File #: WRAG 17-154    Name: Resolution re Layoff Notice to Employee
Type: WR General Agenda Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 6/12/2017 In control: Water Resources Agency Board of Directors
On agenda: 6/19/2017 Final action:
Title: Adopt a Resolution: a. Considering, recommending and authorizing the issuance of a lay-off notice to impacted employee no sooner than June 20, 2017 with an effective date on or about July 12, 2017; b. Considering, recommending and authorizing the Human Resources Department to collaborate with the Agency and departments to provide in-placement and out-placement services.
Attachments: 1. Board Report, 2. Resolution
Title
Adopt a Resolution:
a. Considering, recommending and authorizing the issuance of a lay-off notice to impacted employee no sooner than June 20, 2017 with an effective date on or about July 12, 2017;
b. Considering, recommending and authorizing the Human Resources Department to collaborate with the Agency and departments to provide in-placement and out-placement services.

Report
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Directors adopt a Resolution:

a. Considering, recommending and authorizing the issuance of a lay-off notice to impacted employee no sooner than June 20, 2017 with an effective date on or about July 12, 2017;
b. Considering, recommending and authorizing the Human Resources Department to collaborate with the Agency and departments to provide in-placement and out-placement services.

SUMMARY/ DISCUSSION:
The Water Resources Agency Board of Directors, on April 17, 2017, approved its FY 2017-18 Agency Recommended Budget which eliminated one unfunded full-time Engineer position and one funded full-time Department Information System Manager DISM) I. The Recommended Budget demonstrated that the elimination of the DISM resulted in salary and benefit savings of approximately $137,730, thereby assisting the Agency in achieving the goal of a structurally balanced budget where revenues match expenditures. Going forward, the Agency planned to fully utilize the County Information Technology Department to bring the Agency's information technology into the 21st Century.

On June 6, 2017 the Water Resources Agency Board of Supervisors approved the Agency Recommended Budget, without changes, and further adopted a Resolution:

a. Authorizing the issuance of a lay-off notice to impacted employee no sooner than June 9, 2017 with an effective date on or about July 12, 2017;
b. Authorizing the Human Resources Department to collaborate with departments to provide in-placement and out-placement services.

Additionally, the Supervisors directed Agency St...

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