Item Coversheet

REPORT TO SHASTA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS


BOARD MEETING DATE:  September  11, 2018
CATEGORY:  Consent - Other Departments-21.

SUBJECT:

Salary resolution, Position changes

DEPARTMENT: Information Technology

Supervisorial District No. :  All

DEPARTMENT CONTACT:  Tom Schreiber, Chief Information Officer, 530-225-5273

STAFF REPORT APPROVED BY:  Tom Schreiber, Chief Information Officer

Vote Required?

Simple Majority Vote
General Fund Impact?

No Additional General Fund Impact 

RECOMMENDATION

Adopt a salary resolution, effective September 16, 2018, which deletes 1.0 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) vacant Information Technology (IT) Technician position and adds 1.0 FTE IT Infrastructure Support Engineer I/II position in the IT department budget.

SUMMARY

N/A

DISCUSSION

The tasks required to administer County user accounts, workstations accounts, email and resource (Exchange) accounts over the last several years have grown in complexity with version upgrades to Active Directory, and increased in volume with additional county staff, vendors and systems.  IT time studies show that administration of Active Directory accounts requires a full-time FTE just for these duties.  IT proposes to use an existing IT Tech (ITT) vacancy to augment the Infrastructure Support staff with an additional position to help manage the complexity and the workload demand in this area.


ALTERNATIVES

The Board may choose not to approve the recommendation. IT would then need to figure out a way to meet the demand within current position allocations.


OTHER AGENCY INVOLVEMENT

The Support Services Department – Personnel Unit prepared the salary resolution. This recommendation has been reviewed by the County Administrative Office.

FINANCING

For Fiscal Year (FY) 2018/2019 there is a projected increase in salary costs of $8,800 with deleting an ITT position and replacing it with the Infrastructure Support Engineer I position (compared step F to step F).  IT currently has salary savings to cover the increase in cost for the 2018/19 FY.  In future fiscal years, the cost will fall into the IT rate schedule with all other positions and be recovered through IT’s annual rates.