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ME <br />Department <br />Temporary <br />Cost Increase <br />Recreation & Parks <br />$10,740 <br />Register of Deeds <br />$17,163 <br />Sheriff <br />$18,601 <br />Social Services <br />$1,822 <br />Tax Assessor <br />$3,556 <br />Tax Collector /Revenue <br />$1,651 <br />Total <br />$214,718 <br />Offsetting decreases in other <br />departments <br />($130,104) <br />Net Increase (other than Emergency <br />Transportation) <br />$84,614 <br />Temporary Wage Costs As Compared to Other Staffing Approaches <br />As will be noted in reviewing the examples of needs /issues leading to the overtime, <br />there are a variety of needs leading to the use of temporary employees: <br />• Absences of existing staff because of extended leaves for illness, injury or other <br />personal issues. <br />Coverage for position vacancies and training of new employees. <br />Staffing for seasonal needs. <br />• Staffing for special projects that cannot be completed with existing staff. <br />Transitional staffing while program needs are assessed. <br />• Increases in workload resulting from growth, addition of new job functions, changes <br />in job functions or the like. <br />The Board had asked the impacts of using temporary staffing to meet work needs as <br />compared to other staffing approaches such as additional permanent staffing. The <br />major impacts of hiring temporary employees are outlined below: <br />Assuming temporary staff with the necessary skills can be recruited, provides a <br />readily available means to cover for absences, short term needs, workload increases <br />needing to be immediately addressed or the like. <br />• May not be possible to recruit employees with the necessary job skills or training, <br />particularly for higher level, more skilled or technical positions. <br />