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Commission adopts temporary staffing classification to retain seven permit technicians
Summary
Council approved a personnel-rule change allowing up to 12-month limited-duration benefited positions to retain seven FEMA-provided permit technicians; estimated cost for six months was presented at $264,652.
The Saint Pete Beach City Commission on March 25 adopted Resolution 2025-08 to create a new personnel category—limited-duration temporary employee—to retain seven permit technicians who have been working under a federal disaster contract.
Jill Sasson, the city’s human-resources director, told the commission the federal emergency deployment that supplied the technicians is ending April 11 and staff wants to retain the trained employees to avoid interrupting permit-processing capacity. “We’re requesting a motion to authorize the city manager to engage in a limited duration…
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