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V~ 1~ti~ MINUTES ORAIdGF COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS BUDGET WORK SESSION JUNE 6, 1985 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met on June 6n 1985, 7:30 p.m. in the Courtroom of the old Post Office in Chapel 'gill for a budget work session. C SIGN PRB Chair Don Willhoit and Commissioners Shirley Marshall, Moses Carey, &en Lloyd and Norman Walker. T. Geoffrey Gledhill. STAFF PRESENT :_ County PSanager Kenneth R. Thompson. Assistant County Manager Albert Kittrell, Director of Personnel Beverly Whitehead. Director of Finance Gordon Baker, Sheriff Lindy Pendergrass, Director of EMS bobby Baker, Financial Analyst Donna Clayton and Clerk to the Board Beverly A. Blythe. Chair Willhoit announced that the meeting would cover the implications or' the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Sheriff's budget and the revenues and pro- posed changes from the current year. A determination needs to be made from which agencies additional information is desired. Kenneth Thompson reported on the implications of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The departments most affected are those in the public safety area. Every effort will be made not to work anyone over the number of hours allotted. However, money will be put in the budget for areas whew overtime cannot be eliminated. There is a reporting procedure involved. Additional information is yet to be received from the Department of Labor. Beverly Whitehead indicated a review of all the overtime practices of each department was made and a determination made of what departments had overtime and if a schedule change should be made to eliminate the use of such overtime. The total amount of money in the Manager's recpmmended budget for overtime is $72,03D. Plowever, a meeting with the Department of Labor indicated that additional money would be necessary in the amount of $39,400. The question remains for the Emergency Pianagement Services Department of whether paid personnel may volunteer far the rescue squad. The Labor Department interpretation is that the volunteer hours must be paid at time.and one half. Bobby Baker explained that active employees also serve as volunteers. Because o£ a lack of trained volunteers it would present a problem if the active employees who are also volunteers had to be paid at time and one half. Commissioner Marshall indicated that a restructuring may need to be considered. It does not make sense to extend hours and pay time by one half if other people could be employed. She stressed the importance of working with the employees. Geoffrey Gledhill gave background information on the Garcia decisioa and indicated that the 1985 decision overruled the 1976 Usery vs. NLC decision and states that Congress does have the power to regulate fair labor standards for state and local governments. The Garcia decision applies to all employees in the workforce including local government employees. Labor Department inter- pretatioas of the decision are still being received. r Sheriff Pendergrass indicated that people working a regular schedule of G2 hours a week will be making more money than his employees. After further dis- cussion it ~>as decided that the jab designs would need to be reviewed and changes made, if necessary, to comply with the Fair Labor Standards Act. Sheriff Pendergrass noted that the primary objective and goal of the 4hn iff re Te„arr,..ent to rnnti ne.e rho nroaant lavPl nF~~ti VitV and Rpi'V 1Ce&