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Committee reviews adding breastfeeding peer counselor job class, seeks HHS board support before final conversion
Summary
A request from public health staff asked the Committee on Administration to add a breastfeeding peer counselor job classification and convert an existing limited-term position to regular part-time status at grade E ($18.90–$24.79/hr); committee discussion included contingency that the Health and Human Services Board must also support the change.
Dunn County public-health staff asked the Committee on Administration to add a breastfeeding peer counselor job title to the county's inventory of job classifications and to convert an existing limited-term position to regular part-time status, with placement on grade E of the county pay schedule.
A staff presenter explained the legal basis for the committee's review: "our personal code ordinance requires, that the committee on administration review proposals for changes to our inventory of job classifications," and said the current employee has held the limited-term role for two years and that the position is required by a grant-funded breastfeeding peer-counseling program administered through WIC.
Staff recommended placement at grade E of the 2025 wage schedule (hourly range cited in the packet: $18.90 to $24.79). The presenter said that if grant funding ends the position would be eliminated and acknowledged that the Health and Human Services Board's meeting later that day would need to endorse the change; the request to the committee was expressly made "so long as there's support at the Health and Human Services Board meeting later today."
Committee members asked practical questions about grant coverage of the hour range and about program utilization. The presenter said they did not have program-use counts available at the meeting but offered to obtain them from the nutrition program manager, Grace Poliak.
A motion to act on the request was made during the meeting; the transcript does not record a formal roll-call or final approval vote in the Committee on Administration minutes excerpt provided. Staff characterized the request as contingent on Health and Human Services Board support and said the position would revert to elimination if grant funding ended.
