2011-05-27 Cost of Government Commission Agenda

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2)Restrict the use of county take home vehicles. (January 14, 2011 minutes, page 40) 3)Implement a vehicle pool that would be accessible to all county departments to limit vehicle purchases by individual departments. (April 8, 2011 minutes, page 33) d.Staff consolidations/eliminations and overtime reduction 1) Consolidate the enforcement responsibilities of Planning Department, Building Department, Real Property Tax, Environmental Management and the Department of Health (as contracted to the county)into an enforcement division. (November 17, 2010 minutes, page 21 and Comm. 2010-105) 2) Review and streamline the procedures for disciplining and terminating employees. (January 14, 2011 minutes, page 41) 3) Cross train employees to perform multiple functions within a department. (January 14, 2011 minutes, page 47) 4) Pool clerical staff among departments where possible. (January 14, 2011 meeting, page 47) 5)Recruit and use volunteers and volunteer groups at all levels of County operations. (January 14, 2011 minutes, page 48) 6) Eliminate vacant funded positions. (January 14, 2011 minutes, page 24) 7) Introduce a six month hiring freeze and review it every six months to see if it should be continued.(January 14, 2011 minutes, page 24) 8) Identify all jobs and tasks that are mandated by state and federal governments as well as in the County Charter and consider eliminating positions that don’t fall within those mandates. (January 14, 2011 minutes, page 25) 9) Propose a resolution to the state allowing each county to negotiate collective bargaining contracts on behalf of the county. This would allow the county to be more responsive to the economic conditions and demographics of the areas served. (January 14, 2011 minutes, page 25) 10)Consolidate similar functions such as project managers, engineers, maintenance personnel from various departments into a county-wide pool that all departments can draw from. (January 14, 2011 minutes, page 27) 11)Direct the Human Resources department to examine countywide overtime policies to make sure they are fair, unambiguous and effective in reducing overtime. (January 14, 2011 minutes, page 45 and February 25, 2011 minutes, page 17) 12)Eliminate the Personnel Officer position insmaller departments and designate a specialist in Human Resources to absorb these tasks. (January 14, 2011 minutes, page 42) e.Creation of Positions to Enhance Revenues 1) Create a position dedicated to focusing on health care and education industries. (Operation, Budget and Consolidation subcommittee report on October 8, 2010; and Comm. 2010-123; December 10, 2010 minutes, page 43) 2) Centralize grant writing efforts by creating a Grant Specialist position to work with all departments in the county to improve the county’s ability to receive funds from various sources. (Operation, Budget and Consolidation subcommittee report on October 8, 2010; December 10, 2010 minutes, page 45) 2.Technology Adoption 1) Investigate county employee videotaping of council and committee meetings that would be available online through streaming or via ordering a DVD in lieu of the current contracted videotaping services. This would require timely posting of transcriptions online. This will increase availability to all county residents.(January 9