On January 20, the Commissioners Court directed Jay Schade to consolidate and integrate within ITS the functions of 911 Addressing, the mail courier, the switchboard and the warehouse/Records Management. At that time Jay discussed with the court his plan for accomplishing that consolidation and stated he would be back in a couple of weeks with the formal plan for those reclassifications.
In order to efficiently integrate the aforementioned functions within ITS, as well as save County funds where possible, the positions on the attached spreadsheet should be reclassified. This will allow GIS and 911 Addressing to share more of the responsibilities of the two entities and will allow the County to save over $14,000 ($11,823 in salaries plus the related FICA and retirement) per year. It will also "equalize" the analyst positions within GIS/911 Addressing and allow a Sr Analyst to be the team lead in lieu of having a 911 Addressing Manager, creating the bulk of the savings. Finally, it will allow IT to utilize a currently open position (Telecomm Assistant) to be used as an Office Specialist to help with the increased administrative responsibilities, and give backup and support to the mail courier, the switchboard operator and the warehouse foreman.
Recently the functions of the Telecomm Assistant were incorporated into the responsibilities of the Network Specialist positions. By doing this, we have equipped technicians to be able to troubleshoot all equipment, including phones, and increased the efficiency of handling calls for both PCs and telephones by giving us more individuals who can handle those types of calls as well. That has been working well for a few months and we now feel comfortable moving that position to accomodate the consolidation process.
Overall, these moves will give additional responsibilities to all of the positions that we are asking to reclassify, while at the same time making the overall operations more efficient and still realizing a modest savings for the County. |