DATE: April 25, 2023
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Hollis Magill, Director of Human Resources
SUBJECT: Salary Resolution Amendment
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
TITLE
Approve Salary Resolution Amendment deleting the Executive Secretary - Confidential classification and reclassifying all incumbents to Executive Assistant, effective May 1, 2023, as reflected on Appendix "B".
REPORT
Approval of the recommended action will consolidate the Executive Secretary - Confidential and Executive Assistant classifications into one classification, reclassifying upwards eight Executive Secretary - Confidential incumbents to Executive Assistant positions. There is a $29,315 increase in Net County Cost (NCC) associated with this action. The Executive Secretary - Confidential position will be deleted from all departments. This item is countywide.
ALTERNATIVE ACTION(S):
If your Board were not to approve the recommended action, the existing classification structure would remain unchanged.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is an annual increase of $74,249 ($29,315 in NCC) associated with the recommended action. The total cost for the remainder of FY 2022-23 is approximately $5,711 ($2,255 in NCC), which will be absorbed within the FY 2022-23 Adopted Budgets for each of the eight impacted departments.
DISCUSSION:
The Department of Human Resources completed a classification review of the Executive Secretary and Executive Assistant classifications at the recommendation of Sloan, Sakai, Yeung and Wong, LLP (SSYW), who partnered with the department to audit the County's Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) practices. Consolidation of these two classes into the Executive Assistant job classification, which adequately reflects the latitude of judgment necessary for this function, will allow department heads to continue to work their personal assistants appropriately within the assigned administrative exemption.
Incumbents in Executive Secretary - Confidential positions will be reclassified u...
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