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HomeMy WebLinkAbout145-17 RESOLUTION0� FAYF rrE' A 't w m r.w w aR�n�Sns 113 West Mountain Street Fayetteville, AR 72701 (479) 575-8323 Resolution: 145-17 File Number: 2017-0329 POSITION CONTROL INCREASE: A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE ADDITION OF 1.0 FULL TIME EQUIVALENT POSITION TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO PROVIDE A SECOND CRIME SCENE TECHNICIAN, 2.0 FULL TIME EQUIVALENT POSITIONS TO THE RECYCLING & TRASH COLLECTION DIVISION TO PROVIDE TWO ROUTE DRIVERS, AND A TEMPORARY PART TIME POSITION IN THE FINANCE & INTERNAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT, AND TO APPROVE A BUDGET ADJUSTMENT BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS: Section 1: That the City Council of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas hereby authorizes the addition of 1.0 full time equivalent position to the Police Department to add a crime scene technician, 2.0 full time equivalent positions to the Recycling & Trash Collection Division to provide two route drivers, and a temporary part time position to the Finance & Internal Services Department to assist with the Payroll and Pension Accounting Manager's transition to retirement. Section 2: That the City Council of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas hereby approves a budget adjustment, a copy of which is attached to this Resolution. PASSED and APPROVED on 7/18/2017 Page 1 Attest: Sondra E. Smith, City Clerk I#11lfJ T'45'''�i � � •,��� Y QF • rC��R r FAYETTEVILLE; r r� -,lee GTMA fCity of Fayetteville, Arkansas 113 West Mountain Street Fayetteville, AR 72701 (479) 575-8323 Text File File Number: 2017-0329 Agenda Date: 7/18/2017 Version: 1 Status: Passed In Control: City Council Meeting File Type: Resolution Agenda Number: C. 4 POSITION CONTROL INCREASE: A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE ADDITION OF 1.0 FULL TIME EQUIVALENT POSITION TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO PROVIDE A SECOND CRIME SCENE TECHNICIAN, 2.0 FULL TIME EQUIVALENT POSITIONS TO THE RECYCLING & TRASH COLLECTION DIVISION TO PROVIDE TWO ROUTE DRIVERS, AND A TEMPORARY PART TIME POSITION IN THE FINANCE & INTERNAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT, AND TO APPROVE A BUDGET ADJUSTMENT BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS: Section 1: That the City Council of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas hereby authorizes the addition of 1.0 full time equivalent position to the Police Department to add a crime scene technician, 2.0 full time equivalent positions to the Recycling & Trash Collection Division to provide two route drivers, and a temporary part time position to the Finance & Internal Services Department to assist with the Payroll and Pension Accounting Manager's transition to retirement. Section 2: That the City Council of the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas hereby approves a budget adjustment, a copy of which is attached to this Resolution. City of Fayetteville, Arkansas Page 1 Printed on 7/19/2017 Paul Becker Submitted By City of Fayetteville Staff Review Form 2017-0329 Legistar File ID 7/18/2017 City Council Meeting Date - Agenda Item Only N/A for Non -Agenda Item 6/29/2017 Chief Financial Officer/ Finance & Internal Services Department Submitted Date Division / Department Action Recommendation: Approval of request to increase the Police Department's staffing count in General Fund by 1.00 FTE for a Crime Scene Technician, increase Recycling & Trash Collection Division's staffing count by 2.00 FTE's for two Route Drivers in the the Recycling & Trash Collection Fund. In addition a request for the approval of a temporary part-time position in the Finance & Internal Services Department to help with the transition of the retirement of the Payroll Manager which is funded in General Fund. Approval of a budget adjustment. 1010.131.1310-5100.00 Account Number Project Number Budgeted Item? Yes Does item have a cost? NA Budget Adjustment Attached? Yes Previous Ordinance or Resolution # Original Contract Number: Comments: Budget Impact: Current Budget Funds Obligated Current Balance Item Cost Budget Adjustment Remaining Budget General Fund Project Title $ 746,236.00 $ 384,487.00 361,749.001 $ 38,000.00 $ 399,749.00 V20740710 Approval Date: CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE ARKANSAS MEETING OF JULY 18TH, 2017 TO: Mayor and City Council CITY COUNCIL MEMO FROM: Paul Becker, Finance and Internal Services Director DATE: June 16, 2017 SUBJECT: Request to increase position control RECOMMENDATION: Approval of a temporary position in the Finance and Internal Services Department to help with the transition when the Payroll and Pension Accounting Manager retires at year end and to help with technology and special projects through 2018. BACKGROUND: The Payroll and Pension Accounting Manager will be retiring at the end of 2017. Her replacement will need time and assistance to learn the new payroll system implemented by the City in September 2016, as well as other complex accounting duties required in this position. DISCUSSION: I am requesting one additional temporary position for the Finance and Internal Services _- Department. The implementation of the new ERP system created many modifications to internal processes, especially in the payroll processing area. In addition, the Accounting Manager over payroll and pension is retiring at the end of the year. Processing payroll bi-weekly is a complicated technological process for which our current Payroll Manager has been trained and has become proficient in the process. The department needs to have the Payroll Manager on board to train her replacement in 2017, to ensure a successful transition with no disruption to payroll production and reporting requirements. am requesting this temporary position to be funded through 2018. The position would be full time for the remainder of 2017 and part time (maximum 50%) for 2018. The responsibilities of this position would encompass not only payroll procedures and accounting processes but would also include problem resolution and special projects as assigned by the Directors in Accounting, Budgeting and Utility Financial Services. M Mailing Address: 113 W. Mountain Street www.fayetteville-ar.gov Fayetteville, AR 72701 BUDGET/STAFF IMPACT: This position would primarily be funded in savings in the current budget relating to a currently unfilled vacancy in the Budget Division with the balance coming from reserves. A budget adjustment which would accomplish that is attached for your consideration. Attachments: Staff Review form City Council Memo Budget Adjustment ,. CITY OF WARKAFAYETTEVI LLE NSAS W MEETING OF JULY 18, 2017 TO: Mayor and City Council FROM: Greg Tabor, Chief of Police DATE: May 31, 2017 SUBJECT: Police Department Crime Scene Technicians CITY COUNCIL MEMO RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends converting the Police Department's one Senior Crime Scene Technician (1 FTE) to two Crime Scene Technicians (2 FTEs) BACKGROUND: The Police Department has employed a Crime Scene Technician since March 5, 2001.- Several years later, this position was upgraded to a Senior Crime Scene Technician. The Senior Crime Scene Technician position was recently vacated by an employee who was at the top of the position's pay range. DISCUSSION: The Crime Scene Technician responds to all major crime scenes, and assists detectives with searching, photographing, sketching, and the collection and transportation of evidence. Crime Scene Technicians also package and submit evidence to the Arkansas State Crime Lab, and monitor databases for results of forensic testing. Crime Scene Technicians are required to write detailed reports, and testify in court cases where evidence was collected and analyzed. The Crime Scene Technician trains detectives and patrol officers on evidence recovery procedures. The Crime Scene Technician's responsibilities help relieve detectives of the duties of crime scene processing. This allows detectives more time to concentrate on other important, time - sensitive tasks, such as assisting and interviewing crime victims and witnesses, neighborhood canvasing, and tracking down suspects. The Crime Scene Technician is on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This can be stressful, hectic and tiresome for a single individual. It can interfere with any sort of planning for the scheduling of training, or any personal time off. When the Crime Scene Technician is sick, on vacation, training, or otherwise unavailable, an additional detective must be assigned to the case to process the scene and handle all the evidence. Mailing Address: 113 W. Mountain Street www.fayetteville-ar.gov Fayetteville, AR 72701 Two Crime Scene Technicians will allow the flexibility of assigning them to two separate scenes or investigations simultaneously. The addition of a second Crime Scene Technician would allow the on-call schedule to be split between both employees, reducing the chances a detective will be called out to cover the Crime Scene Technician's duties. This will also reduce the stress of 24/7 on-call status, and allow more flexibility for personal time off for both employees. I believe these reasons benefit both the department and the wellness of the employees. BUDGET/STAFF IMPACT: For the remainder of 2017, a budget savings of approximately of $9,154 will be recognized. The new employees will not be eligible for retirement, and will have a much lower starting salary than that of the previous employee. There will be additional salary savings during the vacancy of the previous employee. Future costs of the new employees will be addressed during the 2018 budgeting process. Attachments: None CITY OF 1 T Tay y . ARKANSAS TO: Lioneld Jordan, Mayor THRU: Terry Gulley, Transportation Director FROM: Jeff Coles, Recycling and Trash Collection Director DATE: June 22, 2017 STAFF MEMO SUBJECT: Recycling and Trash Collections request regarding two additional Full Time Employee to keep up with recycling growth in the City. RECOMMENDATION: Recycle and trash Collections recommends two additional Full Time Employees (FTE) for the curb sort recycling program to keep up with the increase of current and future growth within the City. BACKGROUND: The City's Recycling Curbside program utilizes one driver and one truck to pick. up recyclables curbside. The average time per stop in the latest evaluation of program services was 1 minute per stop. Each driver is expected to collect an average of 350 homes per day, The drivers operate on a 10 hour work day and in addition to collecting and sorting recyclables are expected to perform pre and post CDL inspections on their trucks, unloading of materials upon returning to the recycling center, fueling and washing the vehicle each day during the 10 hour period. DISCUSSION: The growth in the City has had many impacts on Recycling and Trash Collection services. In regards to recycling, in 2012 our average city wide weekly recycling bin pickup for the 10 residential recycling routes was 13,700 bins. This represents roughly a 56% participation rate. In 2016 the count for 10 residential recycling routes was a city wide average of 16,000 per week. That represents an increase of 2,300 additional recycling bins placed out for service at residential homes weekly for pickup since 2012. That increase does not include the small business curbside recycling that was added to our service line in 2008. In 2012, there were 192 businesses signed up for the recycling service. As of today we are servicing 332 businesses for an increase of 140 businesses or a 42% increase to our curb sort program. The Recycling and Trash Collection Division has delivered over 9,000 bins to businesses and residential homes in the last 3 years alone. These bins are inclusive of all bin handouts for replacements, extra bins and businesses and residential homes. It is quite possible that not all of these bins are placed at the curb each week but still represent a cost to the program. Mailing Address: 113 W. Mountain Street www.fayetteville-ar.gov Fayetteville, AR 72701 We have not added an additional residential recycling route to our curb sort program since 2006. The route drivers have absorbed the growth up to this point, putting an additional strain on our work force which causes higher turnover in this field. In fact, over the last 10 years we have had an average of 50% turnover for the recycling driver position. Fatigue leads to injuries in addition to turnover. Staff anticipates by adding two FTE's to accommodate the growth experienced within the system, the Division will be better equipped to service the recycling program. Below is a table produced from our G.I.S. Department that illustrates the growth in the City in terms of residential units. As shown below since 2013, the City has added 2093 homes and duplexes that directly affect the curbside recycling program. In city Limits 4 i Vs� rt y S as Residential Addresses (as of 20170602) Year 2017 to date through May Single Family Duplex Multi- Family Mobile Group Housing 14 121 100 11 10 22 18 New Apartments 637 220 116 300 29 1 9 1067 428 612 22 1 4 1719 -319 52 1348 1 349 204 31 114 Below is a table produced from the Building Safety Division that shows the number of permits that were issued for construction of new development. These numbers help to show what could be expected to be placed into service once the construction is complete. BUDGET/STAFF IMPACT: None 2015 2016 2017 to date through May New Single -Family Detached 357 484 225 New Single Family Attached 14 0 5 New Two Family (Duplexes) 4 22 18 New Apartments 5 47 81 New Commercial 29 37 9 BUDGET/STAFF IMPACT: None City of Fayetteville, Arkansas - Budget Adjustment Form (Legistar) Budget Year Division Adjustment Number /Org2 ACCOUNTING &AUDIT (131) 2017 Requestor: Kevin Springer BUDGET ADJUSTMENT DESCRIPTION / JUSTIFICATION: $38,000 is requested in the Accounting & Audit division for the addition of a part-time FTE to be used for the transition of duties related to payroll. The budget is coming from the Budget & Information Management division due to staff turnover of a budget analyst position. RESOLUTION/ORDINANCE COUNCIL DATE: 7/18/2017 LEGISTAR FILE ID#: 2017-0329 K "&Vll Spr 6/28/2017 3:21 PM Budget Director TYPE: DESCRIPTION: GLDATE: POSTED: Date TOTAL - _ v.20170606 Increase / (Decrease) Project.Subtt Account Number Expense Revenue Project Sub AT Account Name 1010.131.1310-5100.00 30,300 EX Salaries/Wages - FT, Regular 1010.131.1310-5108.00 3,700 EX Emp Insurance - Health 1010.131.1310-5109.06 4,000 EX Pension - Retirement Savings 1010.133.1330-5100.00 (30,000) 1010.133.1330-5108.00 -(5,000) 1010.133.1330-5109.06 (3,000) EX Salaries/Wages - FT, Regular EX Emp Insurance - Health EX Pension - Retirement Savings C:\Users\losmith\AppData\Roaming\L5\Temp\aI7dbIOa-4091-4361-92eb-9efea0da6dc0 1 of 1