To: Martin L. Cousineau, Finance Committee Chairperson
From: Joshua Freeman, Director of Administration
title
RE: Position Creation
recommendation
BOARD ACTION REQUESTED:
Approval of a request to create, post & fill 1 Deputy Director position at Genesee County’s Community Corrections.
BACKGROUND:
This board previously approved the creation of a no-benefit position using ARPA funding. This position filled the role of a deputy while also working towards engaging with the courts to aid in population reduction at the Genesee County Jail.
DISCUSSION:
Genesee County is now receiving funding from Opioid Settlements. The Opioid Executive Committee has been meeting regularly for nearly a year to determine best practices for spending these dollars. The Committee has presented its findings to the Board of County Commissioners on two occasions. In discussions with staff, it has been determined that oversite of these settlement dollars and oversite of the expected goals would be best housed in Genesee County’s Office of Community Corrections. The current deputy position is a no benefit position that is handling Community Corrections tasks. In expanding this position and role, the position would become a full-time, benefited position, that will be paid 20% from Community Corrections funding and 80% from Opioid Settlement funding for a total salary rate of $80,000 annually. There would be no cost to the general fund.
IMPACT ON HUMAN RESOURCES:
Normal hiring requirements
IMPACT ON BUDGET:
There is no additional impact to the general fund. This position will be fully grant funded. In approving
IMPACT ON FACILITIES:
No additional impact.
IMPACT ON TECHNOLOGY:
No additional impact.
CONFORMITY TO COUNTY PRIORITIES:
In creating this position and furthering the goals of the Opioid Executive Committee and the Office of Community Corrections, we contribute towards Health, Livable, & Safe Communities by helping to reduce opioid related crimes and addictions and continue to help reduce incarceration rates and through engagement and programing for court involved residents. In addition, by engaging with our partners through the Opioid Executive Committee, we further the priority of an Inclusive and Collaborative Culture. The county has acted as a convener with these dollars to obtain the best possible outcomes for our residents.
resolution
TO THE HONORABLE CHAIRPERSON AND MEMBERS OF THE GENESEE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, GENESEE COUNTY, MICHIGAN
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
BE IT RESOLVED, by this Board of County Commissioners of Genesee County, Michigan, that the request by the Director of Administration to authorize establishing and filling one Deputy Director position in the Office of Community Corrections, said position to be funded 80% by the Opioid Settlement Funding account 2960-245.00-702.000 and related fringe accounts and funded 20% by the Community Corrections Grant Funding 2300-322.00-702.000 and related fringe accounts, is approved (a copy of the memorandum request and supporting documentation being on file with the official records of the March 20, 2024 meeting of the Finance Committee of this Board), and the Chief Financial Officer is directed to record the attached budget amendment.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this Board finds that extenuating circumstances exist supporting waiver of the hiring freeze, and directs the Director of Human Resources to have the necessary personnel position number created, as necessary, for said position and to commence the hiring process so that the position may be filled as soon as practicable in accordance with County policy and any applicable collective bargaining agreement.