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To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Anna Roth, Health Services Director
Date:	March 13, 2018

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Costa

County

Subject:

Temporary Hire of County Retiree - Waiver of 180-day Sit-out Period

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 03/13/2018

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Diane Burgis, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

Contact:

Jo-Anne Linares, 925-957-5240

I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: March 13, 2018
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

1. CONSIDER waiving the 180-day sit-out period for Bruce Kenagy, Pre-hospital Care Coordinator in the Health Services Department;
2. FIND that the appointment of Mr. Kenagy is necessary to fill a critically needed position; and

3. APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the hiring of retiree Mr. Kenagy as a temporary employee effective April 1, 2018 through March 31, 2019, as recommended by the EMS Director.

FISCAL IMPACT:

Upon approval, this action has an annual cost of approximately $59,174 which will be funded by Measure H funds.

BACKGROUND:

Mr. Kenagy was hired as a Pre-hospital Care Coordinator in October 1991, and will retire on March 31, 2018. It is necessary to hire Mr. Kenagy as a temporary retiree as the Department will not have his knowledge and expertise in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) to provide the specialized skill and program support required to complete the informational technology project for the EMS Division. Mr. Kenagy is the sole project manager in charge of configuring the build out of EMS System 'Imagetrend Platform' modules designed to significantly improve EMS operations, staff productivity, and stakeholder satisfaction.

The platform modules to be implemented provide the EMS Agency workflow enhancements to substantially improve the timely processing of ambulance provider permitting, ambulance equipment checks, continuing education and training program authorizations and audits. In addition, the platform provides significant improvement to support compliance with required data reporting to the state EMS Authority. Currently, all these tasks are performed manually by staff taking up to several weeks at a high cost to the community in terms of stakeholder time and convenience. The remaining modules to be built will streamline administrative functions associated with these activities and integrate mobile devices to remotely complete tasks.

Mr. Kenagy's 27 years of County EMS experience is extremely critical in the successful completion of the EMS system upgrades.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

If this action is not approved, the EMS Agency will not complete the needed EMS system 'Imagetrend' module enhancements which affect staff productivity, and substantially increasing time on tasks and cost of providing services to private and public ambulance providers and personnel.