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Committee advances two contracts: $265,512 for temporary elections staff and $510,000 HR analytics software
Summary
Council agreed to send a $265,512 contract for temporary elections staff and a $510,000 HR analytics SaaS contract to the formal docket; HR said the software aims to centralize personnel data and identify retention and promotion opportunities after a year of high turnover.
The Internal Operations Committee moved two staffing-related contracts to the formal calendar: a $265,512, city-funded contract for temporary staffing at the Department of Elections and a separate three-year, $510,000 software-as-a-service contract to centralize human-resources data and predict turnover.
Chair introduced contract 6007408 for InTech Staffing Solutions to provide temporary election workers for a two-year period and the committee moved the item to formal with a recommendation to approve.
In a longer discussion about contract 6006876, Marcus Holmes in HR described the proposed Zeroed In Technologies platform as a tool to aggregate HR data from multiple systems to make promotion and retention decisions. Holmes said turnover was high last fiscal year—he described roughly "1,992 employees" left during the fiscal year — and estimated that a strategic emphasis on internal promotion could reduce the roughly $44 million cost of replacing employees externally by about $30 million.
Holmes told the committee the software helps identify "flight risk" and matching learning-and-development opportunities (for example, helping seasonal laborers get CDLs to become bus drivers). Members asked for more detail on projected savings and the city’s retention plan. Member Callaway said the data raised questions about how the city retains employees and asked HR to provide a retention strategy; Holmes said HR has employee-resource groups and service pins for long-term staff and welcomed follow-up questions.
Both items were sent to the formal docket with recommendations to approve. The committee indicated it will pursue additional written questions on retention strategy and return with more data before final council action.
Next steps: the items will appear on the formal calendar for vote and HR will respond to council questions about retention plans and return-on-investment estimates for the proposed software.
