DATE: March 28, 2023
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: David Luchini, RN, PHN, Director, Department of Public Health
SUBJECT: Retroactive Waiver of Extra-Help Maximum Hour Limitation
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
TITLE
Retroactively authorize a waiver of the 28 hours per week and 960 hours per calendar year maximum hours limitation for the Extra Help positions listed on Attachment A in the Department of Public Health, Org 5620, pursuant to the provisions set forth in Salary Resolution, section 1100 and Personnel Rules 2040 and 4240.
REPORT
There is no additional Net County Cost associated with the recommended action. Approval of the recommended action will waive the 28 hours per week and 960 hours per calendar year maximum hours limitation for six extra-help positions to ensure the Department's Community Health and Epidemiology Surveillance and Data Management Divisions have adequate staffing to continue to complete COVID related tasks and data clean up. This item is countywide.
ALTERNATIVE ACTION(S):
There is no viable alternative action due to the need for COVID related tasks and data clean up.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no increase in Net County Cost associated with the recommended action. Sufficient appropriations exist within the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity grant, the Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) grant and the Immunization Local Assistance Grant Funds included in the Department's Org 5620 FY 2022-23 Adopted Budget.
DISCUSSION:
On January 13, 2015 and June 7, 2016, your Board reiterated County policy that the use of Extra Help employees should:
? be of limited duration;
? not be used as a first response to staffing requirements;
? not supplant work regularly performed by permanent employees; and
? only be used to meet the critical, seasonal, or temporary work needs of departments on a limited basis.
In July 2020, the County Administrative Officer (CAO) approved the hiring request to fill thirty (30) Extra-Help Communica...
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