Item 3: Ratification of Unanimous IGR Actions and Action on Non-Unanimous IGR Actions

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Contact Respondent Dept Updated Priority Recommendation Susan Mullett CS-HR 01/24/2011 Pri 1 Oppose Comments: Too restrictive. Would have an impact on departments in the City that use temporary employees. This impact would require change in business plans, cutting services or increase in program costs to the public. Currently the City already has guidelines for temporary employees and many are within the 1040 hours. Contact Respondent Dept Updated Priority Recommendation Mike Magee LRCS-ADM 01/20/2011 Pri 1 Oppose Comments: This bill would require LRCS to significantly change the way we do business and would result in cost increases or program/service reductions. LRCS utilizes temporary employees to staff programs and services during times of increased activity throughout the year. Many of these employees are high school and college students that need to have flexible schedules to meet their study obligations. As an example, in our Aquatics programs, temporary staff have been certified and trained to provide unique skills such as lifeguarding as well as swim and water fitness instructing. Other services that could be affected include LRCS facility front desk positions, before and after school program care providers, and specialty class and program leaders. While some of our temporary employees do work less than six calendar months in a twelve month period, many do work more than that while still remaining under the current 1040 hours per year limit. By making the definition of a temporary employee more restrictive, LRCS would have to hire, train and terminate new temporary staff every six months, hire more regular staff at a significantly increased cost to the City, reduce the capacity of programs based on existing regular staff without using significant temporary employees, and/or cut back on the number of programs/services enabling us to use our existing regular staff. Because of the significant impacts, LRCS opposes this bill unless the definition is changed to incorporate employees who work 1040 hours or less in a calendar year. However, since this affects all temporary employees in the City, we will defer to HR, as the City’s lead on this bill, if they have a differing opinion. HB 2586 Relating Clause: Relating to the application of prevailing wage rates to enterprise zones; declaring an emergency. Title: Classifies exemption from ad valorem property taxation as funds of public agency for purpose of requiring payment of prevailing rate of wage. Sponsored by: By Representative SCHAUFLER; Representative MATTHEWS (Presession filed.) URL: http://www.leg.state.or.us/11reg/measpdf/hb2500.dir/hb2586.intro.pdf Contact Respondent Dept Updated Priority Recommendation Larry Hill CS-FIN 01/20/2011 Pri 3 Oppose 19