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Too Board of County Commissioners
From* Decorah Anderson, Assistant Director — Human Resources
RE: 2o22Enhancem'ent Fund for DCL
Date: 10/24/2022
Dept* DCL- Renew
C(;: Dell Anderson
Request Summary:
As part of the Budget Reconciliation package, the House and Senate negotiated and released a
Supplemental Budget for Developmental Disabilities (DD) Supportive Living Program which resulted
in a 23% increase to Supportive Living providers.
The intent of this increase is to provide hourly wage increases for employees of community residential
services providing direct care to DD clients.
After taking in account the potential overhead and benefit expenses (9%), and the 2.68% COLA that
was just granted, the department is requesting to allocate 11__.3.2% to the base wage for all DCL
employees. The base rate will go from $15-76 to $17-54.
For follow-up on DCL increase:
* 9% towards employee benefits and operational expenses of the DCL Program.
* 14% towards the salaries for all dcl employees across the board.
—23%.
Since the team received the 2.68% cola the recommendation from finance is that we reduce the 14% to 11.32%
across the board. Then in January 2023 to decide on what potential cola amount could be given at that time, but
it will not match CPI of possible 8%.
HR Director Recommendations:
I have reviewed this request along with any applicable policy Fx_1 I Recommend Approval
and contact language. E] I do not Recommend Approval
Other Factors:
The funds are provided by the state throuorh a grant.
- There is no impact on the county general fund to implement this request.
- The purpose is for retention of current staff, and recruitment of new staff to DCL.
- The wage enhancement pa-vments are scheduled to be allocated for July 1, 2022.
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