Upon Executive Director Hale's retirement, the Board promoted Todd Muck from Deputy Executive Director to Executive Director. In order to fill the vacancy of the Deputy Executive Director, an organizational change is proposed to replace the Deputy Executive Director position with two new positions: Director of Planning and Director of Programing and Project Delivery.  A budget amendment is required to modify the Agency's staff position classification list and salary ranges. 

This budget amendment would replace the Deputy Executive Director position in the Agency's adopted budget with two new Director positions at a lower salary than the Deputy Executive Director range. The two new Director positions would be classified as management employees including exempt status and benefits. The salary range for the two new positions would be the same as the current salary range for Director of Finance and Administration.   

Anticipated promotion of two current Principal Planners to the new Director positions and subsequent hiring of new staff in junior positions within the Planner classification range will result in an estimated budget savings of $50,424 in this fiscal year. Future raises and promotions will likely erode this cost savings over an undetermined period of time. 

The transition to a new Executive Director is an opportune time to implement other changes to the Agency's organizational structure. Evaluating options to fill the vacant Deputy Executive Director position led to the current recommendation to split the Deputy Executive Director's duties between two new positions: Director of Planning and Director of Programming and Project Delivery. Under direction of the Executive Director, the Director positions will be responsible for directing and supervising the Agency's planning and engineering staff. Dividing the Deputy Executive Director's duties will allow the new Directors to strengthen supervisorial skills while continuing to work directly in their respective areas of technical expertise.   

The current salary range for Director of Finance and Administration is being used because it is in between the Principal Planner and Deputy Executive Director ranges. There is also consistency between the job responsibilities and number of employees to be supervised by the new Director positions and the current Director of Finance and Administration. 

The recommended change to the Agency's organizational structure provides the added benefit of strengthening succession planning by providing additional opportunity for current staff to develop and excel in management roles. 

A diagram of the proposed staff organizational structure is attached.