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Human Resources Department recommending the Board:
1) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 044-2025 adopting a new salary scale for the Investigative Assistant II retroactive to February 22, 2025 through April 18, 2025; and
2) Waive recovery of overpayment totaling approximately $12.80 made to the four employees in the Investigative Assistant II classification, as payment at the time had been made in accordance with the errant salary schedule previously in effect, and it is likely that the staff time incurred to attempt to recover the overpayment would exceed the amount of overpayment.
FUNDING: General Fund.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
On February 11, 2025, the Board of Supervisors (Board) approved and adopted the new classification and salary ranges of Investigative Assistant I/II; approved the abolishment of the classification of Investigative Assistant; and due to lateral reclassification, approved the deletion of 5.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) Investigative Assistant positions (4.0 - District Attorney and 1.0 - Public Defender) and the addition of 5.0 FTE Investigative Assistant I/II positions. These actions were effective the pay period beginning February 22, 2025.
It was the intent of Human Resources that the salary scale for new Investigative Assistant II classification be identical to the County’s former classification of Investigative Assistant, and that the 5.0 FTE positions and incumbents be laterally reclassified, with the salary to be set consistent with Personnel Rule 612.1, Lateral Reclassification. However, an administrative oversight has been identified in which the salary scale presented by Human Resources and approved by the Board misrepresented steps 4 and 5 for the newly adopted classification of Investigative Assistant II, due to a miscalculation/rounding error of the set percentage between steps, which created a violation of Personnel Rule 507.3 surrounding lateral reclassifications which states that a class stud...
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