City manager proposes job consolidation
From the WCLO newsroom:
The Janesville city manager has a plan to consolidate jobs.
In a memo to the City Council, City Manager Eric Levitt recommends eliminating four vacant positions and broadening the scope of three others, which would provide a cost savings of $275,000 in 2010.
The change would take effect this year, but the positions are included in the 2009 budget. The positions on the chopping block include the Assistant Director of Administrative Services, Director of Leisure Services, Economic Development Assistant and Sustainability Coordinator.
The city would recreate the combined position of Assistant City Manager and Administrative Services Director. The Management Assistant and two Management Analysts would have more responsibilities. The memo states they would work directly with the Economic Development Director, work on sustainability issues, work on Public Works projects, work on the budget, work with Neighborhood Services and Leisure Services and continue to work on community information programming.
The City Council is scheduled to act on the proposal Monday.
Apr 10, 2009 at 10:37 a.m.
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Administrative Services is finance & accounting; the position is the assistant to Jay Winzenz. Leisure Services is parks & recreation; the position was held by Mike Williams. Economic Development markets Janesville to businesses and assists those that expand here; it's run by Doug Venable, who loses his assistant and has to share. Sustainability Coordinator (PT) is mainly recycling.
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This is all in the budget on the city's site, by the way. You can find the departments and what they do here:
http://www.ci.janesville.wi.us/Citysite/...
Apr 10, 2009 at 7:11 a.m.
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"Assistant Director of Administrative Services, Director of Leisure Services, Economic Development Assistant and Sustainability Coordinator". Huh?!? Who are all these people?!? And what do they do? (Or what did they do?)
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