Title
Approving an ordinance on second reading with the caption reading: An ordinance of the City of Pflugerville, Texas, adopting the third amendment to the FY22 Budget for the City of Pflugerville; and providing an effective date.
Summary
The City's Charter, Section 9.04(a), allows for amendments to the budget for transfers of unencumbered appropriations between departments and supplemental appropriations when revenues are available. During the fiscal year, it may be necessary to amend the approved budget to allow for expenditures and revenues that were not anticipated at the time of budget approval.
The third budget amendment for FY22 requests the addition of 19 full-time positions, cost of benefits, and related operating costs. The requests also includes a salary adjustment for 3 positions with in the Finance Department. The budget appropriations needed to fund the remaining portion of the current fiscal year is calculated at 3 months.
Given the current and future needs of our rapidly-growing community, we estimate more than 40 new positions to be proposed as part of the FY23 budget to help ensure our ability to continue to provide the high-level of services our citizens expect and deserve, as well as to deliver the numerous capital projects approved by voters.
The traditional approach for requesting additional personnel is to include proposed positions as part of the annual budgeting process. However, we are not operating in a traditional environment - we are in a hyper-competitive recruitment and retention market like we have never seen before. With this in mind,staff proposes a non-traditional approach by requesting advanced authorization of what staff has determined to be the 19 most critical and hard-to-fill positions. The intent of this action is to strengthen the City’s recruitment position by allowing for advertisement during the summer when potential candidates are generally more mobile and prior to October when most other cities will begin ...
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