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Orange County <br />Board of Commissioners <br />Action Agenda Item Abstract <br />Meeting Date: November 3, 1999 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~--~ <br />Subject: Personnel Ordinance Addition -Multi-Lingual Recruitment and Hiring <br />Department: Personnel Public Hearing: Yes No X <br />Budget Amendment <br />Needed:. Yes No X <br />Attachment(s): <br />Draft Addition to the Orange County <br />Personnel Ordinance -Article II, <br />Recruitment and Selection <br />Information Contact: <br />Elaine Holmes, Personnel Director <br />Extension 2550 <br />Telephone Number: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 227-2031 <br />Purpose: To consider adding amulti-lingual recruitment and hiring policy to <br />the Orange County Personnel Ordinance. <br />Background: As part of the 1999-00 goal setting process, the Board of Commissioners <br />adopted an "Hispanic-Latino Relations" goal. Among other things, this provides for the <br />"development of an affirmative multi-lingual hiring policy for Orange County employment. <br />Attached is a draft multi-lingual recruitment and hiring policy. <br />The draft policy would cover positions that provide direct, critical services to client <br />groups that regularly include Spanish-speaking clients. Examples of such positions <br />could include certain Social Workers, Public Health Nurses, Paramedics, and <br />receptionists for critical services and the like. For such positions the County would <br />incorporate a stated preference for candidates with bi-lingual language skills in <br />English and Spanish in the job announcement and employment advertising for the <br />opening. <br />The outcome sought is to increase the number of Spanish speaking employees in the <br />work force as part of the broader effort to provide information and materials in <br />Spanish for the rapidly growing Latino population in Orange County. <br />In terms of affirmative recruitment for candidates with such skills, the County in its job <br />recruitment has and will pursue additional outreach to the Hispanic-Latino community. <br />These efforts include: <br />^ Participation in the La Fiesta Del Pueblo job fair to promote awareness of Orange <br />County as an area employer and attendance at other events as identified. <br />