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and improve skills, knowledge, or competencies in four areas, Leadership development,
Employee Growth, Technical Competencies, and Supervisor Learning. The City will be
strategically adding to the content and number of opportunities for growth available
within each category.

Organizational Structure:
Fiscal year 2018-2019 brings some of the substantive changes to organizational structure
the City has experienced in about five years. With recent leadership retirements, the new
City Manager has rearranged the senior leadership team eliminating two Assistant City
Manager positions and creating two new Executive Director positions, the Executive
Director of Administration and Customer Service, and the Executive Director of
Strategic and Fiscal Services. These structural changes have supported the City Council’s
strategy for emphasizing leadership efforts linked to The Hurst Way, and provided a
focus on excellent customer service delivery through improving on processes within
departments. Encouraging innovation balanced with financial sustainability, hiring
supervisors are completing needs analysis to determine what skills are needs to fill
any gaps rather than directly replacing each position as is. This has resulted in several
budget neutral organizational structure changes to divisions including environmental
services, police leadership, the Hurst Conference Center staff, communications, and
utility billing. The City is anticipating even more retirements in the coming fiscal years,
and each retirement will generate an analysis for alignment with the City’s vision,
mission, strategic priorities and values. The Hurst Way components will act as the filter
for determining the ideal long-term organizational structure for Hurst.

City of Hurst Benefits:
The City of Hurst will provide quality services and programs with a responsive staff of
approximately 430 full-time equivalent budgeted positions for fiscal year 2018-2019.
Salary and benefits make up a major portion of the Operating Budgets. The City offers
competitive total compensation, and the goal is to try and maintain this advantage. By
comparison to seven other northeast Tarrant County cities, Hurst comparably provides
employees with a 2 to 1 retirement match, Life insurance, Long-Term Disability insurance,
Health insurance, dental insurance. Hurst is one of four that provides attendance pay, is
one of three that provides unlimited sick leave accrual, and is one of three to contribute
to social security. Direct pay and benefits are considered in total when evaluating the
compensation system.

The City and employees share in the cost of health insurance. For the 2018-2019 fiscal
year employees will pay between 0.25% and 5.25% of their base annual salary plus $70
or $90 per month for employee and dependent health care based on their coverage
choices. This equates to the City covering approximately 80% - 97% of the cost of health
insurance for employees and dependents. The City requires employees and eligible
spouses who are tobacco users to contribute an additional thirty dollars per month.
The City provides dental insurance at no cost for the employee with the option for
employees to add dependents at their own expense.

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