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Editor’s Note 08/29/24: The submissions above have been marked as “Completed”. As written it is unclear what specific searchable public records the sender would like to receive.
[REQUEST #1]
– “… Pay Plan by position and employee name for the 2024- 2025 fiscal year.”
– “… annual leave accrual rates by years of service for the 2024- 2025 fiscal year.”Please review the “Pay Plan” document from June 2023 on the County’s website:
https://nc-burkecounty.civicplus.com/1249/Open-Enrollment-Forms
https://www.burkenc.org/DocumentCenter/View/261/Burke-County-Pay-Plan-PDFIt is unclear if you’d like to receive an updated version of that “Pay Plan” document (to include additional fields you’d like the County to add)? Or, if you might like to receive a list of all current employees’ names / positions / hire dates / salaries, and current annual PTO/Sick/Vacation leave accrual rate for each employee?
[REQUEST #2]– “… current organizational chart for Burke County, NC DSS.”
– “Please include all staff (full and part time) and their position.”
– “Please provide current job descriptions for each position separated by department listing pay range and hiring range for Burke County DSS.”We interpret this to be a multi-part request for (A) current DSS organizational chart, (B) list of all current DSS employees’ names and job positions, (C) a general list of all Burke County departments, job positions, and descriptions / pay range for each. However, this is unclear.
In regard to the DSS “organizational chart” — please review what Burke County provided to us in 2019:
Request for Burke County, NC DSS Organizational ChartDSS doesn’t seem to have a current online version of their org. chart as they do with the County Government in general. If we request this document again in 2024, we expect we might just be provided with the same type of document as in 2019 (unless the County is able/willing to include additional fields you’d like added). We just wanted to note this possibility for your consideration when re-writing the request.
Additionally. Please note:
A request for basic salary data typically includes employee first / last name, date of hire, current position / title / department, and current salary (hourly wage, rate, or salary — depending what pay structure applies to that employee). In the future we’ll be happy to send in new request(s) for salary or other pay data, but just wanted to note that for your consideration when writing any future requests.
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