HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1978.06.15 - 12786June 15, 1978
Miscellaneous Resolution # 8525
By: Robert H. Garsline, County Commissioner, District #2
In re: County Overtime Policy
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, the overtime budget of the County of Oakland is too costly; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners believes the overtime pay should be
decreased substantially.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
adopt as its overtime policy, the following:
1. No employee shall be required or permitted to work overtime to the extent that
the overtime pay will exceed fifteen percent (15%) of the employee's regular salary.
2. No department, elected official or other Board or Agency shall expend an amount
for overtime in excess of two percent (2%) of its total operating budget without specific
authorization from the Board of Commissioners, after review and approval by the Finance Committee.
3. The Department of Management and Budget shall promptly inform the Finance Com-
mittee when any department, elected official or other Board or Agency exceeds the above
limitations and shall prepare a resolution, for consideration by the Finance Committee, reducr:g
the current operating budget of any such department, elected official or other Board or Agency,
said reduction to be equal to an amount one and one-half times the amount in excess a:: the
above limitations.
4. The Finance Committee shall inquire as to the reasons for such excess expenditure
and may find the amount, or a portion thereof, justified by unusual or other mitic rotino
stances, but in that event the committee shall report its findings to the Board of Commissione,.
stating the nature of the circumstances and recommending that the subject department, eleated
official or other Board or Agency not be penal ized for the excess expenditure and thc, He
permitted overtime amount be increased by the amount of the excess expenditure.
5. In the event the Finance Committee finds no unusual or other mitia--.5,,tir:o
stances causing the excess expenditure, the committee shall report the resolution fe.-
reduction to the full Board of Commissioners.
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6. The Finance Committee shall have thirty (30) days from the date of the report
of the Deportment of Management and Budget in which to investigate the nature and causes
of the excess expenditure, and if the Finance Committee fails to make its report to the full
Board of Commissioners within that time, the Chairperson of the Board of Commissioners shall
cause the resolution for budget reduction, as prepared by the Department of Management and
Budget, to be placed on the agenda of the next meeting of the Board of Commissioners as a
special order of business.
MR. CHAIRPERSON, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.