There have been many staffing additions to the City this month. Christian Normand, Sgt/Patrick Depa, Sr. Planner/Chris Reyles, Code Enforcement Specialist/Allister Bunch, Patrol and Matt Smith, Telecom Utility Worker.

The City Manager interviews and hire went smoothly. Now the process will begin in the recruitment of our next Finance Director.

The Police Chief Recruitment profile was having the final tweaks with the hope to have the posting live in early October.

An in-depth City wide training program is in the beginning stages of development which will range from new hire training, accessing annual and specialty training based on department needs along with overall employee development training. This is part of the overall effort to continue investing in the city’s workforce, retaining staff, and maintaining our low turnover rate. This will also help with employee moral while increasing and developing a well rounded staff to do their jobs safely, efficiently and effectively.

A small number of front facing staff attended an all day Mental Health First Aid training course put on by Officer Sabella developed by the National Council for Behavior Health.

Open Enrollment begins for City staff next month. What is exciting about this enrollment for 2024 is that the City is picking up an additional 5% of the cost. The split will go from 85/15 to 90/10.

There have been many staffing changes this month.

Susie Jenkins, Library Clerk will retire on September 1st from the Library.

Two new Utility Worker I were hired. Kevin Teneyck and Kyle Rohweder.

Interviews and offers were extended and accepted for on-call Library Clerk openings. Alex Steinmetz and Haley Young have joined our staff this month. Interviews were scheduled for two on-call Shelver openings.

Interviews and an offer accepted for the new Code Enforcement Specialist in Development Services. Chris Relyea will start in September. The Sr. Planner was also selected and will be starting in September.

Two Sergeants offers were extended and accepted and start next month. Manny Herrera will be promoted from Patrol and Christian Normand will join us as an external hire.

We have entered into a contract with GMP for the Police Chief Recruitment.

Michael Freeman retired from his volunteer assignment as a reserve officer as of 8/31/2023.

Police Patrol Interviews will take place next month on May 10th.

Community center is hiring more building monitors to replace future vacancy due to some employees leaving for college.

Our seasonal employee for parks and recreation started the end of this month.

Development Services had a Senior Planner turn in a resignation and she will be leaving on March 9th.

Police will be entering payroll through the on-line system beginning in February for the first time. We will be verifying the transfer over the next couple of months to ensure accuracy.

The Benefit and Comp survey was completed and is being evaluated.

I am in the process of developing a City Wide Training program for each employee that includes everything but not limited to: cyber security, ethics, DEI, communication, management development, and job specific/related.

The Police Union contract was ratified and all changes were made in time for the January payroll.

Development Services had a Permit Technician resignation who will be leaving the first of February. Recruitment started immediately.

Continued clean up and development of transitioning Police Payroll away from paper timesheets to on-line with the goal of the final transfer during the month of April 2023 payroll.

The Benefit and Comp survey is almost complete with the report coming from our consultant the middle of next month.

Parks and Recreation welcomed another Building Monitor that will start in January 2023.

Beginning the development of a City Wide training program for all employees related to all things HR.

Open Enrollment was complete for the City of Sandy Staff.

Recruitment for Parks & Recreation wrapped up this month with two offers being extended and accepted. Caroleana Smallwood is our new Client Services Coordinator and Amy Lytle is our new Recreation Coordinator.

Work has started on the Salary & Benefit Compensation Review for General Services.

Educational training began for all management staff on the new Oregon Paid Leave Program that begins in 2023. All City employees along with the City will begin contributions into the Oregon mandated program beginning in January of 2023.

Parks & Recreation went out for Recruitment for the Client Services Coordinator position and interviews will take place in October. They also welcomed Brandon Shaffer into the Parks & Facilities Maintenance Worker I this month. The position of Recreation Coordinator has been put on hold.

Work begin on Open Enrollment along with the future benefit and compensation survey for the City. Union Negotiations are still in process.

Parks & Recreation will interview for their Recreation Coordinator position during the second week of September. The Parks and Facilities Maintenance Worker I position closed and interviews took place the 1st week of September. The hope is to have a new employee starting by early October. They also filled their final opening for Building Monitor.

The library successfully filled three on-call Library Clerks that all will start in September. The Library is now fully staffed.

Very excited to welcome our new new Assistant Public Works Director AJ Thorne who starts 9/1/2022.

The Safety Committee will be conducting their first Safety Inspections in September. This will be the first ones since COVID.

Our on-call Building Inspector received another position and his last day was August 4th. That position will not be refilled at this time.

Parks & Recreation is still currently recruiting for their Recreation Coordinator and hope to conduct another set of interviews in September. They have recently posted a full-time Parks and Facilities Maintenance Worker I. They have hired one Building Monitor and are still recruiting for one more.

The library is looking to fill two on-call Library Clerks and will be conducted interviews in late August early September.

Union negotiations are still underway.

With help from Greg Brewster, the City has developed a Heat and Air Quality index website to keep managers and employees who work outside in the elements informed about severe weather conditions related to heat and air quality. This website provides education information for signs, symptoms and treatment options of heat related illnesses. It allows the staff to plan their workday by giving hour by hour weather projections and alerts when the heat index changes levels. Here is a link to the website to take a look. https://sandynet.org/heat

Recruitment is wrapping up on the Assistant Public Works Director/Project Manager and hope to have a hiring decision in early August and a start date in September.