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Human Resources Department recommending the Board adopt and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 060-2020, amending the Authorized Personnel Allocation to:
1) Delete a vacant 1.0 FTE Department Analyst I/II position from Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA);
2) Add 1.0 FTE Human Resources Technician position to Human Resources (HR); and
3) Provide authorization to the Director of Human Resources to make, if needed, any technical corrections to the authorized personnel allocations for HHSA and HR.
FUNDING: General fund with partial cost recovery in future years through the A-87 Cost Plan.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) is updating its staffing plan to place a strong emphasis on staff and service integration. This integration includes moving toward a more efficient organization structure to include cross training within the HHSA Personnel Unit. In addition to this staffing update there are several areas of responsibility that have been transferred to Central Human Resources (HR), including recruitment activities, investigations, discipline/performance management, and risk management leave correspondence and tracking. In updating the staffing plan, HHSA is recommending that a vacant 1.0 FTE Department Analyst I/II position be transferred to HR.
In addition, on February 11, 2020, the Board approved the transition out of Merit System Services, allowing the County to administer and manage all County personnel functions currently administered and managed by the California Department of Human Resources, by way of CPS HR Consulting. With HR absorbing these recruitments and administering this program previously handled by Merit System Services, it is anticipated there will be an increase in recruitment and selection workload.
Given the additional workload associated with running the additional recruitments and absorbing the additional areas of responsibilities from HHSA, HR recommends reallocating the vacant 1.0 FTE Dep...
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