Title
Adopt a Resolution to:
a. Amend County Counsel Budget Unit 8057 - Fund 001 - Appropriation Unit COU001 to reallocate one (1) Chief Deputy County Counsel to one (1) Assistant County Counsel as indicated in Attachment A;
b. Direct the County Administrative Office and the Auditor-Controller to incorporate the approved position changes in the FY 2021-22 Adopted Budget.
Report
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors adopts a Resolution to:
a. Amend County Counsel Budget Unit 8057 - Fund 001 - Appropriation Unit COU001 to reallocate one (1) Chief Deputy County Counsel to one (1) Assistant County Counsel as indicated in Attachment A;
b. Direct the County Administrative Office and the Auditor-Controller to incorporate the approved position changes in the FY 2021-22 Adopted Budget.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
County Counsel is requesting to reallocate a vacant Chief Deputy County Counsel position to an Assistant County Counsel position. The County Counsel's Office has 3 major legal divisions; Land Use, General Government and Litigation. The Assistant County Counsel positions are critical in that they direct and supervise the work of one or more major legal divisions while personally performing highly complex and difficult legal work in providing legal counsel to the Board of Supervisors and County departments.
The County Counsel's Office previously had two (2) Assistant County Counsel with one managing the Land Use division and one managing the General Government and Litigation Divisions. The recent promotion of the Assistant County Counsel managing the General Government and Litigation Divisions to the Chief Assistant County Counsel position has created the need for this reallocation as the Assistant County Counsel was underfilling the Chief Assistant County Counsel position and there is not another Assistant County Counsel position that can be filled. There is a vacant Chief Deputy County Counsel position that is recommended to be reallocated t...
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