FISCAL IMPACT:
None.
BACKGROUND:
The Contra Costa County Merit Board consists of five (5) residents of Contra Costa County who are neither County or District employees nor employees of any organization representing County or District employees. Merit Board members shall be appointed by the Board of Supervisors. They are given the following powers and duties:
1. The merit board shall hear and make final determinations on: appeals from orders and actions of dismissal, suspension, or reduction in rank or compensation unless alternative jurisdiction is conferred by the Board of Supervisors. When it is given such jurisdiction by the Board of Supervisors, it may decide discrimination complains and other matters.
2. The board shall hear and make recommended determinations on other matters, when it is given jurisdiction of such matters by the Board of Supervisors.
3. The merit board as a whole shall monitor the operation of the county personnel management system including the merit system and report its recommendations from time to time to the Board of Supervisors.
Mr. Kobayashi has been an excellent representative on the Merit Board and Supervisor Mitchoff would like to appoint him to an additional term.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
Mr. Kobayashi's current term would expire and the District IV seat would become vacant.
CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:
None.