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their benefits and receive the benefits to which they are entitled, Employment Officer Katherine Cathey presently is helping six employees with immigration issues which are complex but support the County's workforce diversity objective. Employee Relations Officer Kathleen Goodhand spends many hours helping individual employees and their supervisors work through performance or conduct issues, seeking a successful outcome far both the employee and the County, Classification and Pay Manager Elgin Lane spent many hours individually with employees and supervisors working through the Classification and Pay Study results, At the same time, the employee group as a whole has major service needs. Examples of these are reflected in many of the new programs and initiatives added such as the Classification and Pay Study and implementation of the Family and Medical Leave Act. Beyond this, Personnel provides support to the department heads, Manager and County Gommissioners in the needs, programs and initiatives that are identified, A sampling of these include development of pay and benefits analyses and recommendations, Spanish Language training, bi-lingual recruitment, 401 (k) County contribution, transition of organizations into the County such as the Animal Shelter and like, The Personnel Department needs the proposed position to sustain the levels of service required and expected by those we serve, Offsetting Funding For the Position The projected annual cost of the position is 45 687 (salary and benefits), To offset the cost of the position, Personnel reduced its current budget by 26 032, Of this $26,032, $7,500 was comprised of funds that had been budgeted in Personnel's contract personnel services and $18, 532 was funds that had been budgeted in the Personnel Department's temporary wages. These are finds that have existed in the Personnel budget for about five years, To the extent possible, Personnel had used these temporary and contract personnel funds to try to help address workload through use of MPA interns, some temporary staff and some small contracts for services. This has not been a successful approach in addressing the workload because it does not provide far the continuity, knowledge and skill needed to effectively serve employees and supervisors. FINANCIAL IMPACT: Based an the proposed start date of October 1, 2004, the Manager's Recommended Budget requested a net amount of $14,741 to fund the position for 2004••05, With the adoption of the approved budget for 2004-05, the Board of Commissioners set aside this amount ($14,741) along with the amount ($19,524) for the position from the existing Personnel budget in reserve pending the Board's further consideration of the position request. If the position is not approved and the Board wishes to retain Personnel Department support at least at the level the department had prior to making the permanent position request, the Board would need to release the $19,524 in existing funds used to offset the position cost to the Personnel Department far use as temporary and contract personnel funding. RECOMMENDATION(S): The County Manager recommends that the Board approve the proposed new Human Resources Technician position effective October 1, 2004,