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Speaker 11
1:30
Thank you.
well that that screen wasn't up are you ready we'll call this
Speaker 18
2:23
to see everybody this afternoon appreciate
your attendance my co-chair would you like to make any remarks okay at this time I'll turn it over to you Tony
and begin with our regular business items thank you Mr.
Speaker 22
2:41
Chairman item B is a request from the Arkansas Governor's Managing Commission for one swap pool position the agency has requested to surrender two positions an events aid and an events coordinator in return for one new position with a new title of Governor's Deputy Mansion Administrator at an SPC05. Based on the costing spreadsheet provided by OPM, the estimated cost for the new position will be $104,000, which includes matching and is paid out of state central services.
The request states the position will enhance the operations of the mansion by creating efficiency, providing continuity, and supporting the operations of the facility. OPM has recommended the swap and the new title. This will lower the authorized total of positions at the Governor's Mansion by one position. we have any questions okay all right i need a motion
for review got a motion second all right motion and second
any discussion all in favor say aye any opposed same sign motion
Speaker 22
3:50
to review is approved Mr. Chairman, item C is a swap pull request from the military department to surrender three positions in return for a data engineer at an IST-12. The surrendered positions include a mechanic, maintenance specialist, and administrative analyst. The estimated cost of the new position is $141,000. That includes the matching, and it is paid out of general revenue. The new position is requested to assist with enhanced digital infrastructure and data-driven decision-making.
opm has recommended the swap the total authorized positions at military will decrease by two with review of this request okay do
we have any questions on this one all right no questions i
will entertain a motion to review all right motion and second all those in favor say aye any opposed same sign motion to review is approved
Speaker 22
4:41
mr chairman item d is a swap pull request from the Public Service Commission. They're requesting to surrender one HR manager position at an SPC 04
in return for one chief fiscal officer classification at an SPC 09. The estimated cost of the position is $13,600 including match and this is paid out of special revenues. This amount is based on the previous HR positions incumbent salary being eliminated through retirement. The new chief fiscal officer will take on those duties as well as require a special specialized accounting knowledge and experience. OPM has recommended the requested swap. This is a net-zero effect on the number of positions at PSC due to it being a one-for-one swap.
Okay, you've heard the report. Any discussion? All right. Oh, I'm
Senator Fredrick J. Love
Unverified
5:51
again okay you recognize senator love thank you mr. chair it's okay tell
this I looked at this is there is there anyone over there doing HR I know that they said that CFO was the CFO was doing HR and and being the CFO so is there anyone just specifically dedicated to HR not at this time the chief of staff
Speaker 43
6:12
is currently doing all the HR business and that it will go to this position when this position takes over how many
Senator Fredrick J. Love
Unverified
6:23
other do we have any other agencies doing it like this
Speaker 43
6:27
we have a couple a lot of times hr is either located reporting directly to the secretary sometimes it's in the fiscal office so there are some other agencies that put all the hr functions i think parks is an example of an agency that has hr and fiscal together so parks
Senator Fredrick J. Love
Unverified
6:45
doesn't have anyone else like a separate person? Well, no, they have a lower level HR manager. Okay, so there's not going to be a lower level HR person doing HR here. It's just going to be, CFO
Speaker 43
6:57
is going to be doing HR as well. Yes, I think they have a processor, like a clerk type position, a specialist, but not a manager position because they felt that the management duties could
Speaker 48
7:10
go to the CFO. Yeah, you don't see anything? You
Speaker 43
7:13
don't see any? It's a smaller agency and And we help them a lot with their transactions. I think it's okay. I mean, we actually looked at this position during the pay plan study, and I feel like we called it wrong more than they called it wrong because we called it an HR manager.
And after further review and talking with all the PSC staff, we felt confident that it should be a chief fiscal officer. They don't have anybody over fiscal, which is as it currently is. Well,
Senator Fredrick J. Love
Unverified
7:38
yeah, I think they need a CFO. That's not – but I also think they need somebody probably – How many people
Speaker 43
7:45
do they have over there? Oh, I'm going to say, I don't know if Danny's here. I want to say 90, but I'm not sure
Speaker 45
7:54
that's exactly right. I think, yeah, I think there's about 90 employees at PSA.
Senator Fredrick J. Love
Unverified
7:59
Okay. I don't know. That's a little concerning to me. I mean, and not to say that the CFO is not
going to be a capable person. Yeah. I just. Well, Senator Love, I
Speaker 43
8:12
will tell you that we are centralizing some HR functions over at OPM. Okay. So I think we'll be actively involved with their HR activities from our
Speaker 45
8:20
perspective as well. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank
you, Mr. Chair. Absolutely. Any other questions?
Okay. I will entertain a motion to review this report. all right got a motion in a second all those in favor say aye any opposed same sign all right motion to review is approved
Speaker 22
8:51
excuse me mr. chairman moving on to item e this is a request from the Department of Shared Administrative Services this is formerly the Department of Transformation and Shared Services the request is to create seven new positions from the OPM growth pool positions include one risk management supervisor
expert at an SPC 05 and six risk consultant positions and SPC 01 these positions will be assigned to the new office property risk with the state captive insurance program the estimated cost for these seven positions is six hundred and thirteen thousand dollars this includes the match and this is paid from trust funds for the state captive insurance program there is a typo in the costing spreadsheet in the packet that says general revenue but these are gonna be trust funds. OPM has recommended the seven positions. This will increase the number of
authorized positions at shared administrative services by seven.
Okay. Representative Rose, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And, uh, Mr.
Representative Ryan A. Rose
Unverified
9:49
Robinson, thank you for catching that on the GR. That was my, going to be my first question. I saw that in the, in the sheet. Uh, are there any I saw that there's existing staff that's maybe potentially carrying the load of some of these responsibilities and that's why the justification is
there for these are there other employees that are going to be in this office or already exist in this office yes sir there
are can you speak to how many
Speaker 43
10:26
yes sir um and i'll ask mr wallace to come join me if he's here because it's coming under him at the ebd department there are approximately 10 positions that were transferred from insurance to shared administrative services during the session and
Representative Ryan A. Rose
Unverified
10:42
that is for the office of
property risk yes sir and are they risk consultants as well yes sir you
Speaker 70
10:56
would recognize yourself right grant Wallace director of employee benefits division and office property risk so currently we have four positions filled one of them is the kind of what are they called administrator like the deputy director position i know we've changed the the title of it and then we've got uh one risk um
consultant that's kind of going to supervise uh light loss prevention then we have a claim somebody that's over our claims and a support person for the claims management that that's what the current positions are
Representative Ryan A. Rose
Unverified
11:36
right now uh so quickly for me to summarize real quick miss Barnhill said that there are 10 positions that were transferred over for this office. Of those 10, you're saying four
Speaker 74
11:48
are currently filled? And we are interviewing four, three right now?
Representative Ryan A. Rose
Unverified
11:53
So of the 10, four are filled, and you're requesting
Speaker 70
11:57
an additional seven. So what we're going to do with these that are coming on is create an appraisal team that is going to go out into the field and actually being appraising all of these facilities, making sure
Speaker 77
12:11
that we have them labeled appropriately and identified and valued
Representative Ryan A. Rose
Unverified
12:17
at the appropriate amounts. When did the hiring process begin on those first 10
Speaker 70
12:22
that you're still filling? So we brought them over right at July.
The initial four brought over July 1st. We posted and have had the job open probably two weeks, two and a half
Speaker 77
12:35
weeks now, and are starting to do the interviews on those. Okay,
Representative Ryan A. Rose
Unverified
12:41
so primarily the new seven hires that you're here for today, you said are going to be for? Primarily for
Speaker 77
12:49
the appraisal, the valuation of facilities across the state. And maybe this
Representative Ryan A. Rose
Unverified
12:54
is just ignorance on my part. So they are operating more as appraisers?
Speaker 70
12:59
right so they would go in and say uh say i say a high school is worth 40 million dollars they're the team that are actually uh reporting to us going in and saying yeah that building is worth 45 million dollars the contents are worth 500 000 and this is what we need to insure the property for this is the insured value that we need to have of that property we're actually going to be able to get you know this address and this building number and get records
cleaned up and organized appropriately do we
Representative Ryan A. Rose
Unverified
13:34
have anybody doing something similar to this
Speaker 70
13:36
already we are borrowing some members from the insurance department we're working with them during this transition to do some of this initial work
Representative Ryan A. Rose
Unverified
13:47
yes a grade yes so this is the people who are doing the work at present are on the similar scale correct position that you're looking to hire correct when would you anticipate
having all these hired hopefully uh
Speaker 70
14:03
within the next two three weeks i mean you know people have to give notices and all of those kind of things so you know give us a couple weeks to get interviews done a couple weeks uh to do a transition and get them on board so you know three four weeks that we can have these
Representative Ryan A. Rose
Unverified
14:19
people in place thank you for your latitude mr. chair just another question real quick one more and that was for the new seven positions that you're hoping to have higher in the
Speaker 70
14:26
next couple weeks not the other 10 i'm sorry this was that's with
Speaker 77
14:29
the other 10 the ones that are posted once these are approved we would get them posted and i would probably expect maybe a five-week process on that okay
Senator Kim Hammer
Unverified
14:36
thank you mr. chair senator hammer thank you mr. chair recognized thank you mr. chair grant refresh my memory this thing was well vetted through the committee process i remember um but with regards to the cost of hiring on the additional people was that factored into the savings or the cost of transitioning from what we used to have to what we're going
Speaker 70
15:00
to have under this yes sir the um overall personnel costs that stevens and everybody plugged into kind of all the valuations and
overall pro forma for it would are covering these costs we have enough ample in there for that to cover these costs
Senator Kim Hammer
Unverified
15:16
now that it's the reality of wanting to hire do you remember what the what the estimated number was against what
Speaker 85
15:23
is now the real number 613 000 so total for total personnel in all was 1.9
Speaker 70
15:29
million for the year for the first year there are some savings because it budgeted a full-time director you're only doing half of that because i'm taking on those responsibilities so
there are some things that we've been able to kind of right size and get lined up and again we can operate the personnel within that full amount even adding
Speaker 85
15:49
these positions on so is it your position that based on what we were told
Senator Kim Hammer
Unverified
15:55
when we were making the decision to go this route versus what it actually is now that the the cost of the personnel side is going to come in under what we were told um when you when you put all the people in it you know senator i i don't want to
Speaker 70
16:14
sit here and project that at this point i it i just don't have the numbers in front of me to really kind of sit down and project that out you know a lot of it's going to be the timing of when you hire somebody uh what you negotiate out as salaries and all those kind of things and i just I don't have all that information right now. Okay. Mr. Chair? Recommendation to the Chair, if
Senator Kim Hammer
Unverified
16:36
you don't mind. I know it's water under the bridge and cows out of the barn moment and all that stuff, but it would be nice maybe in about three months if they could come back with a report
of what the actual true cost personnel is going to be as attached to this, just so we could kind of pulse check it if the Chair wouldn't mind doing that. And, Grant, if you wouldn't mind doing that, it gives three months to kind of get everything on the ground and built up. It might be good to know that, if you don't mind. Is that okay, Mr. Chair? I
don't see any problem with that. Thank you. And let's see. Representative Springer, you're
Representative Joy Springer
Unverified
17:12
recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon. I'm just curious to know the people that you're looking at to hire in these positions,
are they like former, are they insurance adjusters, claim representatives of different insurance companies, or who are the? I think they would, yeah,
Speaker 70
17:28
they would have the same skill set. they're not necessarily appraising or adjusting damage. That's a whole different aspect of the business. But that skill set of being able to go in and say, you know, this square footage is valued at this amount, this property would be valued at this amount. So yes, I do think that
some experience in that work, some skill set that would be related to understanding how to appropriately do that work would, uh, be preferred, um, and, uh, recommended for anybody that would be applying. I would think so. Thank you very much. Representative, I mean,
Senator hammer, were you still needing to ask another question? Hold on. You're recognized.
Senator Kim Hammer
Unverified
18:19
Thank you. Actually, Mr. Chair, I want to make a comment about my request and give some justification for it. But part of the justification for the request is that we have these consultants come in and they give us estimates and they make projections and all that kind of stuff. And I think every once in a while we need to benchmark them against what they tell us that it's going to save us and what it's going to do. And this would just be a little snapshot to see if what they said in the recommendation to move this direction actually measures up to meet what they estimated.
and maybe I just wanted to explain that out loud why I think it would be good because if we've been led to believe it's going to save us this much in one area and it ends up not saving us that much or it could that'd be great but that's part of the reason for the
justification thank you thank you senator any other questions if not I'll entertain a motion to review All right, we've got a motion. We have a second. All right
Motion in a second. All those in favor say aye Any opposed same sign motion to
Speaker 22
19:31
review is approved Mr. Chairman, we're on to item F This is a request from the Department of Corrections for the post-prison transfer board The classification of revocation hearing officer is requested to be moved to the legal attorney job family Due to the requirement that the positions be filled with a licensed attorney there is no cost based on this request nor there any increases or decreases in the number of positions OPM has recommended the requested adjustment okay
you heard the presentation any questions all right I will entertain a motion got a motion second all right second all those in favor say aye any opposed same sign motion to review is approved all right mr
Speaker 22
20:20
chairman uh the last item uh for review and action is item g this is a request for continuation of two positions created out of act 871 special
language in the department of education's appropriation bill the two positions were created in august of 2024 but were not added to the agency's appropriation bill and they must be requested to continue so that's what we're doing here is just requesting that these two positions that are filled be continued into the next fiscal year
all right any discussion seeing none i will entertain a motion got a motion a second
all those in favor say aye any opposed same sign motion to review is approved
Speaker 28
21:08
All right, mr. Chairman items H Through P are all reports that require no action, but if any committee members have questions we can Go through those
Speaker 22
21:18
as needed Do the members have any questions
on any of the report? Okay, I've got one
All right, let's start with representative Richmond
You're recognized. Thank you. Mr. Chair on report a Richmond or Richardson Richmond
Speaker 101
21:39
Richmond. I was just making sure my life went on too. Oh,
Representative Marcus E. Richmond
Unverified
21:47
okay. There you are. I thought I hit Richmond. My brother from another mother. Anyway, Report H, Reduction in Force for the Military. Is there any description of what they're actually reducing? Are we reducing trigger pullers? Administrator, because here
in the previous is the authorization to increase increase support for a force that's being reduced. What do we know about that? Representative Richmond, I talked to
Speaker 60
22:14
the military department in the hall before the meeting, and
Speaker 22
22:18
they said, and I'm not exactly sure what this person did, but it was a federally funded position, and the funding went away, and that's what the purpose is for this position being eliminated, for this RIF.
Representative Marcus E. Richmond
Unverified
22:31
Okay, so the reduction in force
is actually one person? Yes, sir. okay never mind okay now representative Richard Sun thank
Representative R. Scott Richardson
Unverified
22:42
you so I just I had a quick question and I don't know if it's on the report or not but what the pay increases that were just approved that went into effect what are there any departments that are able to pay below what the basic increase is and
Speaker 43
23:02
if so why there's a provision that allows departments to pay less in some cases
what you're gonna see I think most regulars employees all went to the minimum some extra help employees in various departments were not adjusted all the way up to the minimum of the new grades and primarily that was due to budgetary concerns on the part of the departments and there's not a lot of of those but there are some okay i was just wondering because
Representative R. Scott Richardson
Unverified
23:27
i know we made the big push to raise everybody's salary and then if those didn't move i was curious of of why so no
Speaker 43
23:35
it's generally i think the departments are expected to pay for as much as they can for all the regular
positions and so okay taking care of those thank you man okay
any other questions about any of the reports all right do we have any other business to come before the committee All right, if not, we stand adjourned.
Agenda
A. Call to Order
Regular Business Items:
B. Request from the Governor’s Mansion Commission for one (1) position from the OPM Surrender Pool established by Arkansas Code Annotated §21-5-225(a). (James Caldwell, Chief Fiscal Officer, DSAS)
C. Request from Department of Military for one (1) position from the OPM Surrender Pool established by Arkansas Code Annotated §21-5-225(a). (Secretary, Brigadier General Olen Chad Bridges)
D. Request from Public Service Commission for one (1) position from the OPM Surrender Pool established by Arkansas Code Annotated §21-5-225(a) (Commissioner, Justin Tate)
E. Request from Department of Shared Administrative Services for seven (7) positions from the OPM Growth Pool established by Arkansas Code Annotated §21-5-225(b). (Secretary, Leslie Fisken)
F. Request from Department of Corrections-Post Prison Transfer Board to change to the Job Family and Job Series for the Revocation Hearing Officer. (Secretary, Lindsay Wallace)
Continuations:
G. Request from Department of Education for continuation of two (2) pool positions created in the Arkansas Department of Education’s Special Language Act 871, Section 28 of 2023. (Secretary, Jacob Oliva)
Reports:
H. Reduction in Force Report- Military
I. Employee/Relative Disclosure First Quarterly Report Continuation
J. Employee/Relative Disclosure Second Quarterly Report
K. Department of Corrections-Division of Community Correction’s Vacancy/Caseload Report.
L. August New Provisional Report (50) new positions are approved for (6) Four-Year Institutions of Higher Education and (38) new positions for (7) Two-Year Institutions of Higher Education. (Department of Education, Division of Higher Education. Dr. Ken Warden)
M. August Continuation Provisional Report for (2,309) existing positions are approved for (13) Four-Year Institutions of Higher Education and (856) existing positions for (23) Two-Year Institutions of Higher Education. (Department of Education, Division of Higher Education, Dr. Ken Warden)
N. Personnel Actions Report- Office of Personnel Management-Department of Transformation and Shared Services. (Leslie Fisken, Secretary)
O. Special Compensation and Recruitment Incentive Award Report
P. Extra Help Report
Q. Other business
R. Adjournment
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Speaker 1
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Speaker 11
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Representative Les Warren Chair
Unverified
Speaker 22
Senator Fredrick J. Love
Unverified
Speaker 43
Speaker 48
Speaker 45
Representative Ryan A. Rose
Unverified
Speaker 70
Speaker 74
Speaker 77
Senator Kim Hammer
Unverified
Speaker 85
Representative Joy Springer
Unverified
Speaker 28
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Representative Marcus E. Richmond
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Representative R. Scott Richardson
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