ALC-Personnel

Okay we'll all take our seats. we'll get this meeting started Thank you all for being here specially invited guests of. I'll be I'll be chairing a meeting today and senator Wallace to be sitting here right beside me and said well if you have anything to say well Sir okay all right thank you The. I've already got checked on. Yeah okay all right okay the first item on the agenda this request from Arkansas community college at Batesville to establish for non classified positions of. Don't you explain it yes yes Sir thank you Mister chairman I to be is a request from the university of universe of Arkansas to be college baseball this for for twelve month faculty positions from higher it's central pole the projected actual salary for these positions is fifty thousand dollars uh including Max total compensation to be about sixty six thousand five hundred dollars the ride classroom instruction and we're request requested to properly place personnel in the workday conversion system in addition the positions are need for future trucking program at the institution DHT has recommended the establishment of the positions. Okay anyone have any questions on this. Of. Motion to of review approve their second. All in favor say aye. Motion carried I remember C. Tony Mr chairman items C. is request from the part of higher ed for a salary adjustment of more than two percent for both classified and non classified employees at northwest Arkansas community college the school wishes to provide a one time lump sum payment of three percent to all full time permanent non faculty employees they certify it they currently have the funds for the payments on hand to the decrease in operating expenditures for FY twenty two the board support center has approved these payments the last coal at in whack was in FY nineteen. Okay questions from the committee. Of Tony I guess I've got a question for you on this this is a one time payment. Yes Sir so of what it would not be applied to their base salaries so that future payments would not this would not be included in the future payments. That is my understanding I would have to confer with the institution if somebody's here. Miss Markham. I see you've got some help coming. If you could identify yourself for the record you're recognized. Grant Hodges executive director for community and government relations and marketing in whack. A simple answer to your question is yes this is a one time lump sum a lump sum payment it is not going into the salaries in the future so it's not a feature is not raise not a future obligation just a one time payment. So it is better than nothing but it's not arise is that what you're saying correct okay thank you any other questions. Senator Hickey. Just just wanna make sure that I fully understand this is this three percent going to the employee or just three percent total I mean do you all have any cost is going to come out of it also for your withholdings or whatever. Just as I just wanna make sure that your I thought thought that through. Yes yes Sir we we have the funds that we've budgeted for As it was sent a letter here we've got that almost one point one million that we've saved in the budget and with allocated about four hundred thousand dollars for these races so it'll be three percent bonuses for all of our non faculty staff. So strippers three percent going to the employee itself right okay. Are you going to have any other additional cost. No Sir. Okay you believe that's correct. Yeah. Okay thank you. Representative Wardlaw. Thank you Mr. A former representative Hodges as it's been two years since you left here. Just one long year one one year and then it in the cooling off period two years. No Sir not for a an employee of a state agency such as the fine institution of northwest Arkansas community college. I was wondering if you say that thank you Mr. Our Hey does look much older and more tanned and relaxed. Observation from a chair. I do miss you all dearly miss you all dearly. Any other questions for grant. My phone number hasn't changed either. These ex legislators I tell you they have no respect to. Of any other questions. Okay saying none what a pleasure to committee. Motion and second. To approve. Any discussion those in favor say aye opposed no motion carried. Are these next to Adam D. one through five it is the recommendation of the chair that we backs these together you give me a minute to look over those if you want any pulled out a batch let us know otherwise of. I don't see anybody's name on the list of peer. Okay of their continuations of previously approved Adams and represent the would Dotson represented Dotson took his name off okay. All right. Seeing no questions is there a motion. Motion to approve and second. Motion proven second any discussion those in favor say aye. Proj opposed no. Motion carried. Now then we move on down to item number eighty request for Arkansas Department education to transfer twelve positions Tony wanna explain this yes Sir the department is requesting to move six positions from Elementary and secondary education six positions from them three positions from one school and three positions from the school for the deaf all to the shared services division at the department of education's chairman this is not growth for the department's just movement of positions from one location to another. Anybody have any questions of staff. Or the Department. Seeing none is your motion to approve review. Motion second. Those in favor say aye. Posebno motion carried. Im number F.. Donation Mr chairman I am F. as requests from the Department energy environment this is the same type of requested item T. I. energy environments requesting to move one position a fiscal support specialist from LP gas board to energy environments shared services division. Any questions from the committee. C. nine is your motion. And second. Any discussion. Those in favor say aye. Posed no. Motion carried. Have your turn a page. Adamjee. question department health only Mr chairman item G. is a request from the department of health's nursing board for position from the opium swap pool the requesting to surrender a permanent health program coordinator at GSO nine in return for a nurse practitioner and an MPO for the nurse practitioner would be used to oversee licensure practices of the A. P. R. ends the board has had a hard time filling the position since the incumbent retired twenty nineteen What indicates that they have sufficient funding of the forty thousand to support the requested OPM recommends to swap. Any questions from the committee. Does your motion. Motion the second. Any discussion those in favor say aye. Posebno motion carried. Mister chairman I have age is requesting the security department for position from the opium so awful the Department requesting that to admins best list to the GSO for a public information coordinator to GSO seven the position to be used for investor education outreach specifically regarding signs of fraud the Department indicates it has sufficient funding of thirty four thousand three hundred forty dollars for the swapping OPM recommends to request. Okay questions from the committee. Most is second to approve those in favor say aye. Posebno motion carried. Now then Mr Tony. Chairman item hi this is the two year vacancy report from OPM as required by ACT seven ninety six of twenty twenty one. the on the first page which is actually page forty nine of the of the first packet and is the letter from OPM in when you switch flip the page over there's a there's a spreadsheet of the agencies and departments there included here the last two columns I think or what is what everybody wants to see a the last column is is identified as positions identified to retract retain these the positions have been vacant two years or more the agency's wish to keep the item or the calling just to the left to seven ninety six hold positions these are the positions that the agencies have currently that they say they can probably give up in the next session okay so right now there's nine hundred and twelve positions have been vacant for two years of war across state government four hundred thirty three of those the agencies are saying they can be given up four hundred seventy nine of them are positions that they say they need to keep now As used if you go past this you'll see individual spreadsheets from each agency that shows the positions the titles with their budget or not budgeted all that information also I need to know that we have a packet that came in late yesterday afternoon where DHS and IDF in a have made a couple of adjustments so we can take that up now Mister chairman if you're okay with the okay okay so we're handing that out now so this would be an adjustment just to DHS's request and DFA's request the. The request for DHS includes twelve positions that they had originally were going to give up but actually what we figured out is that with opium figured out as the positions that are already filled it was kind of a timing issues of these positions have been filled recently the issue with D. F. and a is that they want to give up an additional sixteen positions so that's where we have with that with that secondary request Mr. I'll take any questions okay I think we have to take any questions anybody may have as well. A representative Dotson. Thank you Mr chair Mike my question I think is for maybe for okay but may maybe for DFA on the DFA position The original and it looks like they were. I want to give up more but the now they're down to seventy seven I think from looking. At that correctly. There's are we just looking at the positions out of that ninety nine that have been vacant for two years plus there's another six hundred that are authorized that are unfilled. Roughly. Is that. Representative Dotson what was your right that does look to me a little DEFA called yesterday to give up twelve additional positions and you'll see that would pull Michael of the closure thank you Is yesterday of DFA submitted twelve additional positions to be put on the seven ninety six old pull there and that revise spreadsheet this in the other hand of I think was just passed out to. Right I guess maybe I didn't. I didn't state my question clearly enough if I look at authorized positions it shows three thousand and two. And fill positions twenty three oh six so that's about seven hundred difference. There's ninety nine that had been vacant for two years or more that mean there six hundred that are authorized unfilled positions that they can be filled at any time that have been filled or unfilled for less than two years. Representative Dotson that total number includes their extra help positions as well as some board positions as all the positions that the bank pays our doesn't pay for but that people have a place so they don't have seven hundred vacant positions at this particular point in time represent does not I think we're comparing apples and oranges here if you look on that chart over on the right hand side those final two columns over there are are the ones that are accurate they don't include the part time employees. If you're if you're looking at she I think you're looking at. I'm I'm not sure where you're looking at actually okay tell me can you help us. Yes I contract so the spreadsheet it's on the back of the original letter or on the back of the letter that was the handout it's the same basic spreadsheet okay. The calling you're looking at the authorized home which case which case saying is that those positions are include the regular positions from their act all of their extra help positions from Act plus any board member positions that they may have if they utilize those go into asus they pulled the total of all their positions less than seven thousand two that's the third yes the three thousand two then the twenty three oh six is I would most likely K. is all of their employees including extra help yes the target field units you got these except the reality the regular position seven ninety six with seventy six looks Act are the regular authorized positions according to this there's ninety nine vacancies across the department. And then they're giving up whatever was that giving up an additional twelve right in in so seventy seven total and the new revised so that is the authorized total in the field positions isn't exactly apples to apples with the last two columns just so you're your question is warranted there but the seven seven hundred is probably all based in extra help in this so the other. Six hundred authorize that are not included in this can they be filled at any time. Yes Sir they were not positions that have been vacant for two years the last two columns represent only the vacant positions of two years or more okay so. With or without these additional two year plus ones they have over six hundred bacon positions in that department I guess is the. Final. Including tempers yes Sir including the extra help okay Sir the. Okay who's in number sixteen. You are recognized. Thank you Mr chairman NO a member of this committee. But I work this legislation with opium and DFA and date of zero legislative research. I just want to commend them and thank them for bringing forth this legislation that we were able to pass just with the port of information for the members of this committee with the four hundred and forty three positions that Our own hold. This could be a potential savings of twenty two point four million dollars that's twenty million in salaries and two point four million in insurance benefits that are held. If just half of those are budget and from just looking at this report it didn't and then the case budgeted budget I think there's many more than that but anyway that's ten million dollars in salaries if half of more budgeted and one point two million in insurance premiums. I have been paid by the state so let's eleven point two. And then we have already received seventy positions. That amounts to that have been given up through the budget process and then to transformation. If you include that that brings the total to twenty six point four million dollars this piece of legislation has accomplished I want to thank the personnel committee it was a pleasure to serve as chairman on the last term of the committee and I want to thank the committee for their diligent work and effort and then also the Budget Committee the particularly K. Barnhill she is the city's been of a very important factor in helping us to bring this legislation to fruition thank you Mr chairman for this point of privilege thank you very much committee. Thank you representative will. Of Senator Hammer. Thank you Mr cares want to have a conversation around the transformation shared services the numbers as they play out transmission shared services has been up and running a little over two years now of where in a where we're currently in our sector. Okay could you help me understand the the numbers like two years plus vacant positions are fifty one and I'm trying to get my mind around how if it's only a little over two years these numbers. Are relevant okay with the history yes for a senator Hammer remember these positions came from other departments the if they were vacant at the departments that were transferred into transformation shared services we count them so out of the positions that were transferred in and to our department there are there were fifty one. Vacant positions and there are total up and we want to keep twenty two get ready and I keep twenty nine. But they were vacant before they came to us to make that to your minimum. So they move when the department moved right okay so they inherited them from the department Department moved over right exactly okay the five hundred twenty three on the authorized positions those are the are those actual budgeted positions or they're just authorized positions well they are authorized positions but I put in this column was authorized positions but it does include the extra help positions that we outside. Okay. Do you know what can you give me. From the time they were moved from the department that they were transferred from to the time that they have in the transformation shared services column can you give me the salary difference. During that snapshot done had to be now but I'd like to get it that when they move from where they were under transformation what was the salary prior to and what is the current salary now represented in these numbers on that line yes I would have to do some research to calculate that okay thank you thank you Mr. All right to number seventy eight. Okay. Thank you. All right anybody else have any questions. What's the players the committee. Do pass on the supplemental. Both of you okay is there a second. Okay any discussion further discussion. Okay those are for the motion let me know by saying aye. Does no. Motion carried. Hi Mister chairman items J. which you'll find the very back on page seventy seven of that first packets this is a request actually a recommendation from the board of finance for the Arkansas Public School employee health insurance program is administered by EBT of these recommendations including zero percent contribution increase for active or retired public school employees a twenty five dollar decrease in the wellness credit per month a twenty five dollar increase Connor she's being treated or contribution for active who choose not to participate in the wellness visit employees will have to go through wellness visit through their position to get the wellness credits the thirty five million dollar restricted reserve funding that's already been approved by a LC and then twenty million dollars in funding from the department of education Mr chairman that's all I've got for that particular recommendation all right to any questions from the committee I know that no one has gotten any emails or anything on this matter. but the if you do have a question now is the time to ask. If you don't have the time for motion. Motion the second any discussion those in favor say aye. Opposed no motion carried sensibly like the emails worked. the Adam K. through. He. Is a. They don't require any actions from us there reports to this committee if you have any questions will bring about the individual. That's the big package yes. And I got questions on this. Say none. Of. If there's other business to come before this committee senator Wallace I have none all right then we are adjourn thank you all for being. Thank you.