TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Christine Brice?o, Director of Human Resources
REPORT BY: Joy Cadiz, Staff Services Manager
SUBJECT: Adoption of a Resolution Amending the Departmental Allocation List for the University of California Cooperative Extension
RECOMMENDATION
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Adopt a Resolution to amend the Departmental Allocation List for the University of California Cooperative Extension, effective December 7, 2024, with no increase to full-time equivalents. (Fiscal Impact: $44,600 Expense; General Fund; Budgeted; Discretionary)
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BACKGROUND
In May of 1968, the County and the Regents of the University of California established the Cooperative Agricultural Extension Service which is now known as the UC Cooperative Extension. These services allow the County to benefit from academic advisors in specialized areas of agriculture and natural resources along with educational programs including 4-H and Master Gardener.
Recently, shifts at the University of California have prompted the UC Cooperative Extension to evaluate its own staffing structure. This evaluation led to a request for multiple positions amounting to a reorganization. Human Resources conducted classification studies to determine whether UC Cooperative Extension department's Staff Services Analyst II, incumbered Volunteer Program Coordinator, and Office Assistant II were properly classified. The classification study revealed that the Staff Services Analyst II and Volunteer Program Coordinator were performing duties within the scope of the Staff Services Analyst I classification and the Office Assistant II was performing duties within the scope of the Administrative Secretary I classification.
To remedy this, and to ensure staff is performing necessary duties, Human Resources recommended, and the UC Cooperative Extension agreed, to reclassify the Staff Services Analyst II and the incumbered Volunteer Program Coordinator position to a Staff Services Analyst I, and the Office Assistant II to an Ad...
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