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Public Employee Labor Relations Board to assume administrative role for Personnel Appeals Board and RTK; budget adjustments requested
Summary
PELRB testified about taking administrative responsibility for the Personnel Appeals Board and the Right-to-Know Ombudsman under HB2; PELRB requested modest DOIT and operations funding for onboarding and IT support and described space and case-management needs.
Doug Ingersoll, executive director and counsel of the Public Employee Labor Relations Board (PELRB), described the board’s current caseload and the HB2 provision assigning PELRB administrative responsibility for the Personnel Appeals Board (PAB) and the Right-to-Know Ombudsman (RTK).
Ingersoll said PELRB adjudicates public-sector collective bargaining disputes, holds evidentiary hearings, and manages elections and unit determinations for municipal, school-district and state employees. He said the number of bargaining units and related filings is dynamic and that the board holds hearings comparable to trial courts in which parties commonly have counsel.
HB2, Ingersoll said, calls for the PELRB to take on administrative support for PAB and RTK. He told the committee that DOIT has recommended additional class-27 (IT/shared services) funding to onboard seven administrative staff and to integrate case-management systems; the PELRB provided an estimated DOIT support request of roughly $44,000 for FY26 and $32,000 for FY27 to cover that onboarding and onboarding-related technology costs.
Ingersoll also requested modest increases in class-30 equipment and class-39 telecom/service costs that would support additional employees and broader administrative responsibilities. He noted office-space constraints and said PELRB historically has operated off-site to avoid conflicts associated with interacting with parties in public-sector disputes; he also suggested a possible shared arrangement that would place PAB and RTK staff in nearby state-managed space while PELRB retains independent hearing-room arrangements.
PELRB representatives asked the committee to consider the incremental funding request in the Senate phase to ensure a smooth administrative transition if the HB2 language is enacted. The committee did not take a vote during the presentation and asked staff to coordinate exact DOIT cost estimates and space options.
