To: Board of Supervisors
From: County Administrative Office
Agenda Section: Departmental
Vote Requirement: Majority
SUBJECT:
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County Reorganization and Process Improvement
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Receive information around organizational process improvements;
2. Provide staff direction on departmental reorganization strategies; and
3. Direct the County Administrative Office to include costs associated to selected options in the 2024-25 Adopted Budget.
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STRATEGIC PLAN:
This action supports the following areas of your Board's Strategic Plan.
Area of Focus: Core Services/Other
Strategic Plan Category: 9999 - Core Services/Other
DISCUSSION:
On Feb. 6, 2024, your Board directed staff to come back to your Board within 90-days with a report to update your office on options of reorganization and costs of outside consulting.
At the Budget Ad-Hoc meetings the Ad-Hoc discussed opportunities for efficiencies through optimization of resources, both from a personnel standpoint and through the use of improved technologies and processes. Topics included and were not limited to:
? Internal reorganizations
? Consolidations of duties
? Staffing reduction through attrition
? Doing less with less
? Office hours
? Flex scheduling
? Telework
Additionally, two meetings were held with Department Heads to discuss efficiencies and potential reorganization strategies. Meetings were held on March 14, 2024, and April 30, 2024, and followed with a survey to collect data and feedback around Department Head priorities. Those results are contained in detail within the Reorganization Options (attached) and in the Survey Results (attached). Departments Heads have been presented the results of the survey and relayed that they felt more information may have been needed to appropriately answer some of the questions or that questions were not fully understood. With that in mind, the survey results are included as a t...
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