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5919 MAIN STREET . NEW PORT RICHEY, FL 34652 . 727.853.1016 |
| TO: | City of New Port Richey City Council |
| FROM: | Dale Hall, AICP, Community & Development Director |
| DATE: | 5/20/2025 |
| RE: | Planning & Development Department - Addition of a Development Clerk Position and Corresponding Budget Amendment |
REQUEST:
The request is to establish a Development Clerk position from existing positions within the Planning & Development Department. This would involve changing an existing part-time Planning Intern position to full-time and upgrading that position to a Development Clerk role. This new position will be better suited to provide administrative and clerical functions in the department and will be cross trained in permitting activities to provide back-up to the other departmental personnel.
A corresponding budget amendment will be necessary to fund this position as it was not part of the 2024-25 budget.
DISCUSSION:
The need for this position is due to the following:
- Continued increase in the residential and commercial growth of the community.
- Increased permitting due to redevelopment of hurricane damaged homes.
- Increased permitting due to recent annexations.
- Reduction to the amount of current Staff overtime to reduce potential fatigue.
- Succession Planning due to pending retirements of Staff members.
Adding this position at this time will allow for the Planning & Development Department to address development activities in an efficient and expeditious manner.
RECOMMENDATION:
The recommendation from Staff is to approve the Development Clerk position in the Planning & Development Department as well as the corresponding Budget Amendment to fund the additional costs associated with the creation of the position.
BUDGET/FISCAL IMPACT:
The financial impact associated with adding this position is expected to be $11,200 for the remainder of FY 2024-2025. The funds to cover this new position already exists in the budget and will be obtained by utilizing various vacant position savings.