in memo form. So for this assignment, pretend you are drafting a memo to your City council explaining your positions as City manager on the subject above.
You will write three, 2 pages. (double spaced, Arial 11 pt. font) papers summarizing, analyzing, and dealing with an issue. Please write an answer about this question.
Thanks.