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County HR reports low applicant volumes, prepares for clinic staffing and a September grand opening
Summary
The county's HR director reported second‑quarter activity including biometric screening setup, benefits work, a salary survey and unusually low applicant numbers; staff set a tentative grand‑opening date for the new clinic in late September and said the clinic partner will handle prescriptions and patient operations after turnover.
The county's employee services director delivered the second‑quarter report, detailing work to set up biometric screenings, post‑offer testing and drug screening, plus efforts to ready benefits and tax‑exempt status for the clinic partner.
"At this point, we are working with the marketing team, to roll that out to employees. But ... I had all of the signage changed to grand opening in September 25," the director said, describing outreach and a tentative public event date.
The HR director said the department completed a salary survey of peer counties and cities and that workers' compensation renewals and a safety survey produced no formal recommendations. She told commissioners the county's applicant pool had shrunk: "We also, sheriff's department has started to participate in some where they're going to meet with different high schools, different college..." and later, "We also, Recruitment, we are down. 1 74 is about the lowest number I've ever received in applications." The director said as of the meeting there were 18 open positions countywide, up from 15 in the earlier report.
Why it matters: low applicant volume and multiple open positions affect county service delivery and hiring timelines; HR is pursuing outreach tactics and a salary‑survey review to inform retention and recruitment strategies.
The director said the clinic partner (referenced as "Cary TC" or "to care" in staff remarks) will need tax‑exempt status to order prescriptions and that the county has held weekly or biweekly coordination meetings with the partner throughout the quarter. The director also said one staff member had been brought on to manage Family and Medical Leave Act processes and that the county processed 13 new hires in the quarter.
Commissioners praised the HR team's work and asked staff to continue recruitment outreach at job fairs and to consider paid advertising if free methods fall short. The director said she would present the salary‑survey results to the commission at a future meeting.
