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County proposes new ADA coordinator, full-time public communications role and IT/project-title updates
Summary
Budget staff presented personnel requests including converting a part-time public communications officer to full-time, creating a new full-time ADA coordinator, converting an hourly IT security analyst to salaried status, adding a project coordinator role, and several no-cost HR reclassifications.
County staff told the Commissioners Court they will propose several personnel changes to improve communications, accessibility and project delivery. Nina Payne presented a plan to convert the county's public communications officer from part-time to full-time, saying the office needs to "be more active" in telling Brazos County's story. The requested increase to make the position full time was presented as $72,054 to cover salary, benefits and insurance.
Payne also said the court had directed staff to create a new full-time ADA coordinator position. The ADA coordinator was presented with a total cost of approximately $100,000, with salary and benefits at $97,001 and $3,800 in operating costs for computer, software and phone equipment.
Eric Caldwell, chief information officer, asked that a security analyst who currently works hourly be converted to salaried status because the analyst must function independently and develop incident-response plans. Caldwell said the change is "no funding for position control this year" and that the employee's actual income and benefits would not materially change; the change affects pay classification and overtime eligibility.
Payne also presented a project management request for a new project coordinator position (total cost presented as $119,325) and a no-cost title change from assistant project manager to project manager. Jennifer Salazar, human resources director, presented a no-cost reclassification package intended to move HR from transactional roles to more strategic, specialized titles now that the county has Oracle tools to support analytics and automation. Salazar said the reclassifications involve existing staff and do not add positions or request funding.
