To: Board of Supervisors
From: Monica Nino, County Administrator
Report Title: Modifying Benefits for Employee #87069 as a Licensed Attorney in the Director of Child Support Services - Exempt Classification.
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
ADOPT a resolution effective February 25, 2025, applying the terms of Unrepresented Management Benefits Resolution No. 2023/554 sections 30.10 State Bar Dues Reimbursement and 30.11 Professional Development Reimbursement to Employee #87069 while employed in the Director of Child Support Services - Exempt (SMA1) classification as a licensed, active attorney. Additionally, exclude the incumbent from the provisions of section 23 Executive Professional Development Reimbursement.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The fiscal impact will be limited to the annual cost of state bar dues reimbursement for the incumbent and the biannual cost of increased professional development of $475.
BACKGROUND:
The Director of Child Support Services - Exempt (SMA1) classification is generally entitled to the benefits that other non-attorney department heads receive under the County's Management Benefits Resolution. Benefits for attorney department heads differ with respect to certain reimbursements.
Employee #87069 is a licensed, active attorney but is unable to access the benefits that other attorney department heads have under the Management Benefits Resolution. To remedy this, the employee's benefits should be modified to apply the following:
* State Bar Dues Reimbursement as set forth in Section 30.10.
* Professional Development Reimbursement up to a maximum of seven hundred dollars ($700) each fiscal year and any unused amount carried forward up to a maximum of eight hundred dollars ($800) as set forth in Section 30.11.
* Employee #87069 will not receive the benefits listed under Section 23 - Executive Professional Development Reimbursement since this is replaced by the above.
CONSEQUENCE O...
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