At its Wednesday meeting, Bloomington’s city council created three new positions in the office of the mayor and eliminated three existing jobs.
Created through an amendment of this year’s salary ordinance were positions with the following titles: special assistant to the mayor, executive office manager, and legislative coordinator.
Eliminated were three existing positions: director of innovation, chief of staff, and administrative coordinator.
The count of positions in the mayor’s office stayed the same, but still worked out to an overall savings of about $26,000 per year, because two of the three positions have a lower salary grade classification than the existing jobs.
The council also approved a change in the salary grade for the existing sidewalk coordinator in the public works department, which means around $3,900 more for the position.
The reason for the change in the sidewalk position was, according to human resources director Sharr Pechac, “to better reflect the importance of this position to the city and to better align with other similar positions within public works.”
The council also approved the creation of a new position in public works called the facility asset and operations coordinator, to administer the asset management software system and the proper assignment of work orders. The total fiscal impact (benefits and salary) is expected to be about $81,144. Continue reading “New legislative coordinator position in Bloomington mayor’s office among others OK’d by city council”
