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CITY OF HOUSTON - CITY COUNCIL
Meeting Date: 4/18/2017
ALL
Item Creation Date: 3/16/2017
HFD Amend Personnel Ordinance - Airport Positions
Agenda Item#: 25.
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| | | | | | | | Summary:
ORDINANCE amending Exhibit “A” of the City of Houston Ordinance No. 2015-642 to add four (4) Engineer Operator positions, delete four (4) Firefighter positions, and substituting the amended exhibit as part of the current Houston Fire Department Classified Personnel Ordinance; providing a repealer; providing for severability |
| | | | | | | | Background:
The Chief of the Houston Fire Department and the Director of the Houston Airport System request that Council approve an Ordinance authorizing the amendment of the Classified Personnel Ordinance for the Houston Fire Department to add (4) Engineer/Operator Incident Command Technician and delete (4) Firefighter position for each of the four shifts.
SPECIFIC EXPLANATION:
The Chief of the Houston Fire Department ("HFD") and the Director of the Houston Airport System ("HAS") request that Council approve an Ordinance authorizing the amendment of the Classified Personnel Ordinance for the Houston Fire Department to add one (1) Engineer/Operator ("E/0") to cover each of the four shifts (4 total Engineer/Operator positions) to function as an Incident Command Technician ("ICT"). This addition is for the District Chief response vehicle, which was added In July 2015 at Fire Station 54 at Bush Intercontinental Airport, to increase the level of incident command supervision. Standard staffing on a District Chief response vehicle is one District Chief and one E/0 functioning as an ICT. The four additional E/0 positions requested will allow HFD to utilize this standard staffing arrangement, freeing up more senior employees who had been serving as JCT to instead perform higher classification work.
In order to keep the Aircraft Rescue Flrefighting (ARFF) total headcount at current levels HFD and HAS also request to delete one corresponding (1) Firefighter positlon for each of the four shifts (4 total firefighter positions). This does not result in the termination of any currently employed firefighters.
| Amendments to current Fire Department Classified Personnel Ordinance |
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# of Current Classified Positions |
Amount Change |
Proposed # of Classified Positions |
| Engineer Operators |
1100 |
+4 |
1104 |
| Firefighters |
2150 |
-4 |
2146 |
| FY2017 Incremental Cost with change effective date of March 13, 2017 |
| 4 FTEs (Gross, FICA, Pension) |
$ 15,822.00 |
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FY2018 and out years Annual Cost
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| 4 FTEs (Gross, FICA, Pension) |
$ 58,996.00 |
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| | | | | | | | Prior Council Action:
June 24, 2015 Ordinance No. 2015-642 |
| | | | | | | | Amount of Funding:
$22,190.04 General Fund (1000)
Fiscal Note:
Funding is provided in the FY2017 operating budget for HFD. Costs associated with the creation of the 4 airport positions will be reimbursed by HAS. |
| | | | | | | | Contact Information:
Bryan Sky-Eagle
Phone: 832-394-6762 |
| ATTACHMENTS: | | Description | Type | | Signed RCA | Signed Cover sheet |
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