Fiscal Note
The annualized cost of the proposed amendment is approximately $18,050, including benefits. The estimated cost does not include any projected savings from overtime reductions. The increased cost associated with converting the positions will be absorbed within Metro’s 2020 personnel budget.
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Recreating 24 0.3 FTE Transit Operator positions into 7 1.0 FTE Transit Operator positions in order to more effectively provide service with less overtime.
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WHEREAS, Metro Transit has both full-time and part-time Transit Operators; and
WHEREAS, Metro Transit reliance on part-time drivers has increased its overtime budget as service needs increase, and
WHEREAS, in order to recruit more effectively, Metro Transit has concluded that offering full-time Transit Operator positions would be attractive to candidates, and
WHEREAS, Metro Transit needs to create additional full-time positions in order to reduce overtime and effectively recruit, and
WHEREAS, Metro Transit has a number of vacant 0.3 FTE part-time Transit Operator positions that can be combined into full-time positions;
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the following 0.3 FTE Transit Operator positions are deleted and recreated as 1.0 FTE Transit Operator positions-2682, 2735, 2737, 2747, 2875, 2908, and 2957, and the following 0.3 FTE Transit Operator positions are deleted-2963, 2993, 3422, 3423, 3424, 3445, 3447, 3479, 3615, 3966, 3967, 3968, 4055, 4056, 4360, 4361, and 4362, all in the Metro Transit operating budget, thereof.