COUNCIL APPROVES 3 NEW POSITIONS; ADDITIONS WILL RUN NEW CITY PROGRAMS.Byline: Teresa Jimenez Daily News Staff Writer City administrators are preparing to hire new managers and technicians as part of a restructuring restructuring - The transformation from one representation form to another at the same relative abstraction level, while preserving the subject system's external behaviour (functionality and semantics). that will allow for better oversight
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The City Council on Tuesday approved three new positions and two upgraded posts at a cost of $175,468 to handle added city responsibilities such as the new Santa Clarita Sports Complex, Central Park and landscape maintenance districts taken over from Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County, said Ken Pulskamp, assistant city manager. ``Our population's growing, our programs are growing and our responsibilities are growing,'' Pulskamp said. ``We do everything we can to not hire employees. But in this situation we felt it was necessary.'' The city expects to fill the posts within the next three months, and the positions may be posted nationally, locally or among the city staff depending on the demands of the job, Pulskamp said. Funding for the new posts will be incorporated into the general fund after a mid-fiscal year budget review in December. Some of the changes fit naturally with changes in staff, Pulskamp said. For example, Parks, Recreation and Community Services Manager John Danielson left for a job elsewhere, allowing the city to restructure the department. Instead of a manager, the responsibilities will be split between a parks superintendent and a recreation superintendent, Pulskamp said. The two positions will ease the workload The term workload can refer to a number of different yet related entities. An amount of labor While a precise definition of a workload is elusive, a commonly accepted definition is the hypothetical relationship between a group or individual human operator and task demands. in a department that has grown substantially, Pulskamp said. There has been a 12.5 percent growth in recreation programming every year since 1992, he said. In the Field Services Department, a facilities maintenance manager position will be created, Pulskamp said. Demands on that department also have grown with increased park space and a $5 million landscape maintenance district, he said. In the Transportation and Engineering Services Department, a new Geographic Information System geographic information system (GIS) Computerized system that relates and displays data collected from a geographic entity in the form of a map. The ability of GIS to overlay existing data with new information and display it in colour on a computer screen is used primarily to division will be created that involves the development of a new database, Pulskamp said. A new position of GIS (1) (Geographic Information System) An information system that deals with spatial information. Often called "mapping software," it links attributes and characteristics of an area to its geographic location. coordinator will be added, and two existing positions will be reclassified to the new division, he said. GIS tracks land-based data such as the location of city trees and sewers and dates of upkeep, Pulskamp said. |
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