Monterey County Grand Jury
• 2019-2020
Human Resources Building and Maintaining a Productive Workforce,
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Findings and Recommendations 6 findings
F1
As evidenced by interviews, the current level of vacant health care positions has a direct and negative impact on the County by reducing the County’s ability to deliver community disease control and prevention outreach, and to provide adequate Public Health case management activities. This also creates an undue burden on the remaining staff that leads to job burnout.
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R1
The “Compensation Philosophy” should be updated to reflect appropriate and comparable counties and cities for each job classification. This update should be completed in six months. 10
F2
Critical positions such as public health nurse practitioners, psychiatric social workers, environmental health specialists, and physicians are not being filled in a timely manner. 9
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R2
County Human Resources should engage an experienced compensation consultant to assist in the creation of a transparent and global compensation and classification program. This should be completed in three months.
F3
Human Resources staffing levels in some Departments are insufficient to maintain optimum staffing levels.
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R3
Budgeted positions should be posted in a timely manner giving priority to posting positions that affect the health and safety of County residents. This posting should occur
F4
Current County personnel vacancy levels and rates of hire confirm that recruitment has not been occurring at an optimal level in either the centralized or the decentralized departments.
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R4
Open positions should be proactively advertised of an employment vacancy or upon notice of retirement, transfer, or resignation to avoid reduction of essential public services, departmental job burnout, and overtime or temporary hiring expense.
F5
The compensation plan (currently called “Compensation Philosophy”) in use by Monterey County is outdated; the list of public agencies used for “market survey” comparison was last updated in 1989, more than 30 years ago.
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R5
Each budget cycle should include specific opportunities for department heads to identify and justify specific referral and hiring bonuses for their hard-to-fill positions. This process should begin of the date of this report.
F6
As discussed in interviews, on-line learning systems may provide critical on- demand training, but they cannot replace the human interaction that occurs in person-to-person training, which supports job satisfaction.
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R6
In order to ensure an adequate staffing level for essential County public health workers, the County should begin a process to identify supplemental funding sources to mitigate un-forecast budget shortfalls in federal and state grants, aid, or other direct program funding. This analysis should be completed in 30 days.
Additional Recommendations 2
These recommendations are not explicitly linked to specific findings.
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R7The Learning and Organizational Development Division of the Human Resource Department should be restored to include classroom training. This should be completed
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R8The County should conduct a review to determine the level of Human Resources staffing, both in the departments and in the Human Resources Department, that can provide support levels sufficient to achieve the 10% 11 vacancy rate goal as assumed with the County budget. This review is to be completed REQUESTED RESPONSES Pursuant to Penal Code sections 933 and 933.05, the Civil Grand Jury requests responses to the Findings and Recommendations from the following governing body : • Monterey County Board of Supervisors
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