Agenda Item No. 5
CITY COUNCIL STAFF REPORT
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council DATE: July 25, 2022 FROM: Matthew Bronson, City Manager
PREPARED BY: Karla Mattocks, Human Resources / Management Analyst John Peters, Chief of Police
SUBJECT: Police Department Conversion of Full-Time Records/Property Technician Position to One Full-Time and One Part-Time Community Services Technician I Positions
RECOMMENDATION
Adopt the Resolution authorizing the Police Department to convert one Full-Time Records/Property Technician position into one Full-Time and one Part-Time Community Services Technician I positions.
BACKGROUND
On September 21, 2020, the Council authorized the creation of the Community Services Technician I/II (CST) position within the Police Department. The CST position is a non-sworn position that handles non-emergency calls for service in the city. Typical non-emergency calls for service that a non-sworn Community Services Technician handles include:
Parking Violations Abandoned Vehicles / 72 Hour Violations Lost/Found Property Graffiti Reports
Minor Vandalism Reports Petty Theft Reports
Fingerprinting Vacation / Extra Patrol Checks
Code Compliance Investigations Sex Offender Registrations Homeless Outreach Administrative Tasks
The September 21, 2020, staff report estimated that the CST position could handle approximately 1,200 calls for service for patrol officers. However, in 2021, the CST handled 1,669 calls for service for the Patrol Division, which was much more than anticipated and allowed patrol officers to concentrate on crime calls for service and proactive police patrols. The success of the CST program to date led to the belief that additional success could be achieved by adding more CSTs to the Police Department.
The FY 2022-23 Police Department staffing allocation includes three Records/Property Technician positions and one CST II position. In August 2022, one of the Records/Property Technician positions will become vacant due to a planned employee resignation. Staff reviewed the Records/Property program workload and determined the duties could be comfortably handled with two Records/Property Technicians. Staff further reviewed the possibility of adding one parttime CST to assist the weekend Patrol Bureau and one full-time CST to assist the weekday Detective Bureau. Staff determined it would be beneficial to convert the Records/Property Technician position into one full-time and one part-time CST within the cost of the Staff Report: Conversion of Records/Property Technician to Community Services Technicians Page 2 July 25, 2022
Records/Property Technician position. This action would bring the total allocation of CST positions in the Police Department from 1 to 2.5 positions.
Staff has met and conferred with the Grover Beach Police Officers’ Association (GBPOA) who is the recognized bargaining unit that represents Records/Property Technicians and they agreed to the re-allocation of positions as proposed. The funding for the CST positions will come from the existing funding for the third Records/Property Technician position.
FISCAL IMPACT
The converting of one Records/Property Technician position to one Full-Time and one Part-Time Community Services Technician I positions will be absorbed in the current FY 2022-23 Police Department budget.
ALTERNATIVES
The Council has the following alternatives to consider:
1. Adopt the Resolution authorizing the Police Department to convert one Records/Property Technician position to one Full-Time and one Part-Time Community Services Technician I positions; or
2. Provide alternative direction to staff.
PUBLIC NOTIFICATION
The agenda was posted in accordance with the Brown Act. A courtesy copy of this staff report and the meeting agenda were provided to the Grover Beach Police Officers’ Association.
Attachments
1. Resolution
Attachment 1
RESOLUTION NO. 22-__
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GROVER
BEACH, CALIFORNIA AUTHORIZING THE CONVERSION OF ONE FULLTIME RECORDS/PROPERTY TECHNICIAN POSITION INTO ONE FULLTIME AND ONE PART-TIME COMMUNITY SERVICES TECHNICAN
POSITIONS
WHEREAS, on September 21, 2020, the City Council authorized the creation of the Community Services Technician I/II (CST) program within the Police Department; and WHEREAS, the Police Department statistical data for the first year of the CST program showed the program was more successful than anticipated with the one CST handling 1,669 calls for service in the Patrol Bureau; and
WHEREAS, the Police Department staffing allocation in the Records/Property Bureau for FY 2022-23 is three full-time employees, but will be reduced to two full-time employees in August 2022 due to a planned employee resignation; and
WHEREAS, the Police Department desires to utilize the existing Records/Property staffing budget to create one full-time and one part-time CST positions to assist the Patrol and Detective Bureaus.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council does hereby authorize the Police Department to convert one Records/Property Technician position to one full-time and one part-time Community Services Technician I positions.
On motion by _____________, second by ______________, and on the following rollcall vote, to wit:
AYES: Council Members -
NOES: Council Members -
ABSENT: Council Members -
ABSTAIN: Council Members -
the foregoing Resolution was PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED at the Regular Meeting of the City Council of the City of Grover Beach, California, this 25th day of July, 2022. _________________________________
JEFF LEE, MAYOR
ATTEST:
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WENDI SIMS, CITY CLERK
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