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Child Support Services recommending the Board adopt and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 001-2018, thereby adding one Assistant Director of Child Support Services/Chief Attorney allocation and deleting one Deputy Director of Child Support Services allocation and one Child Support Attorney I-IV allocation, effective January 10, 2018.
FUNDING: No General Fund cost. State and Federal child support funding sources.
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DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDATION
Child Support Services recommending the Board adopt and authorize the Chair to sign the attached Resolution, thereby adding one regular full time Assistant Director of Child Support Services/Chief Attorney allocation to the Child Support Services personnel allocation, and deleting one Deputy Director of Child Support Services allocation and one regular full time Child Support Attorney I-IV allocation, effective January 10, 2018.
DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
The former Deputy Director of Child Support Services retired in 2016. Since this time, the Department has desired to combine that Deputy Director position with one of the Child Support Attorney I-IV positions creating a new classification of Assistant Director of Child Support Services/Chief Attorney.
The Department was not able to move forward with this request earlier due to the Revenue Recovery Reduction in Force (RIF) that occurred in Fiscal Year 2016-17 as a result of the Superior Court of El Dorado decision to terminate their MOU with the Child Support Services Revenue Recovery Division for the collection of court debt effective July 1, 2017 (Legistar item 17-0507). To avoid a layoff situation as a result of the RIF, the Department needed to keep the Deputy Director position vacant in the event that there was a need to use funding from that vacancy to temporarily accommodate one or two Revenue Recovery staff members returning to Child Support Services - the RIF did not result in any layoffs.
Subsequently, on December 29, 2017, one Child Support Attorne...
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