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Board recommends updated Franklin Health Department director job description be forwarded to personnel
Summary
The Board of Health reviewed and recommended forwarding an updated Health Department director job description to city personnel, pending minor technical edits. The update reflects Level 3 responsibilities, increased fiscal duties, and emergency preparedness tasks.
Franklin Health Department staff presented an updated job description for the director position and asked the Board of Health to recommend the update to the city's personnel department. The director emphasized she is not leaving and said the update brings the position description in line with current duties and Level 3 expectations.
Board members discussed whether personnel could make minor technical edits without returning the document to the Board and agreed that minor technical changes were acceptable but that any major changes should come back for Board review. The Board voted to recommend forwarding the updated job description to personnel, with the caveat that substantial changes would be returned to the Board for input. The motion passed unanimously as recorded in the meeting.
Why this matters: The job description update clarifies fiscal responsibilities, emergency preparedness duties, and other modernized functions of the director role, aligning the position with the department’s new Level 3 designation.
Supporting details: The packet contained the former job description and the proposed language. Staff said prior position descriptions had fallen out of date after staffing turnover, and the update reflects responsibilities the director now performs, including communicable disease response, fiscal oversight, and emergency preparedness coordination.
Next steps: Staff will forward the recommended job description to the personnel department and ask that minor technical edits not require return to the Board; any major substantive changes would be brought back for Board review.
