It’s taken a year to go over the entire binder of job descriptions submitted to Marshall County officials from Waggoner, Irwin and Scheele. The county council members formally took action on those job descriptions Monday morning.
Sub-Committee and County Council Member Jon VanVactor explained several recommendations that differ from those of the consulting firm.
“It was the recommendation from WIS, as far as the first deputies, they were looking to make them exempt and make them salaried and they would be paid 80 percent of the office holder. The committee looked at it and the committee is recommending that we leave them as non-exempt, make them hourly employees, and if they earn overtime they’d be paid overtime or compensatory time just as they are now,” noted VanVactor.
The recommendation for the public health nurse, coordinator of WIC, sheriff’s captain, chief jailer, and communications supervisor is that they stay exempt by WIS but treat those positions as non-exempt, continue hourly pay, and allow them to be paid overtime or compensatory time as it has been for the past several years.
The committee members recommend changing the veteran’s service officer as non-exempt, as provided by WIS, and that position be paid overtime to be compliant with FSLA.
Job descriptions for the three courts resulted in standardizing titles for those job descriptions. Court administrator, court reporter, baliff and law clerk will be the standard. In Superior Court No. 2., there will be an administrative assistant, civil administrative clerk, assistant criminal clerk, and security officer.
There are a few positions that still need job descriptions including lake enforcement seasonal deputies, seasonal assessor personal property data collector, adult probation intern part-time , health officer, sanitary assistant, and part-time health education position.
Jon VanVactor said they tried staying to the main goal of the process.
“The job descriptions, the salary ordinance and the budgets would all have the same verbage throughout so you can follow it through,” said VanVactor.
“Makes it a lot cleaner,” commented Council President Judy Stone.
All of the recommendations were unanimously approved. The next discussion will involve wages.
The Marshall County Council members commended VanVactor and County Council Members Penny Lukenbill and Heath Thornton for their efforts on the committee as well as Human Resources Officer Tori Stull, and Auditor Julie Fox.
