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Chief Administrative Office recommending the Board adopt and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 158-2022 to approve the addition of 1.0 full time equivalent (FTE) Principal Management Analyst allocation to the Administration and Budget Division of the Chief Administrative Office.
FUNDING: General Fund.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
Dating back to Fiscal Year (FY) 2011-12, staffing levels in the Administration and Budget Division of the Chief Administrative Office (CAO) have fluctuated between eight to ten FTEs. Currently, excluding staff from the Office of Wildfire Preparedness and Resilience, the Division includes the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), 1.0 FTE Assistant CAO, 1.0 FTE Director of Communications and Outreach, 1.0 FTE Deputy CAO, 2.0 FTE Principal Management Analysts, 1.0 FTE Management Analyst, 1.0 FTE Executive Assistant, and 1.0 FTE Administrative Technician, totaling eight FTEs.
Considering a variety of factors as described below, the Chief Administrative Officer is recommending an additional Principal Management Analyst position:
Emergency Response/Recovery
Over the past two to three years, the Director of Communications and Outreach has been assigned to the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to assist with the County’s communication response to COVID, the response and recovery to the Caldor fire, the response to the local emergency declared as a result of winter storms in December 2021/January 2022, and most recently the response and recovery to the Mosquito fire, while also maintaining the essential function of disseminating timely information to the public for other non-emergency topics. While staff has been hopeful this workload would decrease, unfortunately it has not happened and the workload expectations of the Communications and Outreach Manager is simply not sustainable.
In addition, on October 11, 2021, a Management Analyst was assigned full time to the EOC to assist with Caldor recovery efforts. On August 9, 2022, a...
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