ALC-Personnel

First one of the first things that I want to go over we've got a new template inside each of the packets pack it this came from last committee meeting there are lots of questions about cost funding sources of positions things like that so the chairs in uh some members of leadership as if we put this template together we've worked with open and the agencies so if you'll turn to page three quickly you'll see this the first template. And what this template tells you is essentially what they what the agenda used to tell you it tells you how many positions are being eliminated it tells you what the titles are but it also gives you the estimated cost of the positions that are being added. The estimated savings of positions that are being eliminated. What they're funding sources are in the far right and in at the very bottom you'll get the total estimated cost to the agency you'll get a total estimate of cost of general revenue if there is one and then you will get a total position adjustment so if we give up two for one it would be a negative one in that column if we do a one for one it's a zero so now that we've put these templates into every packet for every request position change request. The agenda has lost a lot of the spreadsheet looked to it and we're just adding what these items are on the agenda and what the total cost so if there's a question you got stopped me at any time please but I just kind of wanted to relay that information as to why the agenda looks different and then where these were these templates have come from thank you tony in the previous agenda was little labor intensive and duplication of effort so I think this makes it a little easier for the committee are all around but seeing that there's no questions or comments from senator dots and then not we'll just proceed on but it's it's great to have the gavel so with that being said tony is going to go to a item b one miss chairman item b one is a request from the department of public safety's division of emergency management their requesting a two for two swap they would be sure two fire marshal inspector positions gso three and return for two new positions both with the same new classification of ebem fire marshall inspector at a great gist of seven request is made based on the roles and responsibilities of the positions opm recommends the swap and estimates the total cost of the new positions to be about thirty five thousand dollars which you can see on page three of it and be one the funding source for the positions be given up and the new positions both is one hundred percent special revenue there's no change in the number of authorized positions based on the request. And my understanding is talking with dps those stuff they're currently AGS threes are very difficult to fill in this will give them the better ability to hire far marshall inspectors in the gs seventy department of public safety will retain the investigative process for criminal for the criminal aspect of arson and so forth and these will be a far marshall inspectors and with that being said do I have any questions and motion got motion about the second. The mug have second. Dobile not be bashed thank you representation all in favor of those motion passes. Mister chairman item b two is a request from the arts of public employee retirement system to surrender an admin specialist three at a great gso for and return for a new classification of apers associate director of information technology at an it eleven. The position is requested to direct the operations of the it section op and recommends the position swap and estimates the total cost of the new position to be one hundred and sixteen thousand dollars as you can see on page nine of the packet the funding source of both the surrendered and new position is from their trust find will be no change in the number of authorized positions based on the request any questions from the committee seemed non to have a motion. Have a motion i'm sorry we got a question from the distinguished gentleman from hermetage mister wardla. Yeah. Okay. Mister war law did you have a quick ok no questions that we got a motion and needed a second. Anybody got a second. The. Got a second. All of they were say I all posed motion passes number three. Mischairman item b three is actually two different requests oh twenty one b three is on page twenty one. Two different requests from dfa revenue services the first request is a swap pool request to surrender an attorney specialist at a gs eleven it has never been filled for managing attorney position at AGS thirteen the new managing attorney position will service the senior legal position and supervise attorneys and supports the support staff within the dfa office of field on it determining compliance with tax laws and collecting collecting delinquent tax debts opm has recommended the swap request in on page twenty three you'll see the estimated cost of the swap to be a hundred and twenty seven thousand dollars funded from state central services which as part of this as part of the template there is shows up as a general revenue as well and in the second part of the request is for growth poor position the f a is requesting a dfa revenue tax division manager to graduate thirteen we located the office of income tax and will be responsible for ensuring compliance case management and taxpayer support op is recommended this growth pool as well as. The. And i'll pay twenty four shows the estimated cost of the position to be a hundred and thirty three thousand dollars funded from state central services as well which is part of general revenue and I believe the two of them together come out to about two hundred and sixty thousand dollars from gr. That's all I have mistr. Center dotson. Thank you mister chair. On this one. It says they'll be overseeing employees a group of employees and who's overseeing those now. Sir dots I have let the agency answer that for you maybe month airport. And charlie good state your name for the record agency you're with. Yes sir my name is charlie collins and the commissioner revenue with the fine senator dotson would you please repeat your question yes it just says in this this write up that it'll be overseeing other. Other employees I guess is a managing attorney I guess one of the responsibilities and who's overseeing those employees now what's the need for this at this point so that the specific answer to your question is we have an attorney supervisor roll which is over those employees today in this new configuration are collection garnishment section would have an upgraded person is thirteen managing attorney which would be over that all section if we just take a step back for context senator historically we'd have two people in the garnishment and lean and collection sharp in order to make those collections there's a lot of legal work involved with the county courts etc and with the change to the tax appeals commission last year the legislature graciously agreed to give us two additional positions to both work in that arena to help us on the collection front but also to play a much greater role assisting are hundred plus field auditors in interpreting your power seas and administering the taxes during audit historically the revenue legal group played a much bigger role there but with the beginning of the tax appeals commission are traditional source of of legal input his really been pulled over into doing that work the other arena that this managing attorney will help with is actually participating in those hearings which are much more numerous now than they were a year ago so we're basically upgrading from a management capability stealing point that aspect of the collection sharp and our support for auditors so that we can do a better more accurate job with taxpayers and are are those things more accurate because of legislation we passed or because there's more. Folks they're out there trying to get around tax laws there's always a lot of questions about taxes that they come from many many reasons why it one of the biggest things i've learned since i've been a legislature legislator senator is I used to think if there was silver where knives booms forks charlie collins that soup is good food i'll pass the tax exemption for spoons you know even an uncle headlight charlie collins can tell a fork from the spoon but what happens the next year nobody makes forks anymore now we have knives spoons and sporks so there's the complexity level that is is higher than I would have anticipated thank you thank you center dots and chairman ward law thank mr looking at this in miss barney may be the right person answered this and we been talking along these lines now for months or so it says we were surrendering this position first the glove gs eleven and it's never been field so the revenue from that position has had been been turned back in on june thirtieth under rsa or we all been using those funds for something else in mister collins may need to answer that. So with regard to the revenue for position if we're not spending the money on the position obviously representative that there's not going to be money spent there but in terms of your your good question of what why have it we filled it that's not my question oh I apologize I don't know I mean we're not gonna sit here and let you go around a book I want to answer my question it says you never feel this position therefore you're calling that salary savings did you turn that revenue back in at the end of that physical year. Sir I believe the only thing that's credited as savings is the six thousand that was not spent on the ebd portion for that but k please do a better job answer than I have. Basically when the position has never been filled the only cost we associated with that is the but I think is mr colon said. I would assume that was turned back if you didn't use it you don't have carry forward language right okay so that would have had to be turned back to was it turned back. Representative i'll have to find out what you want to get that information to staff or friday that'd be awesome yesterday will do thank you and miss chair I would ask that we put this in a report based on whether we get that information or not so I don't want to sit in this is reviewed today until we see that information all friday because you can make a motion to I don't I don't want to hold it I just want to put it as a preview that if we don't get that information we don't review this position and mister collins can you make sure that staff gets that the. Intermotion please yes mr chair I will do that thank you thank you mister wardlaw mister collinson are you excuse thank you seen over the questions we have emotion motion about a second. Yeah so so. Sender chest building the motion would be that it's going to be approved at council if we have the data from a definitely that were requesting. Mister wardlaw. Yes sir so my understanding tony had informed me that we need to uh because the motion make a damage okay. So got a first got a second on a favor I made a motion how does the just into friday pending information together from the department. Or get you still good on your second. God I got a second all the favorite say I all pose motion passes. And and excuse my rudeness but I did not recognize miscape barnhill thank you for being here today can you thank you for all your work that you've been doing on the with staff on the pay plan and the personnel evaluations thank you welcome. Tony all right mischairman items see as a request from disbilling determination for the social security administration are this for an open differential to provide up to ten percent add on to employees in the three classifications listed in the packet on page twenty nine. This is in order ddssa is wanting to provide these differentials to employees who can and will take on additional cases to up eliminate their backlog of disability cases this does not require any additional position changes only salary increases are differentials for the employees taking this on the estimated cost according to opm is about seven hundred thousand dollars which is completely one hundred percent federal. So this is a no brainers all federally funded so seeing no questions to have emotional. They have motion of the second I got a second on favor say I all oppose they know that motion passes and we're going to item d chairman item d is a grant position request through the infrastructure investment and jobs at with a dps division of emergency management the peer committee is already reviewed this request based on the three point one million dollars grant that was continued back in june of this year for local cyber security peers responsible for reviewing an authorizing the position which was done yesterday or personal is required to review the classification on the request which is a grants coordinator opium is recommended this classification the cost of this particular position including forty percent match will be about seventy thousand dollars for this particular position in its idea. So i'm when the money drives up on this it it goes away yet so any questions seeing none of emotion have emotional second sense second hour and favorite say all the posts motion passes and e watermen items e one and two do not require any actions these are reports of actions taken due to previously approved grades labor market rates etc for the executive branch agencies and then item to a provisional positions for institutions of higher education. Okay I was no action required on that so go on the f o any further business come before the committee saying none was thank you.