The Mount Vernon City Council has begun examining ordinances to establish assistant director positions for Utilities and to restructure staffing within the department.
The proposed ordinance would introduce an assistant director for Water and another for Maintenance, as outlined in the Mount Vernon City Council's meeting agenda for Dec. 11. The starting salaries for these roles are set at $72,000, with yearly increments beginning at $400 and increasing after five years of service.
As per the Mount Vernon City Council's meeting agenda for Dec. 11, these assistant director roles, being supervisory positions, will be on-call when required without any provision for overtime pay, compensatory time off or flex time for those additional hours.
In addition to this, the City Council is also considering a proposal to modify the number of hourly employees in its Division of Water and Wastewater. According to the same meeting agenda, changes would result in one chief wastewater operator at the wastewater plant and nine operations and maintenance positions. The water plant would retain a chief water operator while the number of operations and maintenance technicians would rise from six and a half to seven.
Further adjustments are proposed in distribution and collection. An additional utility operations crew chief would be added, bringing the total to three as per the Mount Vernon City Council's meeting agenda for Dec. 11. The ordinance would also cap public utility technicians at 11, down from 13 previously. However, the number of customer support specialists II in the billing office would remain unchanged at four.
