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Show , By ROSELYN KIRK espite complaints that i help is needed to set up -Jdelines for a proposed lis County merit system ' '(county employees, county 'imissioners said the tar-date tar-date for the implementa- J of a county merit system Cytill set for January 1, 1978. LoMMISSIONERS also rifeed that a firm plan for ' ary increases must be ipleted prior to October 1 ?n department heads must mit their budgets, i ounty commissioners met h 22 department heads on f ssday to discuss depart-ntal depart-ntal problems, but most J )artment heads appeared ' be waiting for a report I" m Earl King who serves I time as personnel direc- DEPARTMENT heads had met in a similar meeting last month and voted unanimously to adopt a merit system. At that time county commissioners commis-sioners agreed that some type of merit system was necessary, neces-sary, but did not take official action on the matter. They instructed Mr. King to set the wheels in motion for implementing the system. Tuesday Mr. King said that progress had been slow in setting up a salary schedule, since not all department heads had responded to a request from the personnel office to obtain comparative salary information from other counties. WHEN THE information is obtained and correlated, he said it would serve as a measuring device for setting up a salary schedule for Davis County employees. Mr. King cited several areas of progress, but admitted that the main hangup in getting the necessary work accomplished ac-complished to implement the merit system was the lack of manpower in the personnel office. Mr. King also serves as Resource Development director. direc-tor. He is aided in his position as County Personnel Director by Richard Nelson, who also is director of Social Services. DURING THE departmen- tal heads' meeting. Sheriff William "Dub" Lawrence suggested the implementation implementa-tion of a merit system be established es-tablished as a priority jtem by the county commission)"Why can't we have a full-time effort?' ef-fort?' he said. He said the program had been stalled for CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 avDS CLIecOG Syo. CONTINUED FROM FRONT over a year. This suggestion was seconded by County Attorney Milton Hess. Mr. Hess suggested sug-gested that commissioners employ someone to help Mr. King on a temporary six month basis in order to put together the proposed merit plan. Commissioner Glen .Flint suggested, "The county commission could get in and help," but did not say whether the commission would take action on hiring temporary help to work through the proposed merit system. "We'll get together with Earl and work it out, Commissioner Flint said. MR. KING asked department depart-ment heads to "be patient since it will take a certain amount of time." He said that during the last month the personnel department has been attempting to develop two page job descriptions and get them back to the depart ments. County department heads had previously turned in job descriptions for employees in their offices, but most said these had never been returned. re-turned. Mr. King said the job descriptions, which in most cases were 14 pages long, were too cumbersome and he was hopeful they could be condensed to two pages. ROD WALKER, county clerk, urged that some firm action be taken before the budgetrushi lecisiononZ coun'y employ' merit raise, or 'o a Percent submit a sep, by departmem t, said. The a the county sys,J employees oi,,; mental basis b, Thls "'II reo,' employee's S1, included withi fc, budgets. Depart gets will November 1, s) commissioners or each department MR. KING said direction to the heads as to the F, increase, which -include a cost of r "If we are way counties, we mttst up," Commissi, said. Alice Johnson,-the Johnson,-the Council on tj gested that elene salaries also he rtt receive salaries parable" with ofc' Mr. King said inu that he had held i employees, this, had also been mat COMMISSION pointed out thaifc is presently lev, mills, while mo-levy mo-levy to the upper . mills. Department it meet again on fe$ to again discuss tv that is being implementing k the merit plan, t-hanging t-hanging fire lor t The Intergoverar; sonnel Agency inducted in-ducted a $5,0ta the merit plan: under considerate plan has never be STATE law ret. when more than j are employed in a:: a merit plan it Davis County pre 136 employees nil covered by either 1 health or law en!) merit system. |
