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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: December 14, 2010 Action Agenda Item No. ~ - (~ SUBJECT: 2010-11 County Employee Performance Award DEPARTMENT: County Manager, Human PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No Resources, & Financial Services ATTACHMENT(S): October 2010 County Position Vacancy Report INFORMATION CONTACT: Frank Clifton, County Manager, 245- 2306 Michael McGinnis, Human Resources, 245-2550 Clarence Grier, Financial Services, 245- 2150 PURPOSE: To consider approval of a "non-recurring" one-time performance award for qualifying County employees. BACKGROUND: County employees as a whole did not receive any increases in compensation during the current or last fiscal year. A fairly limited number of employees being reclassified or promoted have seen a change in their compensation base according to a change in status. However, on the whole, County employees' compensation has remained constant since FY 2008-09, and it is unlikely that economic conditions will change significantly enough to budget any increase for County employee compensation in FY 2011-12 (beginning in July 2011). During this fiscal year's budget process, no increased employee compensation was included. However, the Manager and Financial Services Director did propose to the Board that the County look at the issue during the year to gauge if some `non-recurring' employee financial recognition could be considered. The County is not quite at the mid-year point (December 31), but the Manager is pleased to recommend an item for the Board's consideration in recognition of overall performance by County employees. To clarify how and why this proposal is possible, some background on the accomplishments by the County thus far should be noted. First, it should be understood that revenues have not greatly exceeded expectations, but they have met projections.