Personnel committee tables billing-analyst position for Water Department after missing job description

The Personnel Committee of Lawrence City on Feb. 25 voted to send correspondence to the human-resources director and subsequently tabled item 48-26, a proposal to create a billing analyst position for the Water Department, after members said the HR memo lacked a job description and listed the post under a different department.

The committee chair opened the item and said the HR director’s memo did not include the position’s job description, asking members to request the missing documentation. The chair also questioned why the memo placed the position under Administration and Finance instead of the Water Department and asked that the water commissioner and the HR director attend to explain the discrepancy.

Council Vice President Anna Levy said the department director had presented the proposal previously and told the committee a job description existed but it was not attached to the materials. "He already said that he got the job description," Levy said, urging the committee to ask the city attorney to draft ordinance language while staff complete the job description.

Councilor Franklin Miguel moved to send correspondence to the HR director requesting the formal job description for item 48-26; the motion was seconded by Council Vice President Anna Levy and passed on a roll-call vote. After that vote, Miguel moved to table item 48-26 pending receipt of the job description and a departmental explanation; that motion was also seconded by Levy and approved on a roll-call vote. Councilor Rosalie Gonzalez was marked absent for both votes.

The committee recorded no substantive change to the proposal itself; the action directs staff to provide the missing job description and for the ordinance committee to draft any required ordinance language. The item will return for future consideration after the requested materials and departmental presentation are provided.