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O R A N G E C O U N T Y <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 5, 1990 <br />Action Age a <br />d <br />Item # A <br />SUBJECT: Classification Study - Phase I Report <br />DEPARTMENT: Personnel PUBLIC HEARING: _X —Yes No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Phase I Final Report John M. Link, Jr. <br />(under separate cover) <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough - 732 -8181 <br />Durham - 688 -7331 <br />Mebane- 227 --2031 <br />Chapel Hill- 967 - 9251/968 -4501 <br />PURPOSE: To make a report on the completion of Phase I of the <br />Classification Study. <br />BACKGROUND: On November 21, 1989, the Orange County Board of <br />Commissioners approved the classification study and <br />accepted the funding for the same from Z. Smith Reynolds <br />Foundation. The Classification plan is a basic tool of <br />personnel management. It provides an organized, systematic <br />approach to defining positions and their duties and setting <br />rates of pay. The primary purpose of the study was to <br />review and evaluate all positions to determine the proper <br />position classification and salary grade for each position <br />and prepare new job specifications for each class of <br />positions based upon current job duties and requirements. <br />The study also determined if salary ranges were competitive <br />within the area labor market, thus enabling the recruitment <br />and retention of qualified employees for all positions. <br />The classification study was not a means of raising <br />employee salaries. The number of actual salary increases <br />were minimal. <br />We have now completed Phase I of this study. There were <br />approximately 290 employees included in this phase. Of <br />this number, approximately 124 employees are recommended <br />for an increase in the salary grade assignment for their <br />position while only 9 employees are recommended for a <br />decrease in grade assignment. Of those employees whose <br />positions are recommended for salary grade increases, only <br />those whose positions are moving to a higher salary grade <br />as a result of a reclassification or those whose current <br />salaries are below the minimum of the new grade, will <br />receive a salary increase. <br />1 <br />