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66. CREATE PARK MAINTENANCE WORKER POSITION FOLLOWING POST EMPLOYMENT HEALTH ENHANCEMENT RETIREMENT Approve the creation of a classified position (General Maintenance Worker) in the Parks & Recreation Department Lake Pleasant Services Fund (240). This position request is necessary due to the fact that a current General Maintenance Worker (working title Park Maintenance Worker) is participating in the new Post Employment Health Enhancement (Retirement) Program (PEHEP) which requires that the current position (#01434) be eliminated. Creation of this position is necessary because Lake Pleasant Regional Park has a 24-hour per day, 7-day per week, 365-day per year operation with only five General Maintenance Worker positions to manage 14,000 acres of land, camp sites, day-use areas, shoreline and more. The department can not operate without all of these positions. Consistent with the policy, the new position will be recruited at or below the mid-point of the current market range, which will realize minimum required savings of $6,550.96 annually over the retiring employee who is currently budgeted at the maximum of the range. Position 1434, in the Parks & Recreation Department, was inactivated due to the previous incumbent’s participation in the 2009 Retirement Health Enhancement Program. This position’s current attributes are as follows: MRT: General Maintenance Worker Status: Classified Budgeted Rate: $19.68 Due to the nature of this position, the Parks & Recreation Department feels it necessary to replace position 1434 with a new position. The new position’s attributes will be as follows: MRT: General Maintenance Worker Status: Classified Budgeted Rate: $16.53 (C-30-09-029-M-00)