Additional Notices of Motion to be presented to Council on Tuesday - expensive

 By Pepper Parr

November 27th, 2023

BURLINGTON, ON

 

It appears the Councillor Sharman gave some second thought to the Notices of Motion he hastily withdrew during the marathon Standing Committee last week.

He is asking that several be put back in – what is that going to do to the 4.99% the Mayor had her heart set on.

Not much in the way of detail

Motion for Council to Consider:

 Add Burlington Digital Services, Manager of Experience Strategy and Design

$190,512.00 to 2024 budget (#30)

Reason:

All items if left not accommodated will result in the following: Digital transformation stagnation, workforce enablement challenges, service delivery inefficiencies, underutilized investments, security and compliance risks, impaired organizational performance, reduced engagement in service design and improvement, deterioration of employee experience, difficulty in adapting to technology changes, challenges in system maintenance and upgrades.

Approved as per form by the City Clerk,

Reviewed by the City Manager – In accordance with the Code of Good Governance, Council-Staff Relations Policy and an assessment of the internal capacity within the City to complete the work based on a specific target date (quarter/year).

Motion for Council to Consider:

 Add, Burlington Digital Services, Application Analyst Workday/EAMS, $ 136,391.00 to 2024 budget (#33).

Reason:

If left not accommodated will result in digital transformation stagnation, workforce enablement challenges, service delivery inefficiencies, underutilized investments, security and compliance risks, impaired organizational performance, reduced engagement in service design and improvement, deterioration of employee experience, difficulty in adapting to technology changes, challenges in system maintenance and upgrades.

Approved as per form by the City Clerk,

Reviewed by the City Manager – In accordance with the Code of Good Governance, Council-Staff Relations Policy and an assessment of the internal capacity within the City to complete the work based on a specific target date (quarter/year).

Motion for Council to Consider:

 Add human capital investment in stabilizing operations, Analyst – Compensation ,

$124,512.00 to 2024 budget (#43).

Reason:

This position is part of the Human Capital Investments in Stabilizing Operations investment to focus on improving the city’s capability and performance, and implementing the city’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy and Corporate Learning and Development.

Approved as per form by the City Clerk,

Reviewed by the City Manager – In accordance with the Code of Good Governance, Council-Staff Relations Policy and an assessment of the internal capacity within the City to complete the work based on a specific target date (quarter/year).

Motion for Council to Consider:

 Add human capital investment in stabilizing operations, Manager Organizational Development , $157,373.00 to 2024 budget (#47).

Reason:

 This position is part of he Human Capital Investments in Stabilizing Operations investment to focus on improving the city’s capability and performance, and implementing the city’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy and Corporate Learning and Development.

It was identified by staff as one of the top priority positions in response to Staff Direction (SD-37-23) requesting prioritization of new staff positions, released after the presentation of the Mayor’s Budget. See page 63 of the budget book for additional details.

Approved as per form by the City Clerk,

Reviewed by the City Manager – In accordance with the Code of Good Governance, Council-Staff Relations Policy and an assessment of the internal capacity within the City to complete the work based on a specific target date (quarter/year).

Motion for Council to Consider:

 Reduce $100,000.00 from “Multi-year Community Investment Funding (Report CM-03-22)” from the mayor’s budget.

Reason:

Recommend that a decision on the above 2024 budget provision be deferred until staff can formally investigate the development and application of new financing tools including those as outlined in recent BLP workshop held on Sept 18th in support of future community development and deliver attainable housing.

Approved as per form by the City Clerk,

Reviewed by the City Manager – In accordance with the Code of Good Governance, Council-Staff Relations Policy and an assessment of the internal capacity within the City to complete the work based on a specific target date (quarter/year).

Motion for Council to Consider:

 Add Operator – Recreation Services 4 PT roles converted to FT with a cost of $100,00 to the 2024 budget funded with a reallocation of the $100,000 base budget increase for Maintaining Recreational Assets as referenced in Appendix A of the Mayor’s Budget Report MO-02-23. This results in no tax increase.

Reason:

 Re-allocation of funds already accounted for in Mayor’s budget.

Approved as per form by the City Clerk,

Reviewed by the City Manager – In accordance with the Code of Good Governance, Council-Staff Relations Policy and an assessment of the internal capacity within the City to complete the work based on a specific target date (quarter/year).

The reasons given for a $136k plus add on are very telling.  Is that how bad it really is?  If left not accommodated will result in digital transformation stagnation, workforce enablement challenges, service delivery inefficiencies, underutilized investments, security and compliance risks, impaired organizational performance, reduced engagement in service design and improvement, deterioration of employee experience, difficulty in adapting to technology changes, challenges in system maintenance and upgrades.