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units would shift from the narrower function of providing "income maintenance" toward a broader function of helping public assistance recipients resolve problems as well as meet basic needs. With the reorganization, the Social Services Director centralized services for adults into an Adult Support unit and sewices for families and children into a Family Support unit. Both of these units were located within the Income Maintenance Division (now Economic and Family Assistance Division). - The Adult Support unit encompasses veterans' services, food stamps, long term care services, Medicaid, and the Community Alternative Program (providing in-home, skilled nursing care services). - The Family Support unit encompasses programs such as the Adolescent Parenting, Work First Cash Assistance, Work First Employment, food stamps, Health Choice, and Medicaid for families and children. Following implementation of the reorganization, the Social Services Director asked Personnel to conduct a classification and pay study of six supervisory positions in the Economic and Family Assistance Division. The purpose of the study was to review the impact that the reorganization has had an the duties and responsibilities of these supervisory positions. Personnel has completed this review. Of the six positions, Personnel determined that four are correctly classified and is recommending classification changes for two. These recommended changes are described below: Social Work Supervisor I Prior to the reorganization, one existing Income Maintenance Supervisor position was responsible far managing and supervising Work First Cash Assistance. This involves the initial determination of eligibility, processing, and reviewing the eligibility for public assistance. With the reorganization, this Income Maintenance Supervisor has continued to perform Work First Cash Assistance duties and, in addition, has assumed responsibility for Work First Employment. The Work First Employment duties include: - Managing Work First and ensuring that federal, state and local requirements and policies and procedures are met. Far example, the Federal Government requires that a Work First recipient remain in the program for not more than a total of five years. - Ensuring that opportunities and resources are available to enable parents to obtain employment or the education and skills needed for employment in order to become self- sufficient and self-supporting, thereby improving the quality for children and families. - Supervising Social Workers, as well as continuing to supervise Income Maintenance Caseworkers. Based on the classification review, Personnel recommends that this Income Maintenance Supervisor at Salary Grade 69 be reclassified to a new class of Social Work Supervisor I at Salary Grade 70. This salary grade has a hiring range of $33,774 to $41,051.