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INTRODUCTION OF COMMISSIONERSPage 13 of 29 SANTANGELO: Yeah, and mainly because of your attorney skills and having worked with that. HERKES: Are we talking about the secretary or the attorney? SANTANGELO: Both, because I thought we could get the attorney’s matter out of the way and then we could deal with the secretary, because it seems to me, we’ve got one person doing something for us, we’re going to need to get on that secretary. If we set up a committee to select an attorney, that would be underway, they could take from now until June to do that and then we could move on to the secretary. YOSHIYAMA: I did some research looking at the job classification for Secretary to Board and Commissions. Within the Civil Service, there is such a job a secretary to Boards/Commissions. It is established as a SR-18, and I have the monthly range. If this position were to be 20 hours of more a week, and I believe that we gotta go through certain steps in hiring someone. That is for 20 hours or more, this is a Civil Service job. BALOG: That Secretary to the Board of Commission is just for secretarial services? Maybe you could share that information you have because my thinking is to get someone who is not just there to do shorthand and send out report. That kind of leans toward what John is saying about getting someone to help the attorney’s committee. Personally, I’d like to see a secretary who could handle legal research. RAY: I think Mr. Balog is suggesting more a paralegal secretary. So, Gary, is that a problem under that classification, to seek somebody with those types of skills? YOSHIYAMA: Legal research? There’s a Paralegal classification, SR-21. KUROZAWA: Is this person going to be under the County, or just a temporary emergency hire, or are they going to be under the Union? YOSHIYAMA: This would be a included position, meaning it would be a bargaining unit position. If again, you go 20 hours or more. BALOG: If we hire just a secretary, not a paralegal. YOSHIYAMA: Paralegal, you may still. It’s a bargaining unit. BALOG: Do you guys have any guidelines for paralegals? KUROZAWA: The thing you have to be careful with is if it’s fully under the Union, they may come in with only certain job descriptions and refuse to do everything else. BALOG: That’s my question about the secretary’s position. SANTANGELO: And I’d like to not let this commission get too far away of the importance of sound legal advice, and frankly, lets not underestimate the job of keeping minutes for this commission, because we don’t know about special meetings and I know that on the Council, it’s always been a struggle to have the minutes within the last six months, never mind the next month. file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 2-20-99.html7/1/2011