The Delaware County Council approved a package of job descriptions and a transfer plan intended to convert previously budgeted contractual services for IT into direct county employment lines.

Finance and IT committee members told the council that Tim Fluka's contract ended at the end of the year and several former contractors will return in mixed arrangements: two as contracted vendors and two as direct county employees (a help-desk support role and an IT supervisor/coordinator). Council voted to create permanent job lines for those roles and to post two open positions: a help-desk support position and a network administrator position. Staff said those changes are covered within the existing budgeted amounts but that a number of printed documents show inconsistent base salaries and fund-line numbers.

Auditor staff and committee members told the council the discrepancy can be fixed administratively: PI (payroll/information) forms will be corrected and the council will reconcile numbers at its January meeting. Tanya Dunsmore, Delaware County auditor chief deputy, recommended not flipping names of the positions across funds and said the total annual budget remains the same even if line coding changes are needed to reflect where employees are stationed.

Council members raised questions about the GIS specialist job description, noting one page listed 29 scheduled hours while the working-conditions section allowed exceeding 40 hours; staff agreed to correct the front-page hours to 40 prior to final payroll processing. The council approved the job descriptions as amended by roll call.

The transfer request presented to the council moved budget authority from contractual-services lines into newly created personnel lines in county general funds to allow a mix of county employment and contract arrangements. Staff said the transfers will not increase total budgeted spending and that a follow-up transfer in January will align accounting entries precisely.