CALLED
Finance Committee Meeting
Minutes
FY06 Budget Presentations
Glynn
County Board of Commissioners
9:00 P.M., Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Third
Floor Conference Room
W.
Harold Pate Courthouse Annex
Brunswick, Georgia
Present:
Committee Members: H. Lynn, U. Keller, and T. Thaw
Other
Commissioners: C. Johnson
Staff: D. Chunn, P. Gibson, Cindy
Johnson, P. McNicoll, B. Rowell, S. Schaeffner, R. Taylor
Press:
Others:
1)
Departmental presentations:
a)
Solicitor of State Court
Mr. Richard
Taylor, State Court Solicitor, met with the Committee and stated that he was
requesting an increase of $6 thousand each for his two Assistant
Solicitors. He said that the number of
State Court cases were down in 2004 but that there was more court time than
ever before. He stated that State Court
revenue should have been up in January, 2005.
Commissioner Johnson inquired as to the hourly rate of the assistants
and Mr. Taylor stated that they were roughly $50 per hour.
b)
Property
Appraisal Office
Mr. Steve
Schaeffener, Chief Appraiser, presented his request for a reclassification of
an Appraiser I to a Programs Analyst position and the reclassification of a
part-time Administrative Technician to a full-time position. Mr. Schaeffner stated that the number of
parcels will probably increase to 41,000 this year. This is up from 36,500 parcels when Mr. Schaeffner began working
for the County. He said that he needed
the Programs Analyst to perform various computer related tasks as requested by
his department.
c)
Board of Elections
Ms.
Patti Gibson, Board of Elections Chairman, and Ms. Cindy Johnson, Elections
Supervisor, met with the Committee to request the reclassification of an
existing part-time Administrative Technician I to a full-time position. Ms. Johnson stated that the current employee
did not want to work full-time but she would be retiring soon and they would
like for the reclassification to be effective when they fill the vacancy.
2)
FY06 Personnel recommendations
by the Budget Team. (B. Rowell) pages
2-3 (See
Personnel request package for details)
Ms.
Becky Rowell, Assistant County Administrator, presented the Personnel requests
recommended by the Budget Team and they agreed with the Team’s recommendations
except for the Administrative Technician I requested by Animal Control. The Committee recommended that the City fund
the additional position.
The
Committee then discussed the list of all other personnel requests. They made a decision to discuss the Police
Department request at a later meeting and they agreed to the following:
a) increase the Assistant Magistrates salaries from
$525 per month to $675 per month in Magistrate Court Department,
b) reclassify a part-time Administrative Technician to
full-time in the Property Appraisal Department,
c) denied all other personnel requests in the following
departments:
·
Administration –
Facilities Maintenance
·
Board of Elections
·
EMS
·
Information Technology
– GIS
·
Juvenile Court
·
Magistrate Court
·
Property Appraisal
·
State Court Solicitor
·
Utilities
Management