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-2- <br />• Each department head is responsible for assuring that expenditures for temporary <br />staff are within the funds available. <br />Temporary Staffing <br />The chart below shows the number of temporary appointments currently existing on the <br />County's payroll system. Please note that this does not represent the number of <br />temporary employees actually working each workweek since many of these are <br />employees who are available on a call in, substitute, seasonal or other periodic basis <br />such as in Emergency Transportation to assure adequate coverage can be maintained <br />24 hours a day for seven days a week. Attachment 1 shows this information by <br />department as well as major function. <br />Function <br />Total Temp <br />Employees <br />Community & Environment <br />5 <br />General Services <br />18 <br />Governing & Management <br />4 <br />Human Services <br />129 <br />Public Safety <br />88 <br />Solid Waste <br />15 <br />Total <br />259 <br />In summary, over 80 percent of temporary employees are employed in Human Services <br />and Public Safety. <br />Temporary Wage Expenditures <br />Attachment 2 shows the temporary wage expenditures for 2002 -03 and 2003 -04 by <br />department, by major function and total. These are the expenditures from all fund <br />sources (County general fund and others). Attachment 3 compares expenditures by <br />major function for these two years. <br />The expenditures by major function and percent of total are below: <br />Function <br />2002 -03 <br />2003 -04 <br />Amount <br />Percent <br />Amount <br />Percent <br />Community & Environment <br />43,579 <br />3,0 <br />75,892 <br />3.9 <br />General Services <br />302,491 <br />21.0 <br />259,093 <br />13,5 <br />Governing & Management <br />69,946 <br />4.7 <br />63,324 <br />3.3 <br />Human Services <br />619,367 <br />42.0 <br />696,637 <br />36,2 <br />Public Safety <br />319,847 <br />21.7 <br />721,284 <br />37.4 <br />Solid Waste <br />120,018 <br />81 <br />109,871 <br />57 <br />