Can you poll
counties to see if other counties keep track of hiring costs in separate
accounts other than a general administrative account? And if they do,
what all they keep track of (advertising, Merit System annual cost, back ground
checks, new worker training costs (reg, travel, meals, hotel room) etc)?
Thanks.
Marlene
Remmel
Fiscal
Supervisor
114
N Holcombe Ave Ste 180
Litchfield
MN 55355-2273
320-693-5300
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13 comments:
We do not keep track of hiring costs separately, although maybe that would be a good idea, It might be depressing! Seems we are always hiring, training and then recruiting and hiring again.
Olmsted does not track these costs separately.
Rice County does not track these costs separately.
Lisa Stadler
Clearwater County does not track these costs separately.
Clay County does not track these costs separately.
Red Lake County and Norman County do not track these costs separately.
Carlton does not track these costs. As our wage scale becomes less competitive I'm sure we will be experiencing more turnover. Generally we have had minimal turnover in all positions until this last year -Kevin
Benton does not track these costs separately.
Wabasha County doesn't track it separately.
Grant County historically does not track, but we are trying new accounts for tracking this year. We made accounts for mandatory trainings/meeting and staff development. Mandatory is for meals/fees/lodging that is required for employment, CORE, MAXIS, SSIS new worker, etc. Staff development is for meals/fees/lodging for conferences, meetings, trainings that are not required for employment. I do think there is gray area within these 2, such as SSIS worker training... it's not mandatory, but benefits the agency. Meals that run through payroll are not counted in either of these accounts. We are also creating a spreadsheet for tracking and each staff has an amount for staff development, if they need more, they will have to work within their unit to share rooms or share their budget if not using. This is all mostly because we've always said yes to everything and we are tightening our budget because of a huge rent increase this year with our new space/building.
We do not track the cost separate. I like the thought of putting a RPT code on it if we felt we wanted to track that. For smaller counties it probably would not take much to download the advertising and training expenses from IFS or any accounting system and sort out in Excel. We could add additional chart of accounts too.
Sherburne does not track these costs separately.
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