Office of the City Manager*

Seaside is commended for its fully compliant AB 1825 written policy. The City agrees with this finding.

The city has a comprehensive AB 1825 training program that allows employees to select their preferred training method. The City agrees with this finding.

The city does not fully coordinate course completion between its three AB 1825 training modalities (classroom, online, and webinar) and does not limit employee training, which has resulted in some supervisory employees training more than required and other training late or not at all. The City partially disagrees with this finding. Given the large quantity of mandated training courses staff are required to attend over the course of a year, and the City's commitment to on-going employee development, it is paramount that we offer a variety of means to attend training so employees and supervisors can attend training at their convenience. We also offer different modalities in order for staff to select the type of training that suits their learning style. Although we agree that offering training through different vendors that provide online, webinars, and in person training has created an administrative challenge to track, as of the date of the Grand Jury's report, all supervisory staff were up to date on the mandated harassment training. In some cases, employees will choose to take a course more frequently than required, which is acceptable.

Seaside's onboarding procedures are ineffective at ensuring new and promoted supervisory employees complete AB 1825 training within six months. The City partially agrees with this finding. Attending mandated training is the responsibility of the individual. The City's onboarding procedures enroll new supervisors in harassment training through TargetSolutions. Those new employees, and their supervisors, receive frequent reminders to attend the training and notice when the training is overdue. The breakdown occurs when individuals do not meet the required deadline and their supervisor fails to hold them accountable.

The city lacks an efficient recordkeeping system for AB 1825 training compliance, and some training records for supervisory employees are archived off-site and are not readily accessible. The City agrees with this finding. Offering training through several venues is necessary in order to provide staff the flexibility of attending training, not only at their convenience, but in the fashion that provides them with the best learning environment, but it does make the tracking more complex. Additionally, yes, we send non-active files to storage and recovery of those files does take some time.