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Chair Jacobs asked that the County Manager let the department heads know about the possibility of having to cut department budgets by one percent. Commissioner Gordon asked that the County Commissioners be informed what is being cut from each department budget. b. New Staff Resources/Changes to Existing Positions John Link summarized his recommendation for new positions. Health —Social Worker— Intensive Psychosocial Counselor Health Director Rosemary Summers said that the purpose of this position is to improve health outcomes for pregnant mothers and their unborn children by providing intensive psychosocial counseling services. This is a part-time position with off-setting revenues of$25,200. Information Systems — IS Support Technician and Business Systems Analyst Rod Visser made reference to Kevin Fitzgerald's report and the need for six additional information technology positions to manage migration from mainframe applications, support department users and support the transition to eGovernment, including web based applications. This recommendation would set aside money when funds become available during the course of the year so that three of the six positions could be added. Rod Visser said that further discussion with department heads would be done to determine the most important needs in the County. Commissioner Halkiotis said that when Kevin Fitzgerald did his report, one thing that was brought up was other positions that have technology experience. There is one that supports the Register of Deeds, one in the Library and one for Human Services. He asked for a job description of all three of these positions to see if there is any possibility of putting all these positions under one umbrella. John Link said that staff would examine other possible configurations next fall, which will be brought back to the County Commissioners as recommended by Kevin Fitzgerald. Recreation and Parks — Parks Services Assistant and Parks Services Technician John Link said that the two parks and recreation positions are to maintain the parks we are building. This would be to establish a reserve fund within the Recreation and Parks General Fund budget that would be available to create two full-time, permanent positions to address park maintenance. Personnel Director Elaine Holmes said that they are beginning recruitment of the new parks and recreation director and that person would hire these two new positions. Commissioner Gordon said that she is not sure she would add these positions before making the cuts as indicated by the County Manager tonight. This would need to be a decision by the County Commissioners. Commissioner Brown asked about the development of the plan for the two houses on the park sites and if the maintenance of these homes would be a responsibility of these two positions. Environment and Resource Conservation Director David Stancil said that they are working on a caretaker policy and will have it ready for Board decision within the next week. Health —Senior Public Health Educator for the Child Health Awareness Program This position request is to extend a time-limited position for the Senior Public Health Educator position that administers the Community Health Awareness Program. Health Director Rosemary Summers said that this position is now grant-funded through the Smart-Start Program and is very successful. The Health Department has received preliminary funding approval from the Orange County Partnership for Young Children to continue the program for fiscal year 2002-03. This grant would provide the personnel costs of$47,149 but would not provide operating costs of$6,300.