Due to the extended vacancy of both a permanent Veterans Service Officer and Assistant Veterans Service Officer, employee number 95095 has been performing essential duties normally handled by a more senior employee. This employee has performed in an exemplary manner and assumed additional duties and responsibilities that has enabled the Veterans Service Department to continue normal operations without a lapse in service provision or grant funding reporting. Therefore, the Interim Department Head is recommending that the salary regulations be waived in this case to adjust the salary step within the Executive Secretary-Exempt classification salary range and place this employee at step 4, effective April 19, 2023.  
  
The pertinent sections of the Salary Regulations are in Section 3: Salary Administration – Anniversary Dates and Increments of the Salary Regulations:  
- Section 3.1, Designated, states, “Each permanent employee has an anniversary date for pay purposes as herein provided.  
- Section 3.2, Increments Within Range, states, “The salary of each employee, except those with employees already at the maximum salary step of the appropriate salary range, shall be reviewed on the anniversary date as set forth in Section 3.1, to determine whether the salary of the employee shall be advanced to the next higher step in the salary range. Advancement shall be granted only on the affirmative recommendation of the appointing authority, based on satisfactory performance by the employee.  
- Section 3.3, Frequency of Increments, states, “increments within range shall not be granted more frequently than once a year, nor shall more than one step within-range increment be granted at one time.

If this action is not approved, the Department will not be able to compensate the incumbent appropriately for the significant changes that have been made to the incumbent's duties and responsibilities.