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Adopt City Council Resolution Modifying Authorized Positions in FY 2016/17 Budget to Remove Water Projects Coordinator Position and Add Associate City Engineer Position
...Summary
The City's Water Projects Coordinator has submitted a notice of resignation effective at the end of October. The City Manager and Assistant Public Works Director met with the Council's Personnel Committee to discuss staff's recommendation that, rather than opening a recruitment for the Water Projects Coordinator position, the City should recruit an Associate City Engineer. The Personnel Committee concurred with staff's recommendation based on the following:
· With some juggling, most of the workload currently assigned to the Water Projects Coordinator can be reassigned to other existing positions in the Public Works Department and to the new Associate City Engineer.
· The Engineering Division has found it challenging to keep the City's many capital projects on track due, in part, to lack of engineering staff. The recent short-term fix of hiring a Temporary Associate City Engineer was short-lived when the new hire found a full-time, permanent, position elsewhere. Having an in-house Associate City Engineer will restore the staffing structure in the Engineering Division to that which was in place prior to elimination of the Associate City Engineer position in 2009-10 (in response to the Great Recession). It will also help reduce the amount that the City spends on outside engineering services which are more costly and oftentimes involve a substantial "learning curve" as the consultants gain familiarity with the City's facilities and procedures.
· While the salary range for the Associate City Engineer positions ($65,359 - $79,445) overlaps with that of the Water Projects Coordinator ($61,345-$74,564), the incumbent in the Water Projects Coordinator position only worked 80% time so the actual salary topped out at $59,652. It also should be noted that the fully-loaded cost of a non-sw...
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