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Rota finance director warns staff burnout, seeks more positions and operating funds
Summary
Rota Department of Finance director told the House Ways and Means delegation at a budget hearing that personnel are underpaid, understaffed and lack operating funds and vehicles, urging approval of additional FTEs, training and repairs to maintain revenue enforcement and customs functions.
Avery Hoco Calvo, resident director of the Department of Finance for Rota, told the House Ways and Means committee on June 5 that her office is understaffed, underfunded and losing trained inspectors because salaries and operating support have not kept pace with workload.
"I am going to run my staff into the ground. They are nearing burnout," Calvo said, describing long-running gaps in within-grade increases and an operating budget that until recently had been zero. She said Treasury, revenue and customs officers are doing work beyond their job classifications and that promotion and pay paperwork has been delayed for years.
Calvo outlined a personnel-heavy budget request that seeks promotionary adjustments, new full-time equivalents for revenue enforcement and inspection, and money for vehicle repairs or replacements. She said…
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