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Consent 5.
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| LAFCO |
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| Information |
| SUBJECT |
| Receive Letter of Interest from Patrick McCormick for On-Call LAFCo Services |
| RECOMMENDED ACTION |
| Receive Letter of Interest from Patrick McCormick for On-Call LAFCo Services. If there are any issues or concerns, please pull the item off consent for discussion. |
| FISCAL IMPACT |
| LAFCo budgeted for these on-call services in its fiscal year 2019/20 budget. Salary savings from a corresponding reduction in Executive Officer salary was used to cover these costs, such that there is no net increase in salary/services costs. |
| REASONS FOR RECOMMENDED ACTION |
| Per LAFCo's approval of the Executive Officer's remote working arrangement at its December 2018 meeting, hiring a consultant on-call is been an integral part of this agreement. The Executive Officer will be working part time, remotely from September 3 thorough December 17, 2019. A consultant would fill in when an Executive Officer's physical presence is valuable and/or necessary. |
| BACKGROUND |
Staff sent requests for letters of interest and qualifications to the following LAFCo resources and the response received. This list also included input from Chair Woods and Pamela Miller, CALAFCO Executive Director.
| Request for Interest/Qualifications Sent to: |
Response: |
| George Williamson, Plan West Partners |
Unavailable/no resource capacity |
| John Benoit, consultant |
Unavailable/no resource capacity |
| Lou Ann Texeira, Contra Costa LAFCo |
Unavailable/no resource capacity |
| Mark Bramfitt, Sonoma LAFCo |
Unavailable/no resource capacity |
| Neelima Palacherla, Santa Clara LAFco |
Unavailable/no resource capacity |
| Pat McCormick, consultant (retired Santa Cruz LAFCo) |
Interested/responded |
| Rich Seithel, Solano LAFCo |
No response (to 2 emails) |
Pat McCormick’s may have been the only positive response received, but he is by far my preference to fill this role. Mr. McCormick recently retired from Santa Cruz LAFCo after 38 years of service. After working with him my past eight years with Yolo LAFCo, I find him to have very similar judgment calls on issues and would maintain a consistent approach for Yolo LAFCo. Pamela Miller also highly recommends his work. Therefore, I plan to move forward with hiring him.
After speaking with Mindi Nunes, Yolo County Assistant CAO, her recommendation is hire Pat as “extra help” with the County as a part time employee with no benefits. Ms. Nunes has helped bring an item before the Yolo County Board of Supervisors (BOS) to waive the CALPERS 180-day waiting period since he recently retired on May 11, 2019. This has been scheduled for the July 23rd BOS meeting because its next meeting is not until September 10th. However, BOS action does not commit LAFCo to the hire.
Mr. McCormick's title would be “Assistant EO” so there’s no confusion that I’m still in the mix and still overseeing his work. Per CALPERS requirements, Mr. McCormick's hourly rate cannot exceed comparable ranges, so we have tentatively agreed to an hourly rate of $68.00 which is the same as the Executive Officer's (rounded to the nearest dollar). |
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