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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: April 4, 2000 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. --~-- <br />SUBJECT: Classification Plan Amendment -Social Work Supervisor I and <br />Social Work Pro ram Mana er <br />DEPARTMENT: Social Services and PUBLIC HEARING: (Y1N) No <br />Personnel <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Class Specifications <br />1-Social Work Supervisor I <br />2- Social Work Supervisor II <br />3- Social Work Program Manager <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Marti Pryor-Cook, Social Services Director, <br />extension 2$00 <br />Elaine Holmes, Personnel Director, <br />extension 2550 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 - <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336 227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider amending the Orange County Classification and Pay Plan by: <br />• Establishing a new class of Social Work Supervisor I at Salary Grade 70 and to <br />accommodate this, changing the title of the existing Social Work Supervisor at Salary Grade <br />71 to Social Work Supervisor II, still at Salary Grade 71. <br />• Establishing a new class of Social Work Program Manager at Salary Grade 73. <br />BACKGROUND: Personnel periodically conducts classification studies of specific positions at <br />the initiation of the operating department to review the classification of positions whose duties <br />and responsibilities have changed. Personnel recently completed such a study of six <br />supervisory positions in the Social Services Economic and Family Assistance Division to take <br />account of duty ci~anges resulting from reorganization. Of the six positions studied, Personnel <br />identified four positions as correctly classified and is recommending changes that affect two <br />positions. <br />Social Services Income Maintenance Reorganization <br />In response to the 1996 Welfare Legislation, the Social Services Director in collaboration with <br />staff had assessed the needs of the citizens of Orange County, as well as the organizational <br />structure of the Social Services department. As a result of that assessment, the Director <br />decided that the Social Services' Income Maintenance Division would be more efficient in <br />service delivery and the needs of the citizens of Orange County would be better met if services <br />previously split among several units were consolidated. With the consolidation of services, the <br />