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Finance director asks for analyst to handle Workday demands as county budgets expand
Summary
Finance Director Dane Ashenbrenner told supervisors Workday and Adaptive increased his office’s responsibilities and requested an additional financial analyst (first‑year cost roughly $124,000) to support budgeting, reporting and training; supervisors discussed space, coordination with IT Workday specialists, and payroll modeling assumptions.
Dane Ashenbrenner, Johnson County finance director, presented his cost‑center budget and asked the board to consider a new financial analyst position to address a growing workload associated with Workday and Adaptive systems.
Ashenbrenner said the office has assumed functions previously in the auditor’s office and is now responsible for a larger accounting and reporting workload. He requested an additional financial analyst with an estimated first‑year cost of about $124,000 in wages (about $129,000 including benefits and workstation costs). He said the position would support day‑to‑day accounting, budgeting, error corrections in Workday, financial reporting, and staff training; he distinguished that IT’s planned Workday technical hires would be more technical 'engineer' roles while a finance analyst would serve as the department’s navigator for reporting and user needs.
Supervisors asked where the new position would sit physically; Ashenbrenner said he expects to share space with existing staff and may reconfigure office furniture. The board discussed overall space constraints as multiple departments expand.
On compensation assumptions, the board generally agreed to model non‑bargaining staff at a 1% COLA, continue compensation‑board recommendations for elected officials, and hold supervisors’ pay at zero change for FY27 while bargaining units remain under negotiation.
Ashenbrenner said his office had already cut non‑personnel operating lines significantly last year and that the analyst position is necessary to maintain timely financial operations if workloads continue to expand. The board did not take a final vote on the position during the work session; staff will include the request in the decision packet and return with related space and fiscal modeling.
