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County HR seeks part-time assistant, higher recruiting spending and payroll shift to finance
Summary
Human resources director proposed moving the payroll coordinator back to finance, adding a 20-hour-per-week HR assistant and increasing recruiting and advertising budgets to address staff shortages and recruitment needs.
Linda Metcette, the county’s human-resources representative at the Oct. 6 meeting, asked commissioners to approve a set of changes aimed at expanding HR capacity and improving recruitment.
Metcette requested shifting the payroll-coordinator position back to the finance department (where HR said it had been previously), adding a part-time HR assistant at 20 hours per week, and increasing several line items. She asked to raise the recruiting and retention line from $8 to $15 (per-unit or per-occasion basis discussed at the meeting), and proposed setting a $25-per-employee allocation for end-of-year gifts at an anticipated 300 employees (about $7,500). She also asked to increase advertising from $20 to $40 and requested an additional $500 in travel funds to support attendance at job fairs.
Metcette told the board that turnover and unplanned openings—25 to 30 openings at the nursing home were cited—have pushed criminal-records checks and recruiting costs higher. She said ZipRecruiter targeted boosts have cost roughly $5,400 and that targeted advertising yields measurable increases in qualified applications; she offered to share statistics on effectiveness.
Commissioners discussed budget presentation and the effect of moving payroll duties to finance on HR staffing; the board did not take a final vote on the HR requests at the session and indicated they would review the numbers in the overall budget package.
