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Amendment to Class and Comp Plan and Budget December 15, 2020 Page 2 In the Fiscal Year 2019-20 budget, the City Council approved the addition of a Management Aide position to the Public Works Administrative Services Division, Refuse Enterprise. This position was added to provide staff support to address expanding refuse -related legislative mandates and new program implementation. However, upon further consideration it was determined that the Public Works Projects Specialist job classification would be more appropriate given that the position supervisor is a Projects Manager and the job description aligns more closely to the duties to be assigned. With approval from the City Council, this position will provide assistance needed in the Refuse Enterprise using a job classification in the correct job family, and will create a career ladder to position the Public Works Projects Specialist for future promotional opportunities. The Executive Director of Public Works is also requesting a reclassification in its Engineering Services Division. In the Fiscal Year 2020-21 budget, the Engineering Services Division reorganized to combine the traditional Design Engineering and Construction Engineering sections into a unified Capital Improvement Project Delivery function. The reorganization establishes three Capital Delivery Teams to streamline operations and maximize project cohesiveness from design concept to construction completion. To provide adequate staffing of the Capital Delivery Teams, the Public Works Agency is requesting Council approval to reclassify a vacant, funded Engineering Technician position to an Assistant Engineer position. Approval of this recommendation will provide the appropriate engineering support for delivering capital projects. Finally, the Police Chief is requesting to use existing part-time funding to fund a new Human Resources Specialist position to support operations in the Police Department's Human Resources section. This request is timed with the departure of two part-time employees and the opportunity to replace them with an appropriate full-time job classification that will permit the assignment of a greater scope of work and responsibility. This new position will provide assistance in a variety of human resources areas including employee performance appraisal processing, personnel file maintenance, injured employee tracking, and completion of paperwork to effect personnel compensation changes. This request is supported by the City's Human Resources Department, which conducted an analysis of the work performed by the departing part-time employees and confirmed that the duties performed conform to the title Human Resources Specialist. FISCAL IMPACT Both the Management Aide (Refuse Enterprise) and Engineering Technician (Engineering Services) positions are new positions that have not been previously filled. Salary savings from these vacant positions will be used to fund the reclassified labor costs for the remaining seven months of this fiscal year. 55B-2