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• <br />Human Rights and Relations — Existing Administrative Assistant II <br />Request: Increase the hours of a permanent part time 30 hour Administrative Assistant II <br />position to permanent full time 40 hours. <br />Purpose: To increase the administrative /clerical support provided to the Human Rights and <br />Relations Department, the Commission for Women and Orange County Human Rights and <br />Relations Commission. <br />Job Functions: <br />❑ Performs case administration duties such as intake, research, data entry, tracking, follow <br />up and preparing a wide range of correspondence and notices. <br />• Answers telephones and receives visitors. Gives information to the public about <br />department or makes appropriate referral. <br />• Arranges meetings and conferences. Prepares minutes for the Commissions. <br />• Administers department business activities including supplies, personnel action forms, <br />budget, leave records and the like. <br />Reason for Request: <br />This position originally was established to serve part time 20 hours as administrative /clerical <br />support for the Commission for Women. Effective July 1, 1993 the Board approved <br />increasing the position from 20 hours to 30 hours per week to support work then in progress <br />on development of the Civil Rights Ordinance. Since then: <br />❑ The Civil Rights Ordinance has been developed and implemented. It now is administered <br />on an on -going basis by the Human Rights and Relations Department including <br />responding to citizen questions, receiving complaints, handling cases and so forth. <br />❑ The Human Rights and Relations Department has become certified as a substantially <br />equivalent agency with both EEOC and HUD, causing a substantial increase in caseload, <br />case management demands and the paperwork generated. <br />❑ The department has added two additional professional staff to do the substantive work, <br />but has not added to the support staff. <br />To meet the current workload, the Human Rights and Relations Department needs additional <br />office coverage and administrative support beyond that provided by the 30 hour position. <br />Among other things, the part-time position has caused a critical need for office coverage <br />between the hours of 3 -5 p.m. The professional staff has had to cut back on time spent on <br />cases to ensure office coverage. <br />40 <br />