To: Honorable Mayor and Members of City Council
From: Heather Ruiz, Human Resources Director
Prepared By: Gabrielle Petersen, Management Analyst II
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Classification Plan and Salary Range for Senior Housing Specialist in the Community Development Department
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RECOMMENDED ACTION:
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Adopt a resolution approving the classification specification and salary range for Senior Housing Specialist.
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DISCUSSION:
As a part of the Budget approval and Citywide Staffing Plan for Fiscal Year 2021-2022, City Council approved the addition of an allocation for Senior Housing Specialist. The Senior Housing Specialist allocation was added to maintain a complete caseload for rental assistance programs, support initiatives for formal landlord recruitment and the expansion of community partnerships, as well as to provide back-up to the Supervisor in the case of their absence.
Thus, as previously approved by City Council, the Citywide Staffing Plan identifies 1.00 position for the Senior Housing Specialist classification and 5.00 positions for the Housing Specialist classification. This item recommends approval of the classification specification and salary range for the Senior Housing Specialist position with no changes to the number of positions allocated in the Citywide Staffing Plan. However, the Decision Packet accompanying the budget referenced a plan for City staff to run a promotional recruitment for this newly created Senior House Specialist position, and then delete a vacant Housing Specialist position resulting from the promotion. Subsequent to the approval of the budget, Housing received additional funding making the deletion of the vacant position not necessary. The budgeted staffing plan accurately reflects the addition of this position.
The Community Development Department requested Human Resources conduct a study to review the needs of the Department regarding the Housing classifications and necessary programmatic support. H...
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