Carbon County considers new central administrative division and payroll separation, with pay requests and hiring authorizations ahead of August budget meeting

Speaker 4, an administrative official, told the Carbon County commissioners the county is proposing a new central administrative division (a 400-series org code) to separate finance, central administration and human resources from the commissioners’ object code. The proposal, Speaker 4 said, would consolidate central supplies, shared telephone and Internet costs, and IT maintenance while freeing HR to focus on full-cycle onboarding and employee management.

The change would include a payroll administrator position moved under finance rather than HR and the development of a formal hiring and onboarding matrix. ‘‘We are looking at separating payroll services out of HR,’’ Speaker 4 said, arguing the payroll work ‘‘more logically sits with finance’’ and that the change would allow the HR lead to concentrate on retention and full-cycle human-resources duties.

Speaker 7, an unidentified…