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I1 ORANGE C O U N T Y - BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: January 19, 1993 - Action Agenda Item # V8- SUBJECT: Library Employee Transition to Orange County Employee Status DEPARTMENT: Personnel PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: Elaine Holmes, Personnel Director None TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough - 732-8181 Durham - 688-7331 Mebane - 227-2031 Chapel Hill - 967-9251/968-4501 PURPOSE: To propose several exceptions to the Orange County Personnel Ordinance to facilitate the transition of Orange County Library employees to Orange County employee status and to update the Board on this transition. BACKGROUND: In follow up to the resolutions approved by the Board of County Commissioners and the Hyconeechee Regional Library Board of Trustees, the Orange County Library will become a department of Orange County local government. With this change, the Library employees will become Orange County employees. It is planned that this change will occur effective March 1, 1993 . When the Library employees become Orange County employees, they will be covered by all provisions of the Orange County Personnel Ordinance, the Orange County Classification and Pay Plan, the Orange County employee benefits plan, and the related personnel/ payroll systems and procedures . Library and Orange County Personnel staff have compared Library and Orange County personnel policies and benefits to assess the impact on employees . Personnel held a general orientation session with employees following the Board of Commissioners adoption of the resolution to establish the Library as a County department. In that session Personnel reviewed the key policy and benefit changes anticipated and the planned communication and other activities to make the change to Orange