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1 <br /> ORANGECOUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: March 21, 1995 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item# ut-D <br /> SUBJECT: Personnel Ordinance Revision-Trainee Appointments <br /> DEPARTMENT: Personnel PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Elaine Holmes, Personnel Director <br /> Draft Revisions to Personnel Ordinance, Extension 2550 <br /> Article II, Trainee Appointment and <br /> Article V, Salary of Trainee TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Chapel Hill - 967-9251/9684501 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider draft revisions to the Orange County Personnel Ordinance <br /> sections covering "Trainee Appointment" and "Salary of Trainee." These <br /> are proposed to support appointment of an Environmental Health Specialist <br /> Trainee in the Orange County Health Department. <br /> BACKGROUND: The Board of Commissioners approved a new Environmental Health <br /> Specialist position effective in December 1994. That new position has been <br /> filled by an internal transfer of an Environmental Health Specialist. <br /> Personnel has recruited extensively for the remaining vacant Environmental <br /> Health Specialist position. Over the last four months, recruitment has not <br /> yielded a candidate who is available for employment and meets the <br /> minimum education and experience requirements for the position. <br /> In general, counties in North Carolina have had difficulty filling <br /> Environmental Health Specialist positions. This is due in part to the <br /> minimum qualification requirements mandated by Article 4, Chapter 90A of <br /> the General Statutes of North Carolina. <br /> The North Carolina Association of County Commissioners 1995 Legislative <br /> Goals supported by the Board of Directors for consideration included a <br /> proposed goal to: <br />