Personnel committee reviews multiple staffing changes, seeks correction to public-health hours

Personnel staff told the Watkins Glen Board of Supervisors personnel committee on March 13, 2025 about several near-term staffing changes across county departments and asked the committee to approve a correction to a staffing pattern that misreported a position's weekly hours.

Staff reported that a senior motor vehicle license clerk will retire in April and that a promotion into that senior role will create a vacancy for a motor vehicle clerk while the county awaits civil-service exam results needed to fill the opening. Social services reported a part-time caseworker resignation and a clerk resignation. In public health, a staff nurse moved into a revised position following a personnel change made last month.

Staff said a staffing-pattern discrepancy in a resolution incorrectly listed a position as 35 hours per week when it should be 37.5 hours. The personnel staff requested approval of the hour change and noted that additional review by finance was necessary. The transcript records that the item was referred to finance and that the committee approved sending the matter to finance (vote recorded as "Aye"). The transcript does not provide an individual vote tally or the name of the motion's mover.

No new hires were announced at the meeting; presenters said the county is awaiting exam results before making final appointments to the motor vehicle clerk vacancy. The committee did not adopt any changes to job classifications at the March 13 meeting; staff will bring required paperwork and the corrected staffing pattern to finance per the committee's direction.