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minutes 02-09-00Page 14 of 41 <br />Pay Plan that I promulgate. <br />HERKES: Okay. So basically, it’s a classification. I have a question also about half-time and part-time positions. What does <br />the County need doctors for? <br />BEN: They’re primarily involved in conducting our pre-employment physicals, plus the annual physicals that a lot of <br />occupations require, such as Police. Police have annual physicals, as well as firefighters, I believe, have physicals every two <br />years, in addition to referrals that may be made for determining whether or not employees are physically capable of <br />performing their duties and responsibilities. <br />HERKES: Have you ever done any cost benefit studies on whether it’s more effective, or more cost beneficial to the <br />taxpayers, to have them on staff rather than send them to doctors in the community? <br />BEN: We did a study back in ‘90 or ‘91, just on the issue of pre-employment physicals alone, and based on the going rate for <br />pre-employment physicals in the private sector, yes, it was more cost effective to have them on staff, yes. <br />HERKES: On staff? Okay. <br />IRVINE: Might I suggest that the current rate is quite a bit less now. Being I physician’s wife, I know. So you might look <br />into that again. <br />RAY: John. <br />SANTANGELO: Ben, one of the things, I don’t know if we’ve covered it yet, and we were trying to cover it, but I know <br />when we were on the Council, we’d go through a lot of these salaries and these Union negotiations, but there was always this <br />group of people that came to us that was never represented by some sort of bargaining unit that some how, kind of, were left <br />out on their own. Can you help elaborate on that so that we may want to include that in this Salary Commission? <br />BEN: If you’re talking about the cost items you approve for this second group, I’m not sure who you’re exactly - <br />SANTANGELO: They’re salary. They weren’t Department Heads. They weren’t represented by HGEA. <br />BEN: There is legal authority for paying every employee that the County has. Back to these employees who are not covered <br />by Collective Bargaining Agreements, there is a provision in law that directs the Chief Executives of each County to grant, or <br />set the salaries, or increase benefits by Executive order, so it always came to the County Council for approval of the increased <br />costs associated with any increase in salaries or benefits for these particular groups of employees. <br />SANTANGELO: And our Deputy Prosecutor is one of those? <br />BEN: The Deputy Prosecutor is one of those who are compensated on the Executive Salary Schedule, so that position is <br />included in this proposal to have the Salary Commission be responsible for that. <br />SANTANGELO: So, with what you included then we pretty much covered it? <br />BEN: Yes. <br />RAY: Gary. <br />YOSHIYAMA: I might be asking the same question here. I don’t know. The present Charter language speaks to Department <br />Heads and their Deputies. <br />BEN: Present Charter language? <br />YOSHIYAMA: Let me ask it a little bit different way. I don’t understand, in the Salary Commission’s proposal, the inclusion <br />of Assistant County Physician. The Salary Commission’s proposal speaks to Department Heads, along with their Deputies, <br />right? Why the inclusion of Assistant County Physician? <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 02-09-00.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />