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Receive the Human Resources Assessment Report (CM)
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MEETING DATE:
February 11, 2025
PREPARED BY:
Laurie Montes, Assistant City Manager-Part-Time
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RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Receive the Human Resources Assessment Report.
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
On September 3, 2024, the City Manager entered into a professional services agreement with Municipal Resource Group, LLC (MRG) for Human Resources (HR) On Demand Consulting Services. Since then, Council and City employees worked with Teri Silva, MRG Affiliated Consultant on numerous issues. MRG was tasked with preparing an assessment of the HR Division's organizational structure and capacity, analyzing work functions to include best practices and workload. To accomplish this review, MRG conducted interviews with staff, Department Directors and the Human Resources Manager before retirement. MRG compared the HR Division configuration and staffing to comparable cities and national standards. In addition, MRG reviewed department administrative policies, the protocol manual and personnel rules, the Executive Management Statement of Benefits and many other HR documents.
MRG found that the City has outdated policies and procedures that have not been updated in years or decades. Additionally, there is a lack of training and staff often rely on past practice which may be inconsistent with current law or best practice. Staffing levels are inadequate to maintain daily transactions and to develop policies and procedures to establish a high functioning department that implements best practices in human resource administration.
The City of Lodi currently has 461 authorized full-time-equivalent (FTE) positions and 5 are allocated to HR. Lodi has one of the lowest ratios of human resources staff per 100 employees among the comparable agencies used in the recent market survey for salary adjustments. The only cities that have a lower ratio are those that have less than 400 FT...
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