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67. PLANNING/COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT POSITION REQUEST Approve the creation of an Unclassified position (Planning/Communications Manager) in the Emergency Management Department. This position request is necessary due to the fact that the current Planning Supervisor is participating in the new Post Employment Health Enhancement (Retirement) Program (PEHPEP) which requires that the current position (#326) be eliminated. Creation of this position is necessary because the department needs a Communications Manager and is reorganizing to combine the functions of the Planning Supervisor with the Communications Manager. Approve an exemption to the PEHPEP in order to recruit for the newly created Unclassified Planning/Communications Manager position with the range of $31.00/Hour to $37.78/Hour. Position #326, in the Emergency Management Department, is being inactivated due to the previous incumbent’s participation in the 2009 Retirement Health Enhancement Program. This position’s current attributes are as follows: MRT: Planning Supervisor Status: Unclassified Budgeted Rate: $33.60 Due to the reorganization, a Planning/Communications Manager is necessary. The Emergency Management Department feels it necessary to replace position #326 with a new position. The new position’s attributes will be as follows: MRT: Planning Supervisor Status: Unclassified Budgeted Rate: $37.78 Due to the impending retirement of a Planning Supervisor (#326), the department will eliminate a vacant Planner position (#15271) and will reorganize with the creation of a Planning/Communications Manager position. This will result in achieving at least $6,989 in savings as required under the 2009 Retirement Health Enhancement Program. Since Emergency Management has already achieved $120,310 in budgetary reductions between the General Fund and the Emergency Management Fund for FY 2010, no further reductions are required at this time. (C-15-09-020-M-00)