ALC-Personnel

Are eight members when they go ahead and call this meeting to order we have a link the agenda today but I think it will be quick so i'm going to start off with it and be we're going to go through b one through b sixteen all at one time they're continuation so if you have questions please save until the end and we'll be happy to get your questions answered alternative to me and members uh items be one through b sixteen eighties are continuations of previously reviewed items that have been they've come before the committee over the course of the last year so these are all things that have been done previously so be wine is request for continuation of second language differentials he's used to the various departments list on page two yesterday the cost for the signal in which differentials is four hundred nineteen thousand dollars be two as a request for continuation of certification differentials used it various departments in agencies listen on pages for through six yesterday the cost for the certification differentials was one point three seven million uh be three is for geographic differentials uhm this is on page eighty nine estimate a cost for these was one point seven seven million. Before is a request for continuation of hazardous duty differentials these are some page thirteen to cost is eight point one million be five is a continuation of education differentials these are used at the agencies list on paid sixteen as we caused is thirty six thousand be six is a uh request for continuation of previous previously reviewed labor market rates these are all listen on page eighteen estimate the cost for this past year was fifty thousand dollars item b seven there is a extra page on your uh on your desk for b seven it's a handout there was an error in the one in the packet so please uh look at this one uhm this is for on call differentials these refer based departments listen on page torn even on the back of this on the back of the the hand out page the estimated cost for these were two point one million and bait is a request for continuation of opinion differentials uh these are the same page twenty three back in your packet estimate the cost for these is one point two five million nine is a request for continuation of previously adopted poor positions these are authorized at the base departments and liste- uh agencies listen on pages twenty sixty thirty two of the packet asked me the cost for these positions because the opn is thirteen point five million three point four million of that is from GR one point eight million is from state central three and a half million from federal three point four million from special revenue and one point two million and other funding between is request for continuation of twenty positions approved by the department of higher education listed on pages thirty three three thirty five these positions were created as central growth propositions for the listed institutions be eleven is a request for continuation of five positions at the at the two year institutions listen on page thirty seven these five positions were created through the department of higher education swap all I know b twelve has been pulled so we won't be review. And be twelve at all item b thirteen and fourteen pages forty three and forty five percent request for continuation of four positions created DHS division of aging adult behavioral services now can our arkansas economic development commission to the american resource rescue points give me american rescue plan act item b fifteen on pages forty seven forty eight a request for continuation of three positions and emergency management state police to the uh infrastructure investment in jobs act and in item b sixteen on pages forty ninth in fifty five or question for continuation of sixteen positions created at the department of correction DHS public safety commerce in the military department the mislaying is federal grants madam chairman we can go back and take questions on any of those thank you senator him are you are recognized for a question they can may have chaired this is in regards to the hazardous duty differential spreadsheet and page thirteen. L phone decay yes okay so it's not impersonal against people to hold this position but i'm just wondering what constitutes a recreational activity leader wanted to been on a hazardous duty status what what is it about their job that puts them to that level. Yes about is with the department of human services I believe i'm trying to find out on my sheet right here well I think they were doing it because of the physical demands that they had to be careful for the other residence who might be it's both does some physical demands and the fiscal demands that they are under themselves ma'am sure would you love the agency to come forward and answer that. Yeah. I'm sorry will you repeat that you care would you like d h come the table and after absolutely is there someone here from dhs like an answer that question. Are they. Yeah. If you'll please state your name and who you're with for the record then that's a mitrail it's cheaper staff dhs my understanding of this position is it's at our arkansas state hospital so it's at okay i'm not sure of the duties of but. There is a reason we have money has repay i'm just not sure if it's a great answer where hey if they're if they're working at the state hospital that that probably well they're working at the state hospital sometimes we use those positions to count of I mean you know sometimes the duties are an exact match their real duties are in exact match for what an op so I think the the way we use those duties for for people at ash I think what we've done as we've lumped a lot of our ash positions into this hazardous pay because of the nature of the work they have to do yeah okay thank you like membership thank you sender chesterfield you recognize for a question years thank you many insurers not sure but I need to know what mister perishes group is in this is here you know the legal aid group is he in this vet or should I wait he's here and i'm trying to figure out the differential since it's had so much publicity may I ask you come up and kind of explain that to me so i'll have a better understanding we have the public defender yes there yes come up please if you'll set your name and who you're with further record please repair a sharp start public defender commission senator apologize and the stay out in the whole talking about another matter so no response in one point in this and I appreciate you taking my question but you have your division is commander some. Publicity recently just could you explain to pay differentials so that we can better understand it so that when people ask us what betty is we will have some knowledge of people to pay the way they are now because I know this party will be straight about this at least initially several years ago the commission had so many gstm positions so many gs eleven positions so egs twelve so many gs thirteens and we had eight gs fourteenth. And so for someone to move to the next graded position there are to be an opening you just could not go from atm and we promoted to an eleven without there being a vacancy in so we're dealing with the entire state as well when a vacancy comes open through the help of open and former governor hutch and send back in two thousand twenty one I think he was twenty one we moved all of our low graded all of our positions to gs thirteen now that did not mean everybody got a promotion they stayed in the same grade so you moved from eleven to thirteen but she didn't have a concomment and increasing this that the money was taken care of but what happened was is when for instance we would typically hard someone a new one in a gesture when when our positions then we're to all gs thirteens. They stayed in their current position but what the end gave me the the ability to do and it was all about retention is promoted someone from a time to and eleven. Without losing their did not come about until I think two thousand twenty and known the term is for spain we're going to be going to session her pretty soon could you tell me what the move from change it obtained at that included committed increase in salary and it would but in theoretically it's a danger to the employer to go straight from the t and t to a thirteen way because you want to stairst it to eleven eleven a twelve cost each time there's that great increase there's a time increase ten percent increase in salary provided it takes you up to the minimum entry for that next grade and that's a bad thing because i'm sorry and that's a bad thing because. That's a good thing because it gears a career path because if you promote from a team to a thirteen your landlocked you've gotten a where to go but she said she had fourteen we now have four things now have fourteen because of what happened at the last bianial and what we chose to do then if you will be kind enough to share with me what the qualifications are to move on to the other I would appreciate that if the other committee members would wish to see that that's fine I would believe the point but I do think it's imperative that we understand when people are asking us how do you get from here to hear this in what do you need to do to move from here to hear we ought to be able to answer that intelligent like this I would appreciate that and thank you madame chair what would ask the question thank you mr parish if you would send that to town he then he can distribute to the committee thank you all right representing lane your recognized gene sorry to recognize well chair this and I may have missed this cost only top so far from our top do you but all I have either k or or are tony of these I guess the first aid my math somewhere around fifteen million dollars per increase how much is there a general revenue how much is that is special revenue do we have a broken down there because we do a perfect excuse here will be it so I concerned about what what our cost is for doing business okay I just need to recall tony fuel let me know what the first did you say first bathroom signed first be second language differentials certification differentials geographic differentials. Has a disturbing education labor market on call and opn differentials okay car just go category back how blue okay for the second language of financial the general revenue costs is fourteen thousand two hundred and fifty one dollars via the certification differential the general revenue cost is five forty eight two eighty eight by the education differentials we have seventeen thousand and eighty dollars for the geographic differential we have seven hundred ten thousand six hundred and seventy dollars where they have a disturbing it is a three. Free million two hundred fifty one and fifty four dollars and then let me see and then the opinion differential is five thousand seventy two and then their own car differential is eight hundred sixty six thousand dollars nine hundred and eight representative james the total of the whole package which we did this time just saying you that was a total of twenty eight three hundred seventy eight two hundred thirty five million from all sources the general revenue estimate there is man may and ninety six hundred ninety two with another eighteen seven eighty seven million going to other sources mainly federal government federal federal revenue okay so million is the general revenue okay thank you all right representative leaves your and ever my gosh i'm sorry it is monday I apologize you're recognized by a quick word this probably should know the answer to this but II guess I don't it's on sibling asking the dumb question but why do we even have mac's salaries if we are constantly going over those salaries I mean is it a situation where we should change the pay plan to make those maximums a lot higher or just get rid of max entirely well there is only two ways and employees are connected max and that will be with this year with the three percent market adjustment if that takes him above max that's one way are there merit actually takes above max that would be the second way other than that we pretty much adhere to the max as the max at that time now with these differentials that is considered a add on and that part of their base salary so that's a little bit different but really those two methods and the only other method I could think of that people are allowed to see max is when we come to you and there's been a reduction of or their change and problems and people get and move to around and their source already followed back. All right send their hammer you recognize for a question. Thank you and represent lane jeans question while go the nine point three million and other state funding now that is how much is coming out of the date that's of the twenty eight three hundred and seventy eight million of our total costs right in the rush reservation with federal function or other matching sources right either we had several this included all the pool positions that was at work stability last year some of those special sources we have several like from the bank department funded sources as well as federally okay and not to dissilent happen but just so that if it did we'd be a record that it did happen if these federal funds reduce the loss positions would go away even though we have state matching fund tied in with each one of them right yes have you seen anything in a areas that were dealing with this morning on these that have been mentioned that would in where the federal funding to ever been reduced never I have now okay thank you senator chesterfield you recognize for a question is thank you sandra I appreciate it one of the things that it's trouble me over the years and i've expressed it to uk is the objective there i'm determining who was meritorious and who is not as well in each division seems to have its own little way of saying your military is another mate think that that is different can we improve that at all limitally what process if you will send a chest further we went through this year back in january we went out to all the departments and the agencies to train among a proper way of evaluating their employees so nobody could say they didn't know how things work we I think we're trying for five thousand managers throughout the government with that process in and then the ratings came in and we review the writings and then there were fours and there were three with a few two someone. So with those fours we contacted the department back and said we want to make sure you get sufficient different documentation to support your force cause we did some spat checking and i'll pm without some that we thought we're lacking so we contacted those departments back again to give their secretary of a director to make any changes that they felt that was necessary so we did everything we could try and establish the objective criteria and trying to review for consistency across stake downwards there's state departments this time even we made the department set up a mean when made we ask the departments to set up a performance review committee for they can make sure within their various divisions and charlie they were being persistent on who received what that is always we'll take a lot of steps trying to address that issue as a much more comfortable with this year so without results and I did some of the previous look and i'm glad to hear that we're doing something better because it it had begun to be a bad do I like you I don't rather then did I do the work on it in whatever we can do to preclude that from being the only criteria for getting raised it it would be appreciated I know our staffers would appreciate it as well I thank you so very much and thank you madame thank you all right do I have emotion to prove items b one through b sixteen with the exception of b twelve. Sure we'll send that up absolutely not a copy many do I have a motion second any discussion are those in favorably say I oppose no motion carries item see chairman I am see as a request for labor market interate at the department of correction for depending what in classifications is that the GS ten uh in this would be about seventy eight thousand are the the labor market rate will be seventy eight thousand dollars currently there's two officers uh below that rate and they would come up to the new rate will cost the agency about five thousand dollars OPM is recommended the requested rate. All right see no questions of emotion and a second in a discussion are those in favor of place they oppose no motion carries item d that i'm chairman item d as a request in the department of higher education for fourteen growth corpositions at the university of central arkansas university is requesting three assistant coaches one strength coach three athletic trainers when few price manager four food prep supervisors in two additional food prep's specialists the department of higher education has recommended the fourteen positions seen no questions do I have a motion a second any discussion all those in favor of the say I oppose no motion carries item e chairman i'm easier to question the department of commerce's architect economic development commission for four positions from the american rescue plan act the committee is responsible for reviewing the classification of these positions per review the number of positions on wednesday this week opium has recommended the request a classifications see no questions to have a motion i'm sorry we have a question alright senator dots and you're recognized thank you madame chair okay just looking through here it says there are four salaries how long is this. Supposed to last for I need to check on that and says nine hundred and eighty two thousand for four salaries the map doesn't quite add yes a running plan the right page here and when page eighty three has been clear yeah it is alright so no lots and I think that is a director of how he's at the state barbara and office with it okay well let him come up to the table if you're still state your name and here with for the record please good morning and how we say broadband director so just looking at this it says regular salary's nine hundred and eighty two thousand but then it's at the four salaries and I had all those together. Don't come up anywhere close to that is this just for an additional positions that are part of that nine hundred and eighty two thousand yeah so they use these four positions are already part of our staff and these force we have to come back each year and I guess ask for reauthorization could his four positions yes these are already filled and on our team okay so that's just your total appropriation of nine or total grant I guess of nine hundred and eighty two for salary it's sort of a I think it's a breakdown of the current authorized appropriation. Okay yeah alright thank you all right thank you seen no other questions or have a motion to approve in a second any discussion are those in favor please say I pose no motion carries item chairman item if as a request for one new position at department of public safety from a misleased federal grant as before a personnel is responsible for reviewing the classification of the position period will review the number of positions on wednesday this week opium has recommended this classification the some page eighty five. The. How many questions seen and the motion debt prove motion second any discussion are those in favorably say I oppose no motion carries on to reports item g and chairman items g through l require no action by the communities your reports we can take any questions got any then that there's no actually taken are there any questions on any of the reports. All right see none and no other business this there is other business excuse me throughout the gamble out all right several minutes madam chairman because it's a supplemental agenda the committee will need to make a motion to spend the rules to take the items up in the supplemental agenda all those in favor i've got a motion in a second although some favorite please say I opposed no motion carries alright madam chairman item a one is a request from for the committee to a previous is an approval item to list of employees on pages four three twelve of this packet the supplemental package is on your desk these employees will exceed the new maximum salaries established in act one seventy two for class and comp the salary's will expand the sellers will actually the maximum due to the married adjustment amounts awarded by the governor uh last Second any discussion are those in favor please say I oppose now motion carries thank you very chairman the last item is a two this is a request for continuation of two arpo positions they got left off the list is there at the department of health as with the previous arpa I j a and I move cheap positions the committee is responsible for reviewing the classification to sound of these positions per will review the appropriation on wednesday OPM is recommended the request to classifications right any questions seen ninety out of emotion that emotion of a second any discussion are those in favor please say I oppose no motion and this meeting is adjourned.