ALC-JBC Personnel

Alright members we're gonna call this meeting of the personnel subcommittee to order. Agencies to be resented the mistranslated are ready to go. Thank you Mr chairman. First items be one bureau of legislative research starts on page one of your packet. The currently authorized one hundred and thirty six positions. Your is requesting one new classification legislative economist at GS fifteen so on line nine first pager packet. Your request to surrender to positions a digital research tech in a reference analyst John was fourteen fifteen you're not currently filled. The bureau has to re classes it's lines twenty one and twenty two. Legislative admin services administrator it GS fourteen to bill or administrator to seal to. A senior legislative analyst to GS twelve to legislative economist yes fifteen. Change brings of the bureau's total request one hundred thirty four positions as a decrease of the two surrendered there are a couple pieces special language Mr chairman. The both continuing language section nine allows closed bureau personnel in great positions equal to that given to personnel and other state agencies any call of going to affect on July first and also the bureau director may make additional salary adjustment adjustments at his or her discretion. Seller payments are to be to maximums and if a payment because the seller to exceed the Max than plea would get the difference in a lump sum. Of pages four and five would be a large section has section eleven. This language allows bureau director utilize a specific set of classifications. Use of these positions would not be considered increasing bureaus authorized position total of which would be considered temporary ri classes across grades. A put simply sloughs appeared across great is needed to use the bureau's career ladder for employees and I wanna know that though this is continuing language there is one new title added to this year it's the Q. two seven one C. applications support specialist at IT five Mister minutes all have for the. Thank you Mr educations from the members. And. The. Representative you're recognized for a question. The. Okay thank you motion to adopt. I had a question. This senator Chesterfield you're recognized yes under the change in titles carry with them a change in pay great. Three four yes ma'am the request for legislative admin services Mr goes to a CO two and the to the Legislative economists goes from a GS twelve two GS fifteen in and of grade not necessarily and pay out and to defer to the director Gary on that thank you. Thank you senator. A motion to adopt. Can I get a second. All those in favor say aye. Opposed no motion carries. And. Thanks agency. Ms chairman will be too is legislative audit. Starts on page six of your packet. You're currently authorized two hundred ninety two positions not requesting any changes for it to keep your Tollette two ninety two but they do have the pieces special language. It's continuing languages section four on page seven. This language allows a lego at the flexibility to offer colas and other salary adjustments for the discretion of the legislative auditor. Allows for merit pay system under the legislative auditors direction after approval by the joint auditing committee it also allows lead artists pass minimum salary levels for personnel by twenty percent for no more than a third of their employees and that would be after approval from the Legislative Council or joint budget Mr minutes all have for. Thank you Sir any questions from the members. Senator Chesterfield risk recognized thank you thank you Mr chair of the the current a special language how long has it been the. As long as legislative are is been my agencies been there I could say as far as that back pass that's for. And it we we I have asked in the past please take a look at this there's nothing special about it it's just a continuation of what we have already done. Thank you. Thank you senator. Any other questions. If not can I get a motion to adopt. Motion the second all those in favor say aye. Opposed no motion carries thank you please continue. Chairman I'd be three the court of appeals start on page eight of your packet. The current authorized forty nine positions they're not requesting any changes for total forty nine positions. No questions motion to adopt a second all those in favor say aye. No motion carries please continue. Mr Miller before the administrative office of the courts and start on page nine. The curly authorized three hundred ninety eight positions administrative office of the courts request three new classifications of will be on lines nine through eleven a page nine. They are a C. judicial chief I. T. security architected IT on nine a you see grants manager GS on nine and A. O. C. payroll services specialist GSO six the first to these you are going to be used in request a new positions we'll see later in their report that there's gonna be re class. Agencies requesting or upgrade to an agency office manager Q. zero eight nine C. from G. S. O. seven two GS on nine. A new media pay raises for scene but you'll see feels this better lies the position with the work and with other personnel other agencies that have like duties. That's on line sixteen page nine. Your question to new positions using two of the previously mentioned titles criminalize twenty one and twenty two page nine. There's the AOC judicial chief I. T. security architect I. T. O. nine and a C. grants manager at she is none is provided dedicated person and I. T. cyber security role in a person to manage current and future grants. Yes your question Sir under for positions is unused growth to positions are bound page ten of the packet lines five through seventeen. The two court reporters and to trial court administrators these are currently on filled the originally granted to the new judges but they're no longer needed. There's one request for AOC. Payroll services specialist GSO five two a C. payroll services specialist GSO six this is one the new classifications I mentioned earlier that's gonna be on line twenty three. The changes bring a net decrease of two positions for a total of three hundred ninety six for a seeing Mr chairman that's all I have for it was. Thank you Sir any questions from the members. Represent gray you're recognized for a question. Okay. Representative Jean you have a question. Okay. Okay we have a motion to adopt the second. All those in favor say aye. Pose no. Motion carries please continue. Ms chairman Nixon's B. five office of the prosecutor coordinator starts on page twelve your packet. They're authorize currently twelve positions the requesting no change for a total of twelve that's all I have prosecutor coordinator Mr. I have a motion to adopt a second second all those in favor say aye. Opposed no. Senator hammer did you have a question that I miss you just a minute ago. You're recognized servant the no of thank you Mr chair on the administrative office of the court you said it decreases to positions but was there a total net increase to the salary package. I would need to refer to a see on the. I need to get off line higher cheer once hand legislative no we decrease positions but did we increase the overall outlay of the salary costs to the agency. Okay can I get we get Mister Sullivan commitments for the question. It would if not we can we can we will get we'll take your that off line thank you I think Senator thank. Okay please continue. The six is the next item is the Supreme Court the start on page thirteen of your package. They're authorized seventy three positions and their request is for seventy three positions reflecting no change Mr that's all have spring court thank you Sir we have. Any questions from members can I get a motion to adopt a motion and a second all those in favor say aye. Opposed no motion carries thank you please continue. Ida B. seven is the governor's office storm page fourteen of your packet. Currently authorize sixty positions the requesting no changes but they do have a piece of special language it's on page fifteen. It's section six in its continuing language that allows the governor's office to pay a maximum of twenty percent over the maximum salary salary levels to recruit retain exceptionally well qualified personnel this should be limited to a third of the positions in the governor's office ACT and must be approved by a LC or GBC that's all that Mr chairman. Okay. Representative junior were identified for question please our. Staff may know this the main the J. come up here how many of the sixty or field positions in the governor's office now. need for to. Jack okay. We think facsimile fifty three or filled at the current time okay fifty three yes Sir thank you. Senator Chesterfield recognized. Ninety ninety stock question how long is a special language been in effect is this new special language or have we been doing this for some time allowing the twenty percent again Senate bill as long as I've had the governor's office so a few years okay not special just in its at that okay thank you. Thank you senator. Representative gray you're recognized for a question thank you Mr chair at just to follow up kinda represented jeans question how many employees are being paid above the maximum salary currently. Okay you're recognized. Center. I think there may have been one since governor Hutchinson has been in office I'm not sure but we're two zero right now okay thank you. Thank you Representative any other questions. Seeing none can I get a motion to adopt a motion and a second all those in favor say aye. Those new motion carries thank you please continue. I to be eight is lieutenant governor's office currently authorized three positions my apologies to begin on page sixteen. I currently authorized three positions and they're requesting no change for the total three in Mr that's all. I have a motion to adopt a second. All those in favor say aye. Pose no. And passes continue please. I to be nine is the attorney general's office begins on page seventeen. Currently authorized one hundred sixty seven positions the requesting no changes for the total one sixty seven Mr minutes all and FOR AG's office thank you Sir any questions motion to adopt. A second. All those in favor say aye. Pose no motion passes thank you please continue. Mister chairman be ten is the auditor's office starts on page eighteen of your packet. Currently authorized two hundred eighty nine positions. Requesting no changes for the total of two hundred eighty nine that's all I have for the orders of Mister any questions from the members. Can I get a motion to adopt the second all in favor say aye. Opposed no motion carries thank you please continue. Mister chairman item be eleven is the commissioner of state lands they begin on page nineteen of your package. The current authorized forty five positions and they are requesting no change for forty five that's all I have commission state lands Mister. Any members have questions seeing none can get a motion to add up and second. All those in favor say aye. Opposed no motion carries. Please continue. Mister chairman ida B. twelve is the next item secretary of state to begin on page twenty of your packet. The authorized one hundred and fifty two positions secretary of state wishes to add ten positions to the capitol police to second or sos sector state police sergeants and eight sector state police corporals if you look on page twenty those are lines eight through seventeen. They have no other choice changes so the new positions will bring the total to one hundred sixty two positions they do have a piece of special language. Section fifteen and it's continuing language. And it says if a sufficient funds existed term by the secretary of state additional salary payments can be made employees who got law enforcement certifications above that of basic certification. These payments are optional at the discretion of the secretary of state funds cannot come from revenue set aside for other programs within the department and again this language is dependent on sufficient funds being available. The payment schedule of the languages six is for general certificate three hundred dollars annually an intermediate certificate six hundred annually. Advanced nine hundred annually and senior certificate twelve hundred dollars annually. They can be made the payments can be made monthly quarterly semi annually or annually the following classifications secretary of state capitol police chief secretary of state police sergeant secretary of state corporal secretary of state capitol police captain. Payment order the sections partial relapse shall not be considered a salary for retirement benefits but are subject to withholding all federal and state taxes they also should not be considered a seating the maximum salary of an employee. Mr and that's all I have for. Trigger stick. Representative you're recognized for a question of this staff may not be an emphasis in by a sector state here. It please come for. Identifiers of the record your curtain almond secretary of state's office. Mike where sectors itself review Jean. Thank you Mr chairman of with the ten additional capital hill police what will have to give our total force. A thirty five and we're twenty five right now yes Sir are they all field there is one position of the new ones that my understanding is that is currently being interviewed for and not filled with the other positions have been filled by thank you. Thank you Representative. Represent route with your at identified for motion thank you Mr chairman I was just going to share with the committee that we approve these in the A else the personnel committee earlier and so they they requested to add ten to the strength in the the position of the capitol police so we we at approved that at that time thank you Mr. Thank you Sir. Senator Chesterfield you're recognized yeah I'm following up on Representative Wooten we had already approved these what are we bringing them to personnel if ALC is already approved. I know we did I'm just trying to figure out from staff why then are we considering them twenty one answer that force please. Yeah I was there yeah I was there. Okay Senator field the you Sir will try in your right we did for the US every time eight positions are approved in the interim before their added to a bill they must come before a LCG or J. B. C. A. R. C. G. C. R. J. B. C. during the session in order to be added to their bill to be re request this permanent so the redundancy is supposed to make sense yes ma'am all right in the special language again has been there for some time. Or is this new special language no ma'am is not new or thank you. Thank you senator. Senator hammer you're recognized thank you Mr chair over here too far left. Based upon approval here in the budget process when would you expect to have the actual boots on the ground have and put in place and ready to go senator nine of the ten people have already been hired for my understanding okay so we're ready to go for the general session and then for your response and everything right yes Sir our thank you thank Mister thank you senator any any other questions from members. Okay I have a motion to adopt a get a second. The second all those in favor say aye. Opposed no. Motion carries thank you please continue thank you Mr. Mr Max at next items be thirteen treasurer of state starts on page twenty three of your package. The current authorized thirty five positions they're requesting no changes to stay at thirty five that's all I have for the treasure Mr chairman thank Sir any questions members motion to adopt and second all those in favor say aye. Opposed no motion carries thank you please continue. Mister chairman I'd be fourteen is the board of election commissioners the start on page twenty four of your packet. The current authorized seven position the board request the cross grade N. S. B. E. C. deputy director at GS ten to business operations manager it yes eight. That would be the only change that's on line nine. Keep the number of positions requested seven reflecting no change in position totals and that's all I have for the board of election commissioners Mr thank you Mr. Tina and to get a motion to adopt the second. All those in favor say aye. Opposed no motion carries continue please. Mister chairman item be fifteen. Is the governor's mansion commission it's on page twenty five your report excuse me packet. They're authorize ten positions currently in requesting no change that's all I have for governor's mansion. I have a motion to adopt can get a second second all those in favor say aye. Opposed no motion carries thank you please continue. Mister chairman item be sixteen is the department of energy and environment this will be there administration insured services division it starts on page twenty six. Currently this is authorized for one position that would be the secretary. Divisions requesting to new classifications in ENE chief of communications a GS twelve and any chief of staff at GS fifteen will be on lines nine and ten page twenty six. The question fourteen title changes in many of these will change AT T. cute in a or just D. two or the changing prefixes we've seen with previous agencies of on page twenty six. Three line fifteen. If you look at line twelve on page twenty seven house you'll see ministration shared services has a growth to position this is a transfer in from oil and gas commission you'll see this on or I guess commission's report as well as in any chief counsel. The division request eleven re classes the start on page twenty seven line twenty. To run the line nine on page twenty eight. Administration shares services request to transfer in a hundred eight positions from the division's most will come from AT Q.. The store on line fourteen of page twenty eight when they finish the report or. This section of the for. The net of all these changes requested one hundred and nine that's an increase of the one hundred eight transfers coming in Mister chairman that's all I have for this division. You're going to continue to the next division. Next division is Geological Survey. Be sixteen at home would you have a question one second here. Senator Chesterfield you're recognized and I hate to hold up progress but you moving from one two hundred and nine. Is that because this is the new thing that came out of transfer transformation is that why we're having this huge thing they are transferring in from shared services but or two shared services use me but beyond that I would need to defer to the agency PM okay let's defer to them. Anybody from the department here this morning. Anybody in Mr believe you want to commence with the questions force again. Okay these. Said they are transfers existing positions that are transferred from the geological group live on gas and AT Q. says they're not new positions just amendment of existing positions into the shared services model. House bill within the. Okay thank you thank you senator. We have a couple questions now hold on second. Representative love you're recognized thank you Mr chair so we're moving these positions but also re Class A fund so would necessitate the reclassification. Actually represented blood mainly it's title changes were we now have a designated as energy environment instead of the Arkansas department of environmental quality to the Arkansas on get on gas commission that's mainly title changes okay so just title changes and not necessarily great change by okay alright thank you. Thank you Representative Representative gray you're recognized thank you Mr chair I'm just looking on page twenty eight reclassification of positions are changing from two administrative analyst you too graphic artists just wondered what our need for graphic artists was. In this particular department. One okay you into the. A. I think would bet the best with the agents to respond to that particular one thank you. Is the one from the department of energy here. If you identify yourself for the record please you're recognized answer the question. April golden chief of staff department of energy and environment. You want to repeat the question for. Yes thank you on page twenty eight it looks like a reclassification of positions were reclassifying to administrative assistance two two graphic artists and then also just found another one where title change request to a graphic artist so it looks like we're gonna have at least three graphic artists and just trying to understand why we need graphic artists in this department. So one of the Offices insured services is our office of communications and our office of communications has a staff I think right now. Three four and I think they got three positions in the hiring process but they do all of our newsletters are signage basically everything for the entire department and all the divisions within the department so those graphic those administrative assistants actually serve as actual graphic artists now so this title change would just be allowing us to have a position title that actually reflects the work that those individuals are doing okay thank you. Thank you Representative Representative Wooten you're recognized for a question. This is of legal chief counsel. Is that the one it was moved from all ink AS to the shared services to be chief legal counsel for the entire department. Yes Sir is he still is he still it of doing the work for all I believe he was in there I think he said he still working at all and gas with these the chief counsel for the whole division of the whole. Yes Sir that Shane Cory and he is the assistant director of the oil and gas commission as well as chief counsel for the entire department and he is currently doing dual duty in both those roles through of of thank you Mr chairman. Thank you Representative the questions. Okay Mister injury may continue. The Geological Survey begins on page thirty four of your packet. To be sixteen eighty. The curly authorized twenty nine positions they request to re classes those will be on lines nine and ten. two AGS specialist GSO four one to maintenance technician at GSO four and one to an administrative specialist three ages so for their a planned to transfer these to add manager services. Transfers bring geological survey's request to eighteen that's a decrease of the eleven transfers and that's. Offer Geological Survey the next. The division is liquefied petroleum gas board we have this one thing we would question Sir. Senator Chesterfield U. John the chair to Johnny Johnny could you tell me what our G. SO four starting salaries. Yes ma'am. Yes of a just a for starting salaries twenty nine thousand forty six dollars. And what the the AGS specialist was making the same thing. The house special a. And we're not paying these people anything I'll just say that okay thank you. Thank you senator represent Wooten you're recognized for a question did I hear the word decrease. The total request for the division is a decrease of eleven that is the I just want you to two four to hear that word again yes thank you thank you Mr. Thank you Representative. Representative love you're recognized. Thank you Mr chair just just a point of clarification. Tony what did you say this salary was did you say was under twenty two thousand no Sir it's twenty nine thousand okay six dollars okay I just Mr at thirty three twenty one out since they how is that okay thank you. Thank you Representative. Okay Senator questions now please continue. Divisions liquefied petroleum gas board to begin on page thirty six of your packet. The current authorize six positions the only change they'll be gas board wishes to make as the title changed go from LP gas inspector to Ian inspector one that's on line eight. Total number of positions remains unchanged at six. That's it for that division the next division. We sat with a question co chairman eaves you're recognized thank you Mr chairman so with represented wouldn't question by the decrease I mean it's decreasing here but it's moving it to shared services right so it's not an overall decrease in the department I guess correct yeah okay. Thank you Sir. Okay please continue. Oil and gas commission is the next division there on page thirty seven your packet the current authorized forty positions. They're requesting three title changes you'll see those on lines eight through ten of their section. All guests made a two for one swap in the interim and any chief counsel it GS fifteen Missy that on line fifteen. And this is the position you saw on the previous report for administration shared services. Of the commission's requesting one re class from environmental health manager GS ten to an ENT branch manager GS ten bill one twenty to report. The next page has eight positions going gas commission wishes to transfer to Anne's administration insured services division. Those will be the entirety of page thirty eight. So what will the transfers bring only guess commissions total request a thirty one positions. That's it for that division next division is Arkansas department of environmental quality or eighty Q.. No begin on page thirty nine. Currently authorize four hundred and twenty three positions. Eighty two is requesting three new classifications in any chief of communications at GS twelve and you need in the chief of staff GS fifteen. Any professional engineer senior managers GS thirteen you're going to see those on lines nine ten eleven. Nicks sectional report details twenty five title changes will start on line sixteen and they run the line eighteen of page forty. Many of these are seeing a changing prefixes we've seen before with this department and others. Eighty cues requesting twenty six request is the right these run from line twenty four page forty. They go to line seven of page forty two. And as with other agencies eighty QS transferring positions to the administration insured services division of the department this case the request for eighty nine positions the most on page forty two. By twelve no finished eighty two section. There is changes a request of three hundred thirty four positions at the decrease of the eighty nine being transferred out. And that is all I have for the department of energy environment structure. Any questions from members Representative love you're recognized thank you Mr chairman. I've been attending. Special language for and personnel for awhile hello large is shared service is going to be after this full transformation. Because we continue to transfer positions into shares services. How how large is that the agency going to be after we finish this this morning we went into the yes the Representative love each department has their own shared services section for their shared services are not being transferred to transformation that former transformation shared services but like energy environment has a shared services division public safety has a shared services division so it's going to vary among the various departments as to how large each one of the sections is basically shared services covers the fiscal accounting legal and public information and each one of those fears farm okay in the in either although share services is there not one coordinated there's there's not an executive are administrative yes the pharmacy transformation shared services has not office personnel office state procurement and we provide guidance you know to the other agencies but They all have their own they all have their own particular division yes Sir okay alright thank you. Thank you Representative represent Wooten you're recognized for a question would be better. If the executive branch would use the phrase central office or cabinet level that is confusing you know I've had I've had many people ask me when you go transformation shared services and then you've got shared services and I keep hearing it over and over again it looks like clarification would be the either make it to cabinet level. Where it all the more in the cabinet level there and then or call will central office or something that's all okay but wouldn't it be better. For clarification. Thank you. But these positions if I'm not correct what from what you just said they're still within those division each division so they're not right their within that particular cabinet so there's executive level and right for it from those cabins hi okay. Thank you Representative any other questions from members. If not can I get a motion to adopt I have a motion the second all those in favor say aye. Opposed no motion carries thank you. This. Okay a members we have a letter as we move into Our Human Services we need to adopt this level letter that was it on your desk I was okay I'm sorry being handed out right now so hold on a second. Okay the everybody has the letter numbers are no can you explain this letter so we can adopt this yes Sir very simply this is correcting mistake we main data entry if you look on page forty eight you'll see that DHS chief of communication listed as SCO three the department did not request for it to be as Sierra three they wanted to be a GS fifteen and I recommendation was a GS fifteen so we're just correcting the grade on that title. Any questions on that members if not can I get a motion to adopt this letter motion and a second all those in favor say aye. Opposed no. Motion carries okay Mister ranger feel please four with this from the thank you. Thank you Mr chairman I to be seventeen is the administrative services or the secretary's office for DHS to begin on page forty seven of your packet. Curly authorize one positions one position that would be the secretary question no change. That's it for that division the next division is aging adult and behavioral health services. Which is on page forty eight of your package. The first thing I'd mention is the new classifications there on page forty eight lines nine through thirteen you may recall then the last budget cycle the title will appear on all of the reports for each day at DHS division so you're going to see these on each division because the system we use assign them to DHS as a whole so there will be on each report. There's more make you familiar with that one just after these classifications on line eighteen page forty you'll see three positions. It would be eliminated they are admin specialist three GS so for stationary engineer it yes so for an equipment technician GSO to these are currently unfilled. Next session starts on the last line of page forty eight Mister line eight page fifty. These are twenty five re classes. The rest of the reported tales five transfers in from other DHS divisions and ten out. The new these changes is a total of one thousand one hundred eighty five positions as decrease of eight at this division there some special language Mister chairman. Section thirteen continuing late language that enables the division to offer special allowance to such a psychiatric specialist. DHS behavioral health general physician psychologist supervisor. And these may include Laos is also allowed for you and this person. Sellers can be paid from professional care income receipts federal funds foundations and other private sponsors. Sells the salary levels cannot exceed two and a half times that of and and authorize seller for that position. Before being paid allowances must be approved by the state CFO and reviewed by the personnel committee. Page fifty three the next piece of special language it's section fifteen continuing language well as the division to utilize job sharing FOR nursing positions. And each individual working under this language is limited to twenty four hours a week the aim is to offer we can show us without increasing the number of positions. Section sixteen on page fifty four is continuing language. The grass the division ability to use it contingent positions if they cancel a private provider contract. Positions and sellers are governed by the class and contacting DHS and U. amis's appropriation acts. They would also states that a DHS wishes to continue our growth pole position used under this language must be requested as a new position in the agency's budget request. Actions are the signs required transformation shared services approval and legislative review. XP section eighteen on page fifty five. Enable the division to pay extra help eighty five percent of the maximum annual salary of comparable position and also caps extra help hours eighteen hundred a year. next pieces section twenty on pages fifty six and fifty seven it's continuing language that allows specific employees at the state hospital salary adjustments per the division director plus the two titles only news the pay grid for teachers at the deaf and blind school as a template. Well as for the transfer funds to cover the adjustments for the state CFO and also allows the use of the of the division salary savings if any. Why would set the number of work days for the employment year for the two titles the work schedule leave and it's a cruel one near that of the teachers at the blind and deaf school. Language applies to personal hired after seven one two thousand thirteen for those hard prior they can operate under this language or continues they had previously should the decision to change could be made only once a must have been made by. June thirtieth of two thousand thirteen. Further language states any accrued annual holiday leave up to two hundred forty hours as of June thirtieth two thousand thirteen will be paid employees that used to work under this language and any additional would be forfeited. Accrued sick leave as of June thirtieth two thousand thirteen should be exhausted for any new may be taken lastly how are hazardous duty pay is authorized by this language where applicable. That's all for this division. We do have a question. Representative Jean you're recognized. Thank you Mr chairman. Ms Borneo ****. Page three of the executive recommendation with three lesson I'm assuming on page forty eight those three positions they were eliminated that's the difference yes Sir. Of course they're not field. Have they ever been filled. Are they funded positions. Their own funny position thank you. The route you're recognized. Of homepage of fifty eight. New classification request of deputy finance the communications officer business operations chief counsel. Then for the chief. Is do they have their own central operation amend their own accounting group. Yes Sir will. Was. Then I'll have a division shared services within the. They do have a division of shared services within department services division what were we still having all this and in the child care and early childhood of although. Okay we would have that it should be transferred to the other division I think the insurance for it I would hope that there would be some you know elimination as a result of combining of okay but the how many how many chief financial officers do they have over there to represent this this thank Tony can answer this question for. Represent wouldn't it if you remember bart when bart that begins presentation we talked about these two classifications right here to beginning it because the way the system works all of these. The classifications online on lines nine through thirteen show up on everyone of DHS is divisions the reality is is there not these are only being used in their shared services section okay so the it's because the way ours the system works the generates this reports it's a it's an anomaly they shouldn't really be there they really should only be and their shared services section. If the eight Uranus is so they're they're there when they show up but this positions only exist in a shared services section they don't have a deputy chief financial officer in everyone of their divisions. What then. Only one one where one well do we show it is it because the report is not been. Updated or well the way the system works that debt prepares these reports for water because DHS is still one business area even though it separate divisions it's still in business or the way the report pulls in which it's showing those positions for whatever reason in the report like I said it's it's a it's an anomaly or a I guess a type of more than anything else that they're showing up in every division they should only show up for the shared services division. Find. Mister one a I will. I will stay one more time they've got fifteen hundred and eighty seven vacant positions over there over a hundred of them have been vacant for over two years dating back to twenty sixteen of the you know one more time this situation is got to be addressed not only here but in other agencies I mean it's just it's gotten to the point. we're we're we're looking at times up I hate. we're looking at the close to seventy million dollars. even though it can be moved or I am. You know is it being utilize wirelessly or we build a good steward when we have all the center budgets thank you Mr chairman. Thank you Representative. Representative will love you're recognized. Thank you let me follow up on Representative Williams point I I just wanna answer of those positions and then we have how many of we paying insurance on. Respond if you represent a love the last Malek there's about fifteen hundred and thirty vacant positions about five hundred of AS one budgeted insurance was not being paid on that bad thousand approximately eight thousand were budgeted positions which would require the payment of insurance okay Senator thousand. In their on field and then a let me go back to when we had secretary grades on here from the division of under. Well The of corrections and he had the same he has the same issue and so I am Representative will not I'm glad that you're on this because this is a big issue where we're having a thousand positions here where we pan insurance on the on field we have hundreds of positions over there that I feel that we're paying insurance on so. Sell it in somewhere in the state is going to have to find a way to kind of correct this because we're keeping on field positions so that we can have salary savings or whatever to to to make up for. Something that we were not really paying and and all we're doing is just. Man this this of waste this is a waste I just put it like that and so we're going to have to correct this I mean we're going to have to bite the bullet. In fund what we need to fund and not in and make this correction Mr chair because and this is this is something that we need to correct. The artificial Representative yes thanks Sir. Representative Jean you're recognized. Ms Martel of these eleven hundred. How many of those positions are funded. I have a I'm sorry of eleven hundred are the ones that Mr would referred to not all of them are funded there were about fifteen hundred miss written was referring to and five hundred of them were not funded okay so and about a thousand words but I will point out and DHS this case several these are low level positions and they have tremendous turnover at the DDS centers and so some of those positions I think they're definitely planning on funding I mean planning on filling. Okay thank you thank you Mr chairman. Yes Sir. Representative would you recognize. Miss miss grant hill fully understand what you're saying but when I look at an agency this got fifteen hundred eighty nine five hundred over one feel that's a thousand positions people out here you know I understand the turnover situation with I do not understand why we hold positions of ninety five dating back to twenty eight of dating back to twenty sixteen it is you know is is this is just ridiculous and we're we're charge and everyone knows positions of thousand position we're charging four hundred twenty dollars a month and back to senator hammer's comments one day last week is this was intended to attack this very same situation by making them I AT and to the the the is you be the fun and what happened they've gone ahead and had the and is the positions in just agreed to pay the money so where we have what we have perpetuated here is a is a is a subterfuge I think to exactly what's happening in these agencies don't understand and I've been told it's a budget a written this budget situation to change it I'm telling you is not is just a matter of saying we're going to pay our of we're going to pay a portion of the health insurance for our employees and the each agency will have to each and agency will have to have this in their budget one level this is fifteen million dollars will cover our employees and we need to be present in the charades and these good earnings with this budget thing up and down up and down up and down I intend to deal with it in the session. Other again anywhere but I think is the right thing to do was chairman thank you thank you Representative. I see no other questions at this time so we can please continue. Mr the next divisions child care and early childhood education begins on page fifty eight of your packet. Gotta be seventeen be. Current authorized one hundred and eighty eight positions if you look below the new classifications request that we seen starting on line nineteen there are nine re classes in these finish their section of the report. Division of child care and early childhood education is request is for one hundred eighty eight positions that reflects no change in position number. Next division is B. seventeen C.. Division of children family services also known AS DCFS begin on page sixty of your package. Other as one thousand two hundred eighty one positions if you look at the report on lines nineteen through twenty five of page sixty you'll see seven re classes. On the next page Linus five six and seven you'll see three position transfers one coming into DCFS into going out administrative services. Re classes and transfers bring DCFS is request to one thousand two hundred and eighty positions that's a decrease for the division of one. Next division is B. seventeen D. county operations are county ops. Begins on page sixty two of your packet. Currently authorize one thousand eight hundred fifty five positions if you look at nine a excuse me line eighteen. See fifty positions to be surrendered and they're all local office administrative assistance GSO three these run the line twenty three of paid sixty four in all the three are unfilled. Fourteen we classifications star on the next page eight line six in these run the line nineteen. County up request to transfer seven positions in in one out to the death squad division. The changes bring carry ons request to one thousand eight hundred eleven that's a decrease of forty four there's a piece of special language. Section nine is continuing language that allows county ops in the event of a declared state or federal disaster to see the two hundred forty hour per quarter limit on the purchase of temporary helping to waive the one thousand our year limit on extra help positions I'm sorry that was on page sixty seven. Question senator Chesterfield you're recognized yes thank you Mr chair is the surrender of positions real or is this just being transferred somewhere else. We need to defer to K. on that sessions are actually been surrendered will not be continued next year they're not going to shared services transformation any the numbing alright thank you and the special language is still not special. This is a bit newer but yes ma'am thank. Thank you senator we have another question. Representative Jean you're recognized. Miss Barney of the ones render their not funded. Right thank you. Thank you. We continue. Nicks visions B. seventeen E. developmental disabilities services or DDS the starts on page sixty eight of your package. They're currently authorized two thousand five hundred and seventy nine positions. If you look at line eighteen you'll see twenty five growth to positions all these are registered nurses at MPO one. The report of a forty five for twenty five positions what we do that this past August in the personal committee. Story on page seventy you'll see seventy four reclassification these run to page seventy three. Less of their two transfers into the division into out this will be the bottom of page seventy three lines twenty one through twenty four. Total quest for DDS is two thousand five hundred fifty nine positions that's a decrease of the twenty from the swap. Next division B. seventeen F.. Administrative services also known as the director's office if you look on page seventy five this for this section starts give me this division starts. Great authorized six hundred ninety seven positions. If you look online eighteen nineteen you'll see one recommended title change a commercial artist one slash commercial excuse me graphic artist one that would just go to graphic artist. There were recommendations for the elimination of two positions fiscal support specialist GSO four and a purchasing technician ages so for these lines twenty four and twenty five you'll find those at the bottom of page seventy five these are unfilled. Nicks section starts on page seventy six line six and go to one twenty four page seventy eight. These are sixty one re classifications. Their main report shows thirteen transfers in to the director's office eleven out. The result of all the changes is an executive recommendation of six hundred ninety seven positions reflecting zero changes in position totals and there's a special language. Page eighty one you'll see section fourteen is continuing language authorizes a special provision for nursing direct care educational staffing program to be paid from state and federal funds appropriated in each DHS divisions ACT stopping is for stipend is for nursing students attending a credit nursing institutions to become an RN LPN see in a residential care assistant residential care technician residential care supervisor and behavioral health aide. Staples five thousand dollars per person per year and student use the stop and has to work full time for the division that awarded upon their graduation. The term of the employment is equal to the number of years stopping was awarded an accepted. And if this student leaves the position he or she is into fault of their stopping contract in repayment of the state and will be required. The division that participate in of program they determine the number stipends a available annually. Next piece of languages section fifteen it's continuing language. On pages eighty two and eighty three. Allows the ages to provide lump sum bonuses to nursing and direct care personnel on the various divisions for recruitment and retention. These are in addition to maximum salary limits and apply to seven specific titles the next one bonuses are four thousand two thousand one thousand and it depends on which title supplied to. We would also set up a pay schedule for the bonuses announcer cruising six month one year to year intervals. It's employee lease or is fired prior to for filling term required to get the full amount he or she would forfeit any remaining bonus. The next division is B. seventeen G. medical services. Begins on page eighty four of the packet. Current authorize one hundred thirteen position recommendation surrenders and admin specials three at GS so for see that on line eighteen that position is on field. Medical services as three re classes and they start at the bottom of the page on line twenty four. And run to line six of page eighty five. Divisions transfer in one position out to dip score a DHS slash DMS assistant director for fiscal. A GS fourteen if you look on page eighty five see that on line eleven. Res medical services recommendation one hundred eleven that's a decrease of two positions. Russian languages continuing language on page eighty six. Section ten and it's similar to language it dates walnuts did squash use me and other agencies language is a tobacco funded positions cannot continue with non tobacco funds if they run out unless appropriated by the General Assembly approved by the governor. This information is to be made available to new hires and current personnel on tobacco fund positions and put an employee handbooks and professional services contracts paid by tobacco moneys when possible. I have a question Representative love you're recognized A thank you Mr chair I was I was well as we went three. A couple of these. The agency request an executive recommend different and I I know that you you will have to take of since I'm not on the committee I know you either take a vote on on either you gonna do the agency request executive ranks so. I was. I was just kind of. Yes no question you about and take action on these are. Okay fine okay fine with the differences on those because of the service of this one has a different agency verses executive recommendation what though the one prior has an executive of a difference in the executive recommendation versus the agency request so I'm I'm incident to the chair not necessarily in regards to taking the action on the. Twenty one answer the for I can't. By Representative love so. If the request the. Normally within agency will make their their agency request portion in the executive will come behind them making executive recommendation in most cases throughout this part these hearings the executive recommendation there there might not have been an agency requests for any reason I can't speak to these in particular came may be able to handle that or the agency but in most cases the executive recommendation was made Without an agency request in some instances okay may be able to speak a little more to that but yes Sir basically agency request an inch an executive recommendation of the same and some places where you're seeing differences it's when the agency is used utilized position other than authorized they've used the position at a lower level but that they really wanted to go back to its authorized level but looking at these report that shows the differences there which really we're doing with agency wants five with the executive director here okay so what what I'm asking Mr chair is is is a committee going to entertain the agency requested executive in. That's what I meant I guess that's what I'm asking is usually. We may take up the agency requests and saying we vote for the agency request so we might vote for the executive Rick so that's coming it's it's really a technical question to the to have the committee is going to dispose of this not necessarily. Anything that there hasn't been a what miss Barney on the sand I'm I'm just asking. Are you gonna take up the executive wrecked verses the agency request which one are we going to do a because we will we rolled several of them and I know we had to take action on yes Sir Representative love that the the committee this committee can do either one or some semblance of both it's up to the committee how you do it most everything we've as we've been rolling through we've been recommended the committee's been recommending the executive recommendation but you are correct as a committee you could do one or the other or some combination of both if you so determined that would be it would be up to the committee how they want to do that okay well what I'm saying is usually you do that by division and not by unless you just gonna take it all up and just say executive reckon that's it yes Sir what we've been doing we've been doing the whole department at it okay we're letting the presenters to the whole departments present the whole department and they're divisions in and to one vote for the entire department if you want to pull one out we can absolutely point vote on it separately if that if that's something that you would like to do no no no okay thank you thank thank you rip the. Okay please. Okay next division is of medical services B. seventeen G. begins on page eighty four of your packet. The current authorized one hundred thirteen positions. Recommendations surrenders an admins specialist three GSO four. One eighteen. Sure I think we've heard this division already yeah my apologies. The division is it be seventeen H. U. services are DYS. Page eighty seven in your packet. The card authorized one hundred seven positions there seven re classes you'll see these on page eighty seven the last section on that page lines nineteen through twenty five. DO AS request to transfer six positions in from other divisions and six out. Primarily to admin administrative services. Three classes and transfers give you services a total request of one hundred seven positions as zero changing position total there's a piece of special language. Page eighty nine section thirteen it's continuing language. Hello DYS to use extra help is contingent positions in a residential services setting. Their three hundred twenty extra help positions available in their governed by the classic compact. The positions are using a non contracted services situation but if the US contract services out these extra help positions we go back into the pool of three twenty. Leslie these continue contingent extra help positions are exempt from the limitation of ours. The next division is disqualified provider services and quality assurance item be seventeen I begin on page ninety of your package. They're currently authorized to and seventeen positions. The report lists ten reclassification the start on page ninety line nineteen they were on the line seven of the next page. This call request to transfer for positions into the division and five out. This will be the last section page ninety one. The transfers re classes bring disclosure of recommendation to the total of two hundred sixteen positions as a decrease of one. Mr that's all I have for DHS. Thank you Sir take no as in other questions carrying a motion to for executive wrecked I have a motion and a second all those in favor say aye. Opposed no. Motion carries. Thank you mistranslated. Yes moving on to the department of education. Thing it. This recall you're welcome to begin. Thank you Mr chair. The department of education start on page ninety two which is item be eighteen. The first one is. The administration and shared services the department currently has one authorized position fifty five positions were transferred in from various department of education divisions giving them a total of fifty six positions and you can see this on page ninety two lines fourteen to the end of the report they have also asked for one position re class public school program manager in accounting operations manager found on page ninety two line nine. The next one is on B. eighteen a Martin Luther king junior commission on page ninety six they currently have for authorized positions and have no changes. The next one is the department of education it is on page ninety seven item B. eighteen B.. The department of education general education currently has three hundred and seventy one authorized positions they received seven rate classes found on page ninety seven lines nine through fifteen thirty six of those positions have been transferred to shared services found on page ninety seven line twenty and continuing on to the end of the report the next affected these changes will leave them with three hundred and thirty five physicians they also have some special language I'll go over now and I would like to remind the committee that all of the special language I'll be going over is continuing language and will only be changing the date. On page one hundred the special language states that appropriation for the salary of the commissioner of the department of education shall be the sole and exclusive authority for his or her salary they are prohibited from accepting any additional salary from any other source for the performance of his or her duties as commissioner. The next one is. On page one hundred one through one hundred and three Nespresso languages ask for the continuation of the establishment of full position of no more than five information tacticians the continuation of the poll of ten general salaries position A two grade GS fifteen. The next. Is B. eighteen C. which is the department of education public school fund you can find on page one hundred and four. The department of education's will find currently has fifty five authorized positions with one position on line eight being transferred to shared services this will bring your total down to fifty four positions. The next one is public school facilities and transfer transportation on page one hundred and five they currently have thirty one authorized physicians and have no changes. The next division is the Arkansas school for the blind which is on page one hundred and six. They currently have one hundred and five authorized positions however for those positions have been transferred to share services leaving them with a hundred and one positions they also have several pieces of special language the first one is going to be on page one hundred and seven. This continuing language allows for special allowances be available to employees who perform duties and addition to their normal duties I cannot exceed thirty five hundred per school term for anyone employee during each fiscal year. The next one is on page one hundred and eight. No employee shall be paid an additional salary or receive additional compensation other than reimbursement for actual expenses. The next one you can find on page one hundred and eight. Employees in the classifications listed who work in the summer shall be authorized additional compensation an amount not to exceed one twelfth of their annual salary for each month worked. The next one is on page one hundred and ten. This language allows the salary of teachers may be adjusted to the rate Hey closest to the annual salary they would have received from their previous employer upon employment at the school for the blind. Next one is on page one hundred eleven. This language states that if the General Assembly provides public school districts with teacher raises the school of the blind shall be included. And the last special language for them. Is on page one hundred and twelve and a hundred and thirteen. Employees in the classifications listed are authorized by the school for the blind that just current or new employees to at least the minimum level of compensation for public school employees the school may also implement salary adjustments to maintain equity between their teacher salaries and those of the central Arkansas public school system. The next division is on page one fourteen it is Arkansas school FOR the death. They currently have a hundred and sixty authorized position. Positions they've asked for one reclassification found on page one fourteen line nine they're also transferring for positions in a shared services found on line fourteen to seventeen leaving them with a hundred and fifty six total positions. They share the same special language with the school for the blind with an addition of. on page one hundred and eighteen. This continuing language states that the shift work must begin no earlier than two PM and and no later than eight AM the following day. The next division is the educational television and that can be found on page one hundred and twenty three. They currently have one hundred and two positions and will remain at that total the only changes they've asked for to re classes on lines nine and ten of the report now also have a couple of special language. The first one is on page one hundred and twenty four. A currently states to allow a maximum of five extra help part time or temporary positions when needed at a pay not to exceed those in the class and compact they've been exempt from limitation of ours either by act or regulation. Next one is on page one hundred and twenty five. It states that a maximum of forty six extra help positions can be needed at Hey not to exceed those in the class and compact these are also related to specific projects and are exempt from limitations hours either by act or regulation. The next the division is the Arkansas state library which can be found on page one hundred and thirty. They currently have fifty to authorize positions but are losing to deter transferred to shared services they have asked for one reclassification found on line nine and these changes will bring their total positions to fifty. The next one is northwest technical institute which can be found on page one hundred and twenty seven. They currently have seventy five authorized positions they had once what pool during the interim to northwest technical institute director found on line eight they also asked for one reclassification found on line fifteen there are no changes to their authorized total positions and will remain at seventy five and they have one piece of special language which can be found on page one twenty eight and it states. The continuation for full time staff and ten extra help positions maybe paid for additional let for teaching additional word up to seventy five dollars per clock hour or five hundred and fifty per semester hour they may not exceed a hundred and fifty clock hours or nine semester credit hours per school year. The next apartment is the department of career ad which can be found on page one hundred and twenty nine they currently have forty nine authorized positions they have requested and new classifications found on page one twenty nine line nine they also had a two for one spot during the interim which resulted. In an AC E. program coordinator found on page one twenty nine line nineteen the agency is also requested for two classifications found on page one twenty nine line twenty six and ending on page one thirty. Line six there transferring to positions the shared services which are found on page one hundred and thirty line eleven and twelve the net effect of these changes bring the total down to forty six. The last aversion is the department of higher education which is on page one hundred and thirty one. They currently have fifty four authorized positions during the interim they gained one position and a D. E. policy and special projects director found on line eight the agency is transferring six positions to shared services and will bring. Their total down to forty nine positions the executive recommendation for rights for all of the department of education and its divisions request that's all I have. Any questions from the members. I have a motion for executive recognize second. And second all those in favor say aye. Does no motion carries. Okay in the next session please. Right the next version is the state military department which can be found on page one hundred and thirty two. Administer administration and shared services currently has one position with no changes. On page one hundred and thirty seven you'll find the state military department currently has five hundred and forty six authorized position. They are requesting five new classifications found on page one hundred and thirty three lines nine through thirteen. There are also requesting a great change on line eighteen from afar desk operator from GSO five two A. G. as of six. They're also requesting one title change this is on page one hundred and thirty three line twenty four of the report. Also they're asking for one additional position on page one hundred and thirty four line five the report. However there also requesting to eliminate one position and this is on page one thirty four line eleven innings that correct provides for all of these changes. There are twelve positions that received three classes. Starting on page one hundred and thirty four the line seventeen through page one thirty five line seven. The net effect of these changes will keep the total number of authorized position two five hundred and forty six they also have two pieces of special language they're both continuing the first one is on page one hundred and thirty six which is for their extra help that states no ploy E. of can't JT Robinson or fort Chaffee who is employed as extra help me receive an amount to exceed eighty five percent of the maximum annual salary for comparable position as authorized under Arkansas code during any fiscal year nor shall be and any employee be employed for a period of time to exceed eighteen hundred hours. The next piece of let them of language is on page a hundred and thirty seven and it addresses the line item Max for the position of the adjutant general and deputy adjutant general to be based on a salary grade set out by the US department of defense and shall be compensated in accordance with the department of defense advisory service pay plan exact wrecked provides the agency's request metal I have Mr chair. I have a motion for executive wrecked the second. Second all those in favor say aye. Opposed no motion carries let's continue on one more to mean the department there the next one is the department of Veterans Affairs which is item be twenty. The shared services can be found on page a hundred and thirty eight and has no changes and will stay at one authorized position. The next version is the department of Veterans Affairs disabled veterans service office which is on page one hundred and thirty nine also has no changes in will remain at one authorized position. The next is Arkansas veterans child welfare service which can be found on page two hundred and forty they have to authorize positions. The only change very crossings a title change from the veterans child welfare to director to an adviser a veterans child welfare director. That can be found on page on line eight. The next one is I'd and be twenty C. the department of Veterans Affairs which is on page a hundred and forty one they currently have three hundred and five positions they're requesting four title four title changes found on lines eight through eleven they're also requesting to maintenance technician positions on line sixteen and seventeen and the exact wrecked provides for this request. The agency had one growth pool during the interim for two for one swap which is on line twenty three. And there are seventeen positions that received three classes starting on page a hundred forty two line six their line twenty two with the report the net effect of these changes will increase the number of total authorized positions from three hundred and five to three hundred and seven that is all I have for that Mr chair. I have a motion for executive reckoning second. Second all those in favor say aye opposed no. Motion carries okay members were up against the clock here for it but once once the ALC JVC recesses for lunch we're gonna come back really quickly and so we can finish the department of transportation will be finished and then the the letter for so thank you for your work this morning we are adjourned.