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Environmental Management Department recommending the Board adopt and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 136-2019 to amend the Authorized Personnel Allocation, adding one Sr. Vector Control Technician - Limited Term position in the Environmental Management Department.
FUNDING: Non-General Fund, County Service Area No. 3 - Vector Control funds.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
During the Fiscal Year 2019-20 budget development process, the Environmental Management Department (Environmental Management) submitted a supplemental budget request to reclassify 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) Limited Term Vector Control Technician I/II positions to the classification of Sr. Vector Control Technician. Due to unanticipated complications and delays involved with this request, the change was not addressed during the Board’s adoption of the Fiscal Year 2019-20 Recommended Budget.
The Human Resources Department (Human Resources) conducted an analysis to potentially reclassify the two (2) current Vector Control Technician I/II positions to Sr. Vector Control Technicians, and ultimately provided a recommendation to Environmental Management to request one (1) Sr. Vector Control Technician - Limited Term allocation which would be assigned to the South Lake Tahoe Vector Control Program. Human Resources recommended that a competitive process to fill the new allocation take place, rather than reclassifying both existing positions. As such, Environmental Management is seeking the Board’s consideration at this time for the addition of 1.0 FTE Sr. Vector Control Technician - Limited Tem position which will provide for an additional lead position under the South Lake Tahoe Vector Control Program.
The 1.0 FTE Sr. Limited Term Vector Control Technician - Limited Term will spend a preponderant amount of time functioning as a lead (over five staff), take on the most complex and specialized vector control and maintenance duties, provide technical training for new field staff on the u...
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