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Committee advances job-description changes, budget amendment and fee-schedule cleanup to full board
Summary
Supervisors moved a package of administrative items to the full county board, including reclassifying several positions (emergency management director to county employee, new radio-tower technician), a budget amendment reallocating funds to the ambulance fund, fee-schedule cleanup for open-records compliance, and an amendment to the deputy sheriff collective-bargaining agreement adding two holidays and clarifying sick-leave accrual.
The Richland County Executive & Finance Committee reviewed and advanced a set of administrative items to the full county board.
Personnel and job descriptions: Staff presented multiple job-description changes to align with the adopted 2026 budget. Key changes include converting the emergency management director from a contracted role to a county position (ambulance duties removed), changing the ambulance administrative secretary from a contracted role to a county position, creating an HR director position (replacing the HR generalist), adding a radio-tower technician to maintain the county’s approximately $8,000,000 tower investment, and reorganizing child- and youth-services staffing by replacing a supervisor position with a lead worker. The committee moved to send the job descriptions to the full board (motion by Scoot over; second by Frank) and approved advancing the item.
Fee schedule and open records: Staff reported the sheriff’s department’s fee for open-records requests did not comply with open-records law. The committee agreed to remove any fees from the county fee schedule that conflicted with the law and to follow the open-records law compliance guide. The motion to move the fee-schedule amendment to the full board passed.
Collective bargaining: The committee reviewed an amendment to the deputy sheriff’s collective-bargaining agreement to include two additional employee holidays for 2026 and to revise sick-leave accrual from a fractional hourly formula to a set number of hours over 24 pay periods. The committee moved the amendment to the full board.
Budget amendment: Staff explained clarifying budget adjustments requested during budget adoption: reductions to the ambulance payments-from-municipalities line (a decrease of $15,468) offset by reallocations including $5,006.25 transferred from parks and other line-item moves to balance the ambulance fund. The committee approved the budget amendment by voice vote.
Radio tower project timeline: Staff reiterated the tower schedule: antenna/microwave installation in November; configuration Dec. 1–15; testing Dec. 15–30; system functional Dec. 31; cutover in early January; full testing in 2026. The committee approved creating a new radio-tower technician position to support ongoing maintenance and reprogramming work.
Ending: Committee advanced these administrative items to the full county board for final approval; staff will provide required documents and the firms or parties involved will be scheduled to present when needed.
