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County planning director requests permission to advertise associate planner position
Summary
Planning director Sabrina asked commissioners to authorize advertising for an associate planner role and requested an annual salary increase of $10,000 for that position; commissioners agreed to allow advertising and to revisit budget adjustments when a candidate is identified.
Planning director Sabrina told the commission the department has reorganized since its planning technician left and now needs an "associate planner" rather than a technician. She asked for authorization to advertise the associate planner position and requested an annual pay increase of $10,000 for that role; she said, because the fiscal year is half complete, the request for the remainder of the year would be $5,000.
Commissioners discussed hiring flexibility and agreed it would be prudent to allow the department to consider either a planning technician (if a strong candidate emerges) or to hire directly into the associate planner position. The commission instructed staff to proceed with advertising and to adjust the budget once a candidate is identified.
Transcript figures for benefit estimates are unclear in places; benefit cost numbers cited by the director in the meeting were garbled and are therefore not restated here.
