2024-06-25 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board June 25, 2024 So, this consultation with the union is required because these employees would be in BU3 but we will be providing them higher level training and higher level duties that would normally fall under Bargaining Unit 13. So we, essentially, developed a supplemental agreement with the union that acknowledges that we're promoting this employee, working out of class, to gain work experience so that they can be considered for professional -level work that would ordinarily require a 4 -year degree or equivalent. So, it's an attempt to bridge the gap—for whatever reason, some people may have a two-year degree and not be able to continue their education or choose not to. And so, this is a means of providing a career path and training partnership and mentorship with our departments to, again, provide more opportunity but also a new talent pipeline for the County. So, we'd be looking specifically at students from HCC that saying, "Hey, these are jobs that we have at the County." So, we worked with departments to develop a list of career path positions. So, everything from Geographic Information Systems Analyst to Accountant I could provide you the list at a future meeting. But we've been working on this program for several months and we're excited. Also, in the Recruitment and Examination Division because it's actually a recruitment program that we finalized the policy and a procedure for the training program and we're ready to begin an initial cohort. We're asking the departments to provide us a memo indicating their interest in providing this internship opportunity and they need to identify what specific career path would be identified for that position. And then, we could begin the recruitment process. So, that's an exciting thing for HR and I'm happy to see that that got finalized in June. I wanted to follow-up—you folks received the list of continuous recruitments because in the meeting—in our last meeting, we were talking about the variety of positions that are on our continuous recruitment list. So, some of these are lower -level positions—Account Clerk, for example, that would be a position that, under normal circumstances, we wouldn't see on a continuous recruitment list. But because of the number of vacancies that we have in the County for that position and difficulty creating an eligible list of qualified applicants that's why it's converted to continuous. So, you have positions, like, Account Clerk—but then, it also is positions like Accountant V, our Legal Clerk at all levels; with the new Animal Control and Protection Agency, we have Animal Control and Protection Officers, Purchasing Agent, Radio Technician. So, there's a broad variety and broad range of positions on our continuous list right now. So, it's not all necessarily the higher level positions. It just depends on how many qualified applicants that we've gotten. If we haven't—if we don't have a list of 5 or more, then the opening goes to continuous recruitment. Page 8