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Franklin HR asks for staff upgrades and expanded leadership training; flags benefits succession in FY28
Summary
Human Resources requested funding for leadership development, an HR generalist, and an upgraded employee-relations supervisor for FY26, and flagged a FY28 need for a benefits manager should long-tenured staff retire. The department highlighted drops in turnover and increases in applicants as measures of progress.
Kevin Townsville, director of human resources, presented the HR department’s FY26 budget and program-enhancement requests on Feb. 6, asking the committee to fund leadership and management development, one HR generalist, and an upgrade of the employee-relations specialist to a supervisory role. He said the department is also flagging a future FY28 request for a benefits manager to address potential retirements among long-tenured staff.
Townsville described a multi-part enhancement request. The leadership and management development initiative includes both in-house and external training (figures cited during the meeting: in-house and contracted training costs; specific dollar totals were shown on…
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