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ANNUAL TOWN MEETING Pa e2 on Finance Committee recommends approval. Clerical Union,Grade 2,Step 1,and further the Town vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available i A�Et�cle 9_To see if the Town will vote to increase the funds the sum of distributed as follows:24,363,with said funds to be $18,577 t the Personnel hours of the part-time Administrative Clerk in personnel from 19 hours weekly to 37 1/2hours weekly Salary/Wage Account,$5,481 to the Medical Insurance to be effective July 1,1998 and to raise and appropriate Account,$35 to the Group Insurance Account,and$270 $16,078;said funds to be apportioned as follows: to the Medicare Account,or take any other action $10,319 to the Personnel Salary Wage Account,$5,481 to relating thereto. (Submitted by the Board of Selectmen) the Medical Insurance Account,$35 to the Group Insurance Account,and$243 to the Medicare Account, Explanation: This article funds a floating clerk position f or take any other action relating thereto. (Submitted by to rotate among the various Departments to provide the Personnel Administrator) administrative support. This position will be more 39, economical than filling all of the additional staffing 98, ' Explanation: The duties and responsibilities of the requests from Departments this year based on an by Personnel Department staff are directly impacted as increased flow of work. other town departments continue to grow and expand, when contracts are settled,when position vacancies Finance Committee does not recommend approval in occur,when laws are updated and changed,etc. We conjunction urith recommending Article 9. d have gradually assumed more and more responsibilities relating to personnel administration over the years. Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to create a 19 hour Children&Youth Services Librarian Position, The Personnel Department is perceived as a support Grade 10,Step 1,of the Personnel Administration Plan function. Our department is designed to help managers and further to raise and appropriate$14,372 to be and employees do their jobs more effectively. On a distributed as follows: $13,350 to the Library day-to-day basis,we provide a full range of personnel Salary/Wage Account,$1,022 to the Medicare Account, responsibilities in several key functional areas and or take any other action relating thereto.(Submitted by much more. the Library Board of Trustees) od The Personnel Administrative Clerk's role has grown to Explanation:The library will be adding a part-time encompass: position,requiring specialized training in children's 32, services,to provide library services to Mashpee's • maintaining employee files(centralizing children. This position will be responsible for planning files in personnel) and implementing children's programs and will offer • monitoring and tracking of attendance and outreach services to local preschool programs like leave usage Mashpee Kid's Klub and Mashpee Head Start. The 18 • monitoring and tracking the performance Library Director has been providing a limited amount appraisal process of children's services,in addition to her many other • advertising for town positions and duties. Story time for ages 3 to 7 has been offered,but cal collection of all applications children younger than 3 or older than 7 have needs ' • orientation of new employees which cannot be met with the current level of staffing. • contract administration The need for this position was cited in the library's • distribution of town policies and Long Range Plan of 1994 and was deferred for economic procedures reasons. Continued growth in the number of children p in town requires adding this position in FY 1999. • assisting with fringe benefit administration • providing assistance in personnel matters to The library currently has a staffing level of 3.4 full-time town personnel equivalents. The Library Director is the only full-time position at the library. A survey of Cape libraries The demands on the department are difficult to meet documented that 12 towns have positions devoted to with the current staffing of one part-time children's services. Many of these libraries have much Administrative Clerk. Approval of this article will smaller yearly circulations than Mashpee but have increase the hours of the current part-time position much larger staffs. in 1997,the Mashpee Library from 19 hours weekly to 371/2 hours weekly. circulated 95,495 items and served an average of 1,094 patrons each week. Circulation over the last five years Finance Committee recommends approval. has increased 27%. The last increase in staffing was a part-time circulation position added in 1995. A�c�O.To see if the Town will vote to create afull- time Floating Administrative Clerk position under the