ALC-Personnel

Personal subcommittee is now in session but that being set out the first of my culture send roo davis if you have any comments in she's gonna yield to the chair and with that being said ladies welcome if you would miss johnson miss elkins of your state your name for the record will get started i'm alex chance to and chief of staff at the department of transformation insured services and jennifer alkins a staff attorney at the office of personnel management of tss thank you so much for being here as long as we don't bring anything up about border corrections will get through this pretty smooth today so thank you all for being here with that the instead tony let's go to item be the sort of. Yes I don't be mischairman item be is request from the department of human services shared services division for a swap or request the history is requesting to serve two eighty positions at night or five in an item and return for a new it title of database administrator eight does this will be used to oversee the employees working on the medicaid snap in t computer programs in the applications open as recommended the two for one swap in estimates the total cost to be about forty thousand dollars with fifteen thousand of that coming from general any questions from the committee seeing none to have emotion. Have a motion a second thing I was second all in favor say I all posed motion passes items see which chairman item see as a request from d s s a swap four positions and return for two the two new positions will be authorized as dsa program directors at GS thirteen the agency is requesting that new positions to complete essence succession plan into reorganized the supervision of the different divisions of the agency in order to continue to serve not only arkansas applicants but also applicants and other states that look to our dds so say to help alleviate their backlog with the federal government's program opinion has recommended the swap and estimates it will actually be a savings of eleven thousand dollars in federal revenue based on the elimination of the four positions that were recently vacated dsa is one hundred percent federally funded questions from the committee. Seeing none of the motion have a motion second second on a favorite say I pose motion passes. Which chairman item d is a request for the northwest technical institute as part of the department of higher education ntis requesting a six for six apposition swap to create six new nursing instructor positions at a grade of mpo to the request is made based on their inability to recruit entertain nursing structures because of inadequate salary levels opium has recommended the position swap and due to the increased grades estimates the total cost of this request to be about two hundred forty six thousand dollars all from general remaining. Questions from the committee seeing none of the motion have motion and the second on favorite i'll pose motion passes. Item e is a request from the department of commerce's areas division for a one for one position swap the agency is requesting to surgery fiscal support specialist at AGS o and return for a business operations manager at a gissue eight the new position will be responsible for supporting the agency director and daily activities and also focusing on new initiatives including enhanced aviation education in high schools op is recommended to swap and estimates the total cost of the new position to be seventy seven thousand dollars coming from special revenue questions from the committee see none of the motion I have motion in a second on favor say I will pose seeing none motion passes. Mischairman item f is a request from department of commerce work for services division. The. The distinguished gentleman from sercie representative eaves did you have a question. I did it was about the new position for aeronautics of I wondered that there's someone here that could give some more information about what that positions going to do as it relates to the bottom you say something about expanding ironomical. Information in high schools as he mister chesm coming to the table if you would please state your name for the record and then you can address representative these questions thank you that's about skip out the door I heard my button on in plenty of time. Thank you mister chairman members the could be my name is jerry chis and on the director's division paranotics this position is something we're requesting because the space industry in arkansas huge employees about ten thousand or cans exports about one point five billion dollars in exports every year and we are falling woefully behind ours neighboring states in educating high school students for the opportunities in the area space and aviation industry there is a huge gap in the market need for employees and what is available and so one of the initiatives are commission and our agency is undertaking is to encourage high schools to develop aviation programs at the high school level of eventually maybe even as far down as the junior highlight we need someone who can dedicate full time and energy to that capacity currently we have five employees we don't have anyone that can do that oklahoma has about eighty six high schools with an aviation program we have about eight so we're just trying to make sure that arkansas days it before front and aerial space industry so there are high schools that are already teaching aviation there are yes there are two three northwest dark and saw one in north arkansas and a couple others around the rest of state but again we're falling far behind and we're trying to do things to help icekeeper and we view arkansas in your space leader and we want to stay in that position but isn't aerospace related parts and components are largest export it is. All right well thank you for that appreciate it that's our good information thank you. It's there probably wreck he's not here I have his seat mr chairman senator johnson thank you sir during thank you i'm over here to your thank you for what you're doing in this and wants to look at some ways maybe soon to expand their i'm really excited about the uca aviation academy that just picked off this month in my district and as you said we have a tremendous short it's not just a pilot that we have a shortage of of all the skills related to aviation I applied you in and your agent seemed for the work you're doing on it and please come back to this if you have more ideas where we can help in we're gonna start this thing of getting the kids interested while in a school and then then that'll be the ones that'll go do you care elsewhere interesting reason and become pilots and make us a real to live up to our potential thank you I appreciate those comments very much one of the things that we want to do as an agency as to. To let high school students know that we say aviation education pilots is usually the first thing that comes to mine with their hundreds of jobs in aviation that don't involve being in the airplane and so we want to encourage that kind of growth as well but thank you I appreciate very much account please please keep us informed thank you chairman for thank you senator johnson representing profit you're recognized. Thank you mr chair thank you for being here in my good strict we have peak innovation center reports man I have is that something that you have your eye on to be a part it is at first we're going to target high school programs getting a curriculum into the high school programs as this initiative grows we're going to expand that to existing programs that are out there and how we can interact with them to grow those. The aircraft owners and pilots association has a high school curriculum that is free to high schools with it with the only requirement being that they provide a teacher full time teacher for that so we're going to work with them we've already made some contacts with those individuals at alpa how we can move this forward but initially we're going to focus on getting high school programs in place and then as the program grows we're going to move towards working with the existing issue the peak innovation center is high school yes but it's an existing one where we're looking at an establishing new ones if we can and then growing the current ones that we have I would encourage you to reach out to them I will do that I will do that personally thank you any more questions from the committee. Thank you mister chisol to be in here thank you that being said will go on to item f. Thank you mister chairman item f is a request from the department of commerce work for services division the agency is requesting two new positions with new classifications from their own internal growth poor the first position is the director of architect work force connection and SEO four the other position will be an assisted director of reemployment at a gs fifteen the director of workforce connection will leave multiple workforce development programs in coordinate with local development boards the assisted director of reemployment will oversee tune our employees and will be responsible for overseeing the recently separated division opm has recommended the new positions in the new classifications and estimates the total cost to be about four hundred thousand dollars with fifty eight thousand of that coming from general revenue and the remaining coming from federal. Any questions from the committee. Seeing none to have a motion of emotion a second you have a second all they were say I follow pose seeing non motion passes are my streaming item g is requesting the office prosecutor coordinator for three additional certified facility dog handler positions from the opinion growth pool these positions will be part of the pause for justice program that provide specially trained dogs for court rooms tell victims feel comfortable during intense testimony opinion has recommended the requested positions in the estimated cost will be about two hundred and one thousand dollars from state central services. Any questions from the committee. Saying none of the motion and the second second all in favor all posting non motion passes. Which chairman item has a request from the department of public safety's crime lab division the request is for four additional forensic technicians at a gso five from the open growth pool the positions will serve in the medical director's division by assisting with examinations and investigations the division expects to be able to provide timelier responses and remove some of the work load off the medical examiners opium is recommended the positions and estimates the cost to be two hundred and twenty two thousand dollars from general revenue for the new positions thank you committee I don't see any questions in the queue but i'll tell you I talk with doctor brown last night and he was at peer committee and in this war these positions will allow us to make a big debt and a lot of the autopsies in getting those individuals back to their families in the march rare so it's a young is a good thing for the crime website and seeing no questions I have emotion. They have emotion and a second second all the papers they are posting in nine it passes. Mister chairman item I is a request for the military department for a new classification just the classification not a position. For a security supervisor the agency is utilizing the position you do not going to utilize existing positions with this title the constitution is need to help overseas security personnel that are not considered military police op is recommended the requesting classification. Questions seeing none to have emotion. I have emotioned I have a second hand the second old favorite say I all posted none motion passes. The chairman item j is request for the department of public safety for review of an educational differential for all the classifications listed on page fifty seven of the packet. The different tool will allow the agency to provide up to ten percent add on to the incumbent's base salary based on the educational level opms recommended the request a differential and estimates the implementation will cost the agency seventy six thousand dollars for the remainder of this year at a special evidence. Another win for the crime lab diving questions for the committee saying now to have a motion I have emotion in the second or the babies they are all posting non motion passes. It's chairman item k is a request from the department of veterans affairs for a geographic differential for maintenance positions in north rock the history states are having trouble recruiting and retaining employees to service the veteran cemetery after review of this item the agency will be able to provide up to a two percent add on to the base salary of employees in these classifications opium is recommended the differential and estimates the cost to be about fifty thousand dollars. Any questions seeing none to have emotion emotion in the second all in favor say I will post seeing no motion passes a tear arm. A msperiod johnson is welcome jealou doing an incredible job and I want to thank you so I don't l will move the ill no actions required on reports tony yes there are no actual required item ill this is just a report from the part of a payer education showing their provisional positions have been created for the institutions hired education. Okay item m we need to suspend the rules committee so we can address item in. Have motion second. All in favor say I always motion passes. Rules are suspended mischairman item m one is a request for the department of transformation gis division this arrived late due to an oversight just and get sit in with the original batch of requests the request is a swap who just read or a gis analyst at an iteo six in return for a new classification in position of state geographic information systems officer at an it twelve this new position will allow the department to. Be able to promote or retain individuals at the just how lives of the gis division op has recommended the swap and estimates the cost of the position to be about a hundred and five thousand dollars in this is from general revenue any questions from the committee seeing none of other motion. Have a motion a second have a second or favorite car i'll pose seeing none motion passes. Last item is chairman is adam in two this is a request from the public service commission to surrender one attorney specialist at a gs eleven in a return for an attorney supervisor at a gs twelve to better serve the legal needs of the commission the the position will be assigned to the commissioner staff and all responsible for advising the commission in legal matters open as recommended the position in estimates there to be a savings of seven thousand dollars due to the previous employee in the surrendered position being paid at the maximum salary any questions from the committee seeing none of the need emotion have a motion of second hand the second on favor say I will post so now it seemed none motion passes ladies and gentlemen seeing no further business on the agenda we are just.