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C. 21

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Monica Nino, County Administrator
Date:	May 23, 2023

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Costa

County

Subject:

Introduce Ordinance No. 2023-12 to Exempt classifications within the County Administrator's Office from the Merit System

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 05/23/2023

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
Ken Carlson, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

Contact:

Timothy M. Ewell, (925) 655-2043

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: May 23, 2023
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BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

INTRODUCE Ordinance No. 2023-12 amending the County Ordinance Code to exempt from the merit system the new classifications of Management Analyst-Exempt, Senior Management Analyst-Exempt, Deputy County Administrator-Exempt and Senior Deputy County Administrator-Exempt, with the appointing authority as the County Administrator, WAIVE READING and FIX June 12, 2023, for adoption.

FISCAL IMPACT:

There is no cost associated with this action.

BACKGROUND:

The County Administrator's Office has been conducting a comprehensive review and update of it's job classifications. This includes modernizing job descriptions and minimum qualifications to reflect current trends in the public sector labor market and ensure a clear career advancement pathway for staff within the office. This process has not included any proposed salary reallocations - only streamlining of minimum qualifications and updates to typical tasks related to the positions within the office.

BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)

As part of this process, the County Administrator's Office proposes to exempt classifications within the office from the merit system, on a prospective basis, through attrition and hiring of new staff. Positions within County Executive or City Manager offices are commonly "at-will" positions throughout the state. Phasing this change in prospectively, through attrition, ensures that employees in current merit-system positions continue to be afforded merit-system status until that position is vacated at which time the vacant position will be converted to exempt. Prior to COVID-19, the County Counsel's office began a similar approach to transitioning merit-system classifications to exempt status through attrition, which remains ongoing.

To implement this transition it is necessary to create separate job classifications for the proposed exempt classifications within the office at the same compensation level as the merit system classification. The classifications of Management Analyst-Exempt, Senior Management Analyst-Exempt, Deputy County Administrator-Exempt and Senior Deputy County Administrator-Exempt are scheduled to be established as part of the budget adoption process and it is necessary to list a separate action to introduce the ordinance, which would ultimately exempt these classifications from the merit system in the County Ordinance Code.

Today's action introduces the ordinance to exempt these newly established classifications from the merit-system, waives reading, and fixes June 12, 2023 for adoption. Once adopted the ordinance must be published and will not take effect for a period of 30 days.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

The ordinance will not be formally introduced for adoption on June 12, 2023.

CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:

No impact.