County OKs creation of full‑time positions for Office for the Aging, with funding contingency

The Allegheny County Board of Legislators on Sept. 11 approved creating multiple full‑time positions in the county Office for the Aging and abolishing several part‑time posts, but the board added language making filling those positions contingent on available funding. The measure passed on a roll‑call vote of 12 in favor, 3 absent.

The board approved Resolution Intro. 340‑25 through 342‑25, which together create three full‑time grounds worker positions while abolishing three part‑time labor positions, create one full‑time typist position, and create five full‑time driver positions within the Office for the Aging. The board’s Human Services Committee sponsored the resolutions.

The county attorney confirmed on the record that the resolutions were amended to state “upon the funding” the positions would not be filled if funding is not available; in other words, the positions exist on paper but require a funding source before appointments are made. That amendment was read into the record during debate and retained in the final vote.

Legislators voted by roll call; the clerk announced the tally as “12 yes, 3 absent.” No recorded dissents were entered during the roll call. The transcript does not identify individual hires or budget line items that will fund the positions.

Discussion on the floor included a clarification from a legislator that the groundskeeper positions were amended earlier in the day and confirmation from the county attorney about the funding contingency. No additional amendments or delays were recorded.

The action is an authorization to change position titles and counts and does not itself appropriate new recurring salary dollars; filling the positions will require that funding be available through the county budget or future appropriations.