Which local government positions are covered by the State Personnel Act?

General Statutes § 126-5(a)(2) provides that the State Personnel Act applies to the employees of county social services departments, county health departments and district health departments, area mental health, developmental disabilities and substance abuse authorities, and to local government employees whose primary job duties involve coordination of the emergency management response and whose salary is funded, in whole or in part, by federal homeland security or emergency management funds.

With respect to local emergency management employees, it is my understanding that it is not the intention of the Office of State Personnel to bring all local government employees who participate in an emergency response (for example, law enforcement or EMS) within the scope of the State Personnel Act. The State Personnel Act is meant to cover employees whose primary job responsibilities are in emergency management coordination, not emergency response. The fact that a fire department or EMS department reports to a person who holds the position of emergency management director or emergency management coordinator does not make fire and EMS workers subject to the State Personnel Act.