Memorandum
Date: April 16, 2024
To: The Honorable Bruno Sabatier, Chair, Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Susan Parker, County Administrative Officer
Pam Samac, Human Resources Director
Subject: Consideration of the Classification, Compensation, Recruitment, and Retention Committee (CCRR) 2023-2024 Reclassification Cycle Findings and Recommendations
Executive Summary: The Classification, Compensation, Recruitment, and Retention Committee (CCRR) has completed the review of department reclassification and salary adjustment requests that were submitted for FY 2023/2024 reclassification cycle. The Committee met, reviewed and discussed the requests, and made Committee recommendations.
In total, 7 Departments submitted 33 requests for review listed below.
1. Rich Ford, Assessor-Recorder Request and Justification
We have had numerous failed recruitments in the Appraiser classification. The Appraisers the county currently employs started as Deputy Assessor Recorders (DAR). To continue to function, we need to decrease our vacancies. Property tax and the revenue generated from them account for 50-55% of the discretionary budget of the County.
The responsibility for working the property tax resides with these employees. If the tax roll does not close, the County will not have proper funding. We will continue to develop from within our department, but to grow an Appraiser from the DAR position it takes approximately four years. This time frame is due to a California state requirement, that a candidate for an Appraiser license must have a four-year degree or four years working in the Assessor office or any combination thereof.
An Appraiser Aide cannot value properties under California state regulations. The shift to a higher grade is based on the work level and complexity. Having worked in both the Auditor-Controller's office and my current office, I felt that the accounting grade classification best suited the complexities of the Appraiser Cla...
Click here for full text