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Committee recommends Health Access Program staffing classification changes to full board
Summary
An ordinance to amend the annual salary ordinance for fiscal year 2006–2007 would adjust Department of Public Health and General Services Agency classifications to increase staffing by 0.48 FTE for the Health Access Program; department staff said no new dollars are required and the change upgrades one position from a 28-18 to a 28-22 classification.
The Government Audit and Oversight Committee recommended to the full Board an ordinance amending the annual salary ordinance for fiscal year 2006–2007 to reflect classification changes and a net increase of 0.48 FTE for the Health Access Program.
The clerk read Item 2 as "an ordinance amending ordinance number 203-06, the annual salary ordinance fiscal year 02/2007, to reflect proposed changes to the Department of Public Health and the general service agency staffing for the health access program, increasing total staffing by 0.48 FTEs." (Clerk)
Dr. Mitch Katz said the change is not a request for additional dollars but corrects classification levels and adds capacity — including support for the Office of Labor Standards to write and enforce rules. He noted an omitted position (a 28-18 upgraded to a 28-22) had been fixed in the legislation.
After a brief public comment period the committee moved the ordinance to the full Board with recommendation and referenced an "amendment of the whole"; the transcript does not record a roll-call vote or the exact language of that amendment.
The ordinance, as described in the hearing, is administrative: it changes classifications and titles to align staff skills and enforcement capacity for the Health Access Program and, according to Katz, requires no additional funding.
