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CONSENT
Bill No: ACR 61
Author: Beth Gaines (R)
Amended: 6/13/13 in Assembly
Vote: 21
SENATE PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT & RETIREMENT COMM. : 5-0, 8/26/13
AYES: Beall, Walters, Block, Gaines, Yee
SENATE APPROPRIAITONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 77-0, 8/8/13 (Consent) - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : State employee merit awards
SOURCE : California Department of Human Resources
DIGEST : This resolution declares that specified merit award
payments, authorized by the five-member Merit Award Board and
the California Department of Human Resources (CalHR), be made in
amounts up to and including 20% of the first-year savings
generated by each suggestion of the proposed recipients.
ANALYSIS :
Existing law:
1. Authorizes CalHR to make merit awards to current or retired
state employees who:
A. Propose procedures or ideas that are subsequently
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adopted and that result in eliminating or reducing state
expenditures or improving operations, provided the
proposals are placed in effect.
B. Perform special acts or special services in the public
interest.
C. Makes exceptional contributions to the efficiency,
economy or other improvement in the operations of the
state government, by their superior accomplishments.
2. Provides that awards be made pursuant to standards and
procedures established by CalHR, which may adopt rules and
regulations to administer the merit awards program and may
appoint a merit awards board made up of state officers,
employees, or citizens to consider award recipients.
3. Authorizes awards to be paid from the appropriation available
to the state agency affected by the award.
4. Requires that any award over $5,000 have legislative
approval.
This resolution provides that the following merit awards
authorized by the Merit Award Board and CalHR be made as
follows:
1. $4,182, to be shared equally, to Department of Transportation
employees Lawrence Crawford, Glenn Mochel, and Steve Sattler
for suggesting that rocker switches installed in department
vehicles to activate different lighting equipment be
identified by engraving directly onto the switches, rather
than requiring separate labels to be engraved and
subsequently installed on those switches, and to stock a
supply of commonly used relabeled switches, which resulted in
a first-year savings of $45,898.
2. $11,387 to Employment Development Department employee Andrew
Seames who created a macro for use by the department's Tax
and Wage Corrections Group, to reduce repetitive data entries
and expedite the processing of work items when correcting
employer information in the database, which resulted in a
first-year savings of $81,937.
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3. $7,325 to Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
employee Adrienne Redding who suggested replacing expensive
and heavily-padded exposure control jumpsuits required for
inmates with a history of indecent exposure, which were
purchased from an out-of-state sole source vendor, and
instead using inmate labor for the in-house manufacture of a
lighter-weight version of the exposure control jumpsuits at
the California Correctional Center in Susanville, which
resulted in a first-year savings of $61,625.
4. $15,501, to be shared equally, to Department of Water
Resources employees Steven Speck, Roger Shonafelt, and Dana
White who suggested using polypropylene material in lieu of
steel material for radiator tank ends for motor air coolers
at 28 pumping plant units, which resulted in a first-year
total savings of $204,965.
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: Yes
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/29/13)
California Department of Human Resources (source)
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : According to the author's office, the
merit awards program is a useful tool to promote and reward
state work employees' innovative ideas that result in savings,
while making the state more efficient and productive.
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 77-0, 8/8/13
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian
Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley, Dahle, Daly,
Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox, Frazier, Beth Gaines,
Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gorell, Gray, Grove,
Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Roger Hernández, Holden, Jones,
Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue, Lowenthal, Maienschein,
Mansoor, Medina, Melendez, Mitchell, Morrell, Mullin,
Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea,
V. Manuel Pérez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Salas, Skinner,
Stone, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk,
Williams, Yamada, John A. Pérez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Chávez, Vacancy, Vacancy
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JL:d 8/30/13 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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