Council creates facilities operations supervisor post and approves salary ordinance amendment

County capital investments staff and council liaisons described growth in workload for facilities after the justice center project and urged adding an operations supervisor to manage about 1,500 work orders and daily scheduling.

Max (capital investments) said the new position would allow him to focus on larger capital projects and that hiring had already begun. A liaison said the role was needed now rather than waiting until budget season. Council moved to create the position immediately; salary to be set later during reappropriation discussions.

Council approved reappropriations to move $10,000 from facilities overtime and $10,000 from weights-and-measures into the maintenance staff line to fund the new position for the remainder of the year and confirmed payroll room existed to support the hire. The total annual salary discussed was $65,000, later documented as $65,009.91.

The council opened a public hearing on the salary ordinance amendment for the new facilities position, received no public comment, and voted to approve the amendment setting the salary at $65,009.91.

Nut graf: The council authorized a new operations supervisor for facilities midyear and adjusted internal lines to fund the role through the end of the year; the formal salary ordinance amendment was adopted after a public hearing.

Ending: Staff indicated an offer had been made and that the position will be funded through reappropriated lines for the remainder of the year, with the formal salary ordinance now in effect.