34-35 - Appointment of Deputy City Manager & Assistant City Manager

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Emergency Service Departments and HR. Mr. Vine will take on responsibility of Community Service Departments, including the addition of City Clerk, Finance and PIO (discussed below). Mr. Harris will take on responsibility of Public Infrastructure Departments, including those he currently oversees as well as Public Works and City Engineering. He will continue to perform many of his current duties while delegating some to his direct assigns as needed to accommodate his new responsibilities as the ACM. A copy of the new proposed organizational chart is included as Exhibit F. Separating out these three spheres of municipal operation will allow the City Management Department to have greater efficiency and response time to issues, questions, requests, and concerns raised by City Councilmembers, citizens, developers, other governmental agencies, consultants, etc. Furthermore, this will give Department Heads and staff greater timely access to and response from the City Management Department for high level decision making, strategizing, issue handling, contract negotiation, HR management, and more. This will also allow us to better focus our efforts within the Community Service related departments, Public Infrastructure related departments, and Emergency Service related departments. To accomplish this change financially, the Director of Utilities position will be unbudgeted. Mr. Harris is currently on Step 8 of his current range and will move to Step 1 of the ACM range. Mr. Vine's pay range under a DCM will simply shift around his current pay. Both employees will receive pay adjustments commensurate with those being done under item #3 of this Budget Message, other than Mr. Harris who will indeed see an additional pay increase from Step 8 of his current range to Step 1 of the ACM range. The Step Plan for these and all other positions are included as part of the Proposed FY23124 Budget packet, Exhibit E. As the City Manager, it is one of my many duties to recognize and promote opportunities for greater efficiency for our municipal operations and service to our community, particularly when those opportunities exist from within. Given the available in-house skill and talent we have in Mr. Harris, it makes total sense to promote his abilities forward and upwards to perform even greater service to our community. STATUS OF ISSUE: Pursuant to the Paris City Charter, Section 21, "Neither the council nor any of'its members shall direct the city manager or any of his or her subordinates in the appointment or removal of'any city employee; provided,, however, that rdeoar tment heads shall be subiect to the a� ro>>ctl ol'the council." Therefore, while the City Council has approved the FY23/24 Budget which explicitly called for these appointments, it is appropriate to follow up that action with Resolutions as has been our standard procedure for all previous department head approvals. If their appointments are approved by the City Council, Mr. Vine and Mr. Harris will begin their new roles on October 1, 2023.