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CITY OF CARLSBAD
AGENDA BILL N0. /4Q% Initial:
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DATE: December 21, 1976 C. Atty.
7�; DEPARTMENT: Engineering C. Mgr.
Subject:
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT - REQUEST FOR NEW SENIOR ENGINEERING
AIDE POSITION
Statement of the Matter
In late 1972 the Engineering Department reorganized into two
sections (Current Development and Engineering Design) to better
serve the needs of the newly developing areas of Carlsbad.
Since that time there has been a steadily increasing workload
in City Contracts and Traffic Engineering which is the responsi-
bility of the Engineering Design Section. This additional work-
load was temporarily shouldered by three (3) CETA employees from
February 1975 to August 1976. The CETA employees have since left
the City for permanent employment witch other agencies. The
departure of the three temporary employees has,impaired the
ability of the design section to provide an acceptable level of
service in all their areas of responsibility: Design, Contract
Administration, Traffic, Street Lighting, Surveying, Mapping,
Annexations, and miscellaneous support actM ties for other
departments.
The addition of one staff person (Senior Engineering Aide) will
provide a permanent staff of five (three Engineers and two aides).
A Department of Finance Request for Transfer of Appropriations
of $6,000 from fund2l-212-0900 to fund 1-127-1110 is on file in
the Finance Department.
EXHIBITS:
1. Memo from City Engineer to Public Works Administrator
2. Resolution No.�1 authorizing the City Manager to add a
Senior Engineering Aide.
I. Department of Finance Request for Transfer, of Appropriations
RECOMMENDATION:
Adopt Resolution No.4p_o authorizing the City Manager to add a
Senior Engineering Aide to Engineering Department Staff.
Council action
12-21-76 Resolution #4067 was adopted, authorizing the City Manager to
add,a Senior Engineering Aide. ;
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ICEZOPAIMU4 - October 25, 1976
_-TO: public works Administrator
FROM: City Engineer
j SUBJECT: NEED FOR ADDITIONAL STAFFING
As you recall, our request for an additional engineer in the
Engineering Design section in this year's budget was "tabled"
vending the termination of the CETA program. Since that time,
with the resignation of Mike King, our last remaining CETA
erimloyee, the need ::or an additional person is readily
aoparant.
Several into restints.things have been occurring over the last
year or so that h:va significantly increased the wort: load of
the 1pgineerini, Design Section, including the following:
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1. Dera1oorz:.t implcr.3n _ation of a cape tal improvements
zngram. •7,vaa: the last few years wise budgeting has
provided canirr.1 ir:+urovemen4 funds for a wide variety
of public in;provemants. Construction projects, such as
the library rrecaanine audition; tennis courts at Laguna
Riviera P;-rl;; rire Station .:o. 3; rcialic access stains
to the beach; traffic sicnal (Tanaracl,/Pio
Pico, Tamarack/ .Carlsbad Boulcvan:, La Costa Avenue/ Isl
Carmino Real; street overlay projects; Elan Avenue
c-%tcnsion; .Magee House; Laguna Riviera Park; Wheelchair
ranos, etc., are all good exanples of projects that are
ue,i-r.eo and/ar administered by tie Design Section.
r 2. Involvement in administering various studies has i^^.reased.
Master Seger Study, Tararack Align ant Study, Ch'ilsiren's
Library Study, as well as the efforts required to keep
pace with the proliferation of outside agency studies
(CPO, CALTRANS, County Flood Control, Coastal Commission,
JAC, VSD, LCWD, etc.).
3. RED TAPE. The amount of paper work generated by State and i
Federal agencies (steadies, reports, rules and regulations
appears to be increasing on an exponential curve.
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MENO to PWA -2- October 25, 1976
4. Traffic Engineering. I have put emphasis on utilizing
Kent wh tson as a "consultant" to the Current Development
Section and Planning -Department:-- Previously Traffic
Engineering was only involved in reviewing ��e���xis_t_i�ng
conditions'and working to correct existing traffic
-safety
deficiencies. our emphasis is now on reviewing prelimi-
nary developmental proposals and detailed construction
plans in order to eliminate safety hazards before they
are constructed. While I am convinced of tfi-e7�ong-range
benefits to this shift in manpower assignments, it bag
reduced the effective work force of the• figineering Design
Section.
over the last year and a half or so, we have managed to "get by"
because of the supplemental staff support from the three CETA,
positions. Now that all three positions are vacant, i would
like to request one additional person for the Engineering
Department.
In analyzing our needs, based on our recent reorganization into
two divisions (1 - t--sion. and Contract Admi.nistration;2 - Traffic
and TransportstL on ^~.gineering) , it is my request to add a Senior
Engineering AiCe to the staff instead of a Civil Engineering
Assistant. The sta:7fing would be as follows:
Desicn and Contract Administration
1 Civil Engineering Associate
1 Civil Engineering Pssistant
I Senior Engineering Aide (new position requested)
3
Traffic and Transi)ortation
1 Civil Engineering Assistant (future I.^sociate level)
I Engineering Aide
2
The rest of the organization would remain the same, although in
the near future the Construction Inspection may require an
additional inspector due to the wide range of construction
activities anticipated in the future (public and private
development).
MEMO to PWA -3- o8tober 25, 1976
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After you have had a chance to review this request, it may be
appropriate to r.eet with the -City Manager to discuss staffing
in the Engineering Department..
DRIGINAL SIGNED -BY
x1M07HY C. FLANAGAN
Tin Flanagan
City Engineer
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RESOLUT1014 NO. 4067
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CARLSBAD A17"NORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ADD ONE
SENIOR ENGINEERING AIDE TO THE ENGINEERING DEPART-
MENT STAFF.
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Carlsbad
as follows:
1. That the City Manager is authorized to add one Senior
Engineering Aide to the Engineering Department Staff.
2. That a Department of. Finance Request for Fund Transfer
of Appropriation No. 13 is on file in said Department.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND 70OPTED at a regular meeting of the
(Carlsbad- City Council held on the 21st, day of December ,1976
by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen Frazee, Lewis, Packard and Skotnicki
NOES: None
ABSENT: Councilwoman Casler
0 R C. FRAZEE,eMayor
ATTEST:
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