AN ORDINANCE relating to employee referral bonuses for nonrepresented county employees for referring employees to the positions of deputy sheriff, corrections officer and detention officer; and establishing an expiration date.
Thank you. And with our vote, we have approved proposed motion 2020 20269. We will send this to the full council without recommendation. And with that, we will now go on to our next item on our agenda. Number six, proposed ordinance 2020 20300. And this one relates to referral bonuses for non represented county employees, for referring employees to the positions of deputy sheriff, corrections officer and detention officer. And we have Jeff Mumm from our central staff to provide the briefing on this item. We are also joined by Richard Hayes from the Department of Human Resources. So with that, Jeff, please proceed. And I think it starts on page 16. That is correct. Madam Chair. Thank you. Chair corrals for the record, Jeff, ma'am, chief policy officer for the County Council. So as you pointed out, the STACK report for this item starts on page 16 and this is proposed ordinance 2020 203, 100. This would offer referral bonuses of $5,000 to county employees who refer candidates who are then successfully hired and serve as correction officers, detention officers and sheriff deputies. This would apply to non representing employees and it is substantively identical to the proposals that the Council approved in July for the represented employees. And just as a refresher, the provisions of the the proposed ordinance are that only one bonus would be offered to an employee for referring a successful candidate. Those candidates would have to not only be hired by the departments, but also complete the probationary period before the bonus would be paid out. Employees cannot refer themselves to be employed, to be hired as a as a deputy or corrections officer, detention officer. And also, if it's your job to recruit people for this position, you're not you wouldn't be eligible for the bonus at C at the it expires on December 31st, 2022. So candidates would have to have their applications in by that day and is expected because they would have to be hired and then go through the probationary period that the payouts won't happen until 2023. And there is also a technical strike or amendment to the underlying ordinance, but that's the summary and happy to answer any questions. Thank you, Jeff, very much. Are there any questions? Okay with that. This measure is sponsored by Council Members Bill Dutchie and done. And Councilmember Bill, do you would you like to make the motion and speak to the happy. To move approval of the motion with a to pass recommendation or ordinance for the do pass recommendation. And just as was said, we've already done this for the represented employee. So represented employees who meet the criteria that were just described throughout King County are currently now or soon will be eligible for this bonus and this will add non represented employee. So now we're expanding the group of people who can have this incentive to refer folks. I will just say that as we have been just talking about, one of the root causes, one of the key root causes of the challenges we're seeing in juvenile detention and adult detention and in the sheriff's office is a real large vacancy rate. And what we can do here at the council is we set policy, we set law, we set budgets, and so we can help to provide funding to incentivize filling those holes. I'm very happy to support this. I want to say that as we go into the biennial budget process in September and beyond, we now have hiring incentives in place for these kind of headhunting hiring incentives, but also just incentives for people to take the jobs we may have to. Given what's going on out in the world, we may have to revisit the amounts we may need to make these more attractive. And I really hope that we talk about that during the budget process. But this is a good step for now and I urge your support. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Bowdich. And we we do have an amendment and I believe that's a striking amendment. Or is that a technical? It's a it is both. It is a technical striking amendment. It clarifies some language and then it pulls in language from the previous agreements just to show an example of there's a job fair example, for example, of just to clarify what type of work disqualifies you for the bonus. Okay. Thank you. Jeff. And I should have brought up again that Mr. Richard Hayes is with us from the Department of Human Resources. I don't know if Richard would like to say anything or available for questions. For the record, Richard Hayes, a senior policy adviser in the Department of Human Resources. And no, I don't have anything to add, but I would urge your support. Okay. Thank you. Are there any questions of Mr. Hayes? Have a lengthy series of questions for Mr. Hayes? No, I'm just kidding. Thank you, council member, for your question. For the record, Rick hired me at King County many years ago. Yeah, I've worked for him before, so just a little hazy. Welcome. Thank you. Are there any questions among any of the members of the committee? Okay. With that, we have a striking amendment. Would you like to make the motion councilmember do? Yeah, I'm. Move. Adoption of the striking amendment. Any questions or comments? All. All in favor indicate by saying i. I. I. I any oppose say name could be strike an amendment striking technical amendment or technical striking amendment has been adopted. Any further comments? Anything to close Councilmember Bell, do she or I should say Councilmember Dunn as well? Councilmember Janice ISO is a co-sponsor of this legislation. I agree with everything. My good friend and colleague, Councilmember Bell, she said moment ago, but I'm glad, I'm glad we're doing this and we should revisit the amounts as you saw Seattle that a significant increase in theirs as well as we come up to budget. Thanks. Thank you. Okay. And could I clerk please call the roll? Thank you. Count charcoals. Councilmember Baldacci. Councilmember Dombrowski. By. Councilmember Dunn. Hi. Councilmember McDermott. Councilmember Perry. I councilmember up the growth i. Councilmember von Reich Bauer. I Councilmember Zavala. I chair Caldwell's. I. Turco was the vote is eight eyes zero. Noes with Councilmember McDermott excused. Thank you very much. And with our vote we have approved proposed ordinance 2020 20300. As amended, we will send this ordinance with the do pass recommendation for the consent agenda to the September 6th Council meeting. The next item on our agenda is our third briefing on the topic of preventing gun violence.