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Presenters:
Kathleen Hinman, HR Director
Jason Bavuso, HR Manager
▪FY23-24 Proposed Budget Presentation
Budget Committee Meeting | May 22, 2023
Department Overview
Mission: We partner to
develop people and an
organization to meet the
vision and objectives of
Deschutes County.
Department Overview
•Employment Services
•Talent Acquisition
•Classification &
Compensation
•Performance Development
•Employee & Labor Relations
•Benefits & Leave
Administration
Department Accomplishments
•Enhanced HR support and
expertise through the
transition to HR Business
Partner model, departments
and offices are assigned
dedicated HR staff.
•New HR Manager position
filled, resulting in 3 staff
promotions.
•Succession planning and
transfer of knowledge.
Department Accomplishments
•On pace to complete over 300 recruitments this Fiscal Year.
•Completed 2 Director level recruitments.
Department Accomplishments
•Increased collaboration with
union partners, foster a
positive relationship among
employees and employer.
•Concurrently bargained
three successor collective
bargaining agreements.
•DCDAA –Deputy District
Attorneys
•FOPPO –Parole & Probation
Officers
•IUOE –Road and Solid Waste
Departments
FY 23-24 Department Budget Details
Total Budget = $2,150,360
Budget Change = 10.80%
Department charges are based
on budgeted FTE.
23-24 RESOURCES
FY 23-24 Department Budget Details
Personnel Services:
Succession planning for an
upcoming retirement.
Materials and Services:
Increase in cost of services
generally and especially for
training and education
services.
23-24 REQUIREMENTS
FY 23-24 Department Fiscal Issues
•Increased cost of living and rising mortgage rates will continue to be a factor in attracting talent to the area.
•Balance providing robust and competitive health insurance and benefits package while managing the surging costs of health care.
•Spiking costs in cost of living, materials, and services, specifically in performance development and training.
•Ensuring the Health Benefit Fund reserve stays within policy requirements, given costs of health care are increasing.
Short-term Fiscal Issues Long-term Fiscal Issues
Current Challenges and Future Initiatives
•Employee Performance
Review Modernization
•Paid Leave Oregon
Integration
•Policy and Rules Updates
•RFPs for Pharmacy Benefit
Manager and Deferred
Compensation (457 plans)
•Transferring and replacing knowledge post staff retirement.
•Manual processes within Leave program administration.
•Manual processes around benefits enrollment, specifically retiree health insurance administration.
Challenges Future Initiatives
Health Benefits (Fund 675)
•The impacts of inflation, supply chain disruptions, historic
labor shortages, and delayed care are creating significant
economic challenges for the entire industry.
FY 23-24 Division Budget Details
•Beginning working capital
projected at $5.7M and ending
near $3.8M.
•The department rate is being
increased by 11% this FY with
plans to increase by 25%+ in
the following year.
•Employee premium cost-shares
typically make up 5.5% of the
full premium rate.
23-24 RESOURCES
As of March 2023
FY 23-24 Division Budget Details
•Claim spend has not returned to pre-pandemic increases as anticipated.
•Claim spend average year over year pre-pandemic was 3.5%, now averaging 10.8%.
•FY22 alone saw a 29.3% cost increase.
•Covered lives on the plan increased at a higher rate.
23-24 REQUIREMENTS
As of March 2023
Thank you
The Deschutes County Human Resources Team
Make the Work You Do Matter.