HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2015.02.18 - 21668MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #15024 February 18, 2015
BY: General Government Committee, Christine Long, Chairperson
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS/LIBRARY BOARD DELETION OF LIBRARY TECHNICIAN H
POSITION
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, due to the conservative budget climate, the Board of Commissioners continues to try
to identify measures to reduce costs; and
WHEREAS the Library Board commissioned a study group to study all facets of library operations
and to make recommendations as to how to structure library operations for the next 5-10 years; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Library Board identified in its 2014 Study Report certain
structural and procedural changes to provide greater efficiencies in service and to implement $126,000 in
reductions in FY2015; and
WHEREAS as the Library continues to migrate to electronic content formats, the need for the
physical processing of materials will decrease; and
WHEREAS the decommissioning of the Research Library, which will happen later in 2015, will
result in less staffing needs within the Library since those functions will no longer be performed; and
WHEREAS this 2014 Study Report resulted in a recommendation that the Library should reduce
its staffing by two (2) full-time eligible (FTE) positions through attrition over the course of the next decade;
and
WHEREAS one (1) Library Technician ll position (#5010302-06156) was vacated via a staff
retirement on October 4, 2014; and
WHEREAS the duties of this position have been absorbed by other library positions; and
WHEREAS the Library Board passed Resolution #14-27 on November 24, 2014, to delete the
position from its budget.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that one (1) GF/GP full-time eligible Library Technician II
position (#5010302-06156) be deleted in the Library Board Division Law/ Research Library.
Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee I move the adoption of the foregoing
resolution.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote with Taub absent.
Resolution #15024 February 18, 2015
The Chairperson referred the resolution to the Human Resources Committee and the Finance
Committee. There were no objections.