The City of Lee's Summit - File #: BILL NO. 20-247

• File #: BILL NO. 20-247
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 12/6/2020
• In control: City Council - Regular Session
• On agenda: 12/15/2020
• Final action: 1/5/2021
• Title: An Ordinance approving Amendment No. 7 to the Budget for the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 2021, as adopted by Ordinance No. 8905 and Ordinance No. 8906, by amending the authorized amount of full time equivalent positions in the Law Department for the City of Lee’s Summit, Missouri, and establishing a new pay and classification plan. (Note: First reading by Council on December 15, 2020. Passed by unanimous vote.)

Date	Action By	Action	Result
1/5/2021	City Council - Regular Session	adopted and numbered	Pass
12/15/2020	City Council - Regular Session	advanced to second reading	Pass

Title
An Ordinance approving Amendment No. 7 to the Budget for the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 2021, as adopted by Ordinance No. 8905 and Ordinance No. 8906, by amending the authorized amount of full time equivalent positions in the Law Department for the City of Lee’s Summit, Missouri, and establishing a new pay and classification plan.
(Note: First reading by Council on December 15, 2020. Passed by unanimous vote.)

Body
Discussion.
From time to time with the change in personnel and in order to meet the ever evolving needs of the City, the Law Department needs realignment and reorganization. This amendment to the pay and compensation plan is such a reorganization on the small scale. As you may know, the incumbent employee who serves as the Chief of Infrastructure and Planning is retiring. Additionally, the previous law department Chief of Management and Operations who transferred from Law to the Parks Department as the Superintendent of Legal Services and Human Resources is no longer with that Department requiring those duties to come back to the Law Department. Together, those duties are sufficient to provide a full time position. The position currently titled Chief of Infrastructure and Planning has been revised to include duties related to Parks and Recreation and would now be titled Chief of Infrastructure and Recreation. Additionally, this ordinance creates the position of Chief of Special Projects. The current incumbent Chief of Infrastructure and Planning will become the Chief of Special Projects.
Is the Law Department asking to increase the number of Full Time Equivalents (FTE)?
No, in order to be able to hire a full time Chief of Infrastructure and Recreation we need to allocate one (1) FTE to the position. The retirement described above will result in that that employee being assigned two projects, therefore the full time equivalent (FTE) will be reduced from .75 to .25. Additionally, the current Chief of Litigation has requested that we...