Productivity Committee Minutes 08/21/1996 County Government
Productivity Committee
Meeting Minutes
August 21, 1996, 2:00 P.M.
Members Present Absent
Jack McKenna x
James Cavanagh x
Dave Craig x
Edward Ferguson x
Marc Gertner x
Charles Getler x
Timothy Hancock x
Bob Laird x
Bill Neal x
Karl Otto x
Brian Paul x
John Stockton x
Bernard Weiss x
Staff
Sheila Leith x
Introduction:
-Jack McKenna introduced Charles Getler and Brian Paul who have recently been
appointed to the Productivity Committee by the BCC.
-both Charles and Brian provided a brief outline of their experience
-Jack welcomed both Charles and Brian to the Committee
-the Committee members are looking forward to working with Charles and Brian and to
drawing on their experience and expertise
-the Committee is now at full membership
a. Budget Systems and Procedure-
-the budget report will be distributed to the Board and County Manager's office for
review and comment
-it will only be presented at a Board meeting if the Board of County Commissioners wish
to discuss the report in a public forum
b. Purchasing-
-Charles Getler and Brian Paul both have experience in this area and will contact Bernie
Weiss to assist him with this project
c. Human Resources-
-the sub-committee met with Jennifer Edwards to review previous recommendations as a
followup
-Jennifer raised a concern regarding merit pay as there have been some dicussion
suggesting the elimination of merit pay within the organization
-the sub-committee feels that merit pay is an important motivator and can be used
effectively once the new HR software is in place providing good instruments to evaluate
performance
-this should greatly improve the performance appraisal process and provide good
incentives, goal setting and measurement capabilities, continue to raise standards
-the Productivity Committee objects to the philosophy of COLA's
-the Committee believes that most well run organizations do not give COLA's
-this provides an opportunity to excel but County managment needs to buy into the
concept
-it was suggested that the 3-4 members of the Productivity Committee,Neil Dorrill and
his key people have a brainstorming session with the help of a facilitator to keep it on
track
-they would work toward finding the most appropriate and equitiable system to reward
employees
-1St phase would be determining the structure
2nd stage would be implemmentation
-look at privatization standards as a project model
-Privatization Task Force was disband so Productivity Committee is free to explore this
area
- New Business-
-the Committee discussed possible new areas of study with Commissioner Hancock
providing some insight as to what
Meeting adjourned 3:40 P.M.
Next meeting September 18, 1996, 2:00 P.M.
County Managers' Boardroom, 2nd Floor, Administration Building