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TOWN OF PANTEGO
ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET & PLAN OF SERVICES
FUND: General Fund- 100
DEPARTMENT: General and Administrative - 101
DIVISION: Human Resources

Description:

The Human Resource department is committed to providing high quality professional service to all prospective, current, and past
employees; and treating each with respect, good care, and individualized attention. Human Resources provides departmental
support by managing: information, records, performance and achievements; while encouraging individual employee input and
participation.
Human Resources serves to attract, develop, motivate and retain a diverse workforce with a supportive and creative work
environment with an emphasis on customer service and communication within the Town and community.
The Human Resource department's accounting function is responsible for processing payroll and other financial records and
assists with the annual auditing by providing expense reports and records. In addition, the department is tasked with the risk
management functions; and oversees the benefits program: health, dental, life, worker's compensation, and liability insurance.

Mission Statement: 7. Research cost saving phone expense through
Spectrum VoIP
The Human Resources department functions by providing
professional support to the town and it's municipal departments and 8. Wellness programs to improve insurance premiums:
employees by ensuring compensation, benefits which are compliance January: 60-Step Challenge and April: 1mm Step
withe Federal and State Laws; and the regulations and policies of the Program.
Town of Pantego.
9. Finance--assist with annual audit.
Maj or Goals:
10. Finance--assist with budget.
1. Research health, dental, and life benefits plans with other
providers for best low cost premiums for employees and their 11. Fire--created mail out for annual fire inspection fees to
families; and thereby presenting to the Town Council for Property and Business Owners.
consideration and adoption.
12. PEDC--create spreadsheets, flyers, mail outs and
2. Formulate and constructe a comprehensive step pay program for reimbursement for $30 Gift Card program August 2020
all employees in the Town budget with a goal to achieve area wide and May 2021.
competiveness, and retain Town employees.
13. PEDC--post announcements to Arlington Chamber of
3. Provide full-time employees with education and training tools Commerce, respond and research emails.
through on-line training to achieve best practice methods for
professional conduct. 14. PEDC--assisted with photo shoot.
Fiscal Year 2020-2021 Accomplishments: 15. PEDC--ribbon cuttings.
1. Open Enrollment Benefits--providing employees with vendors 16. PEDC--attend Pantego Business Alliance meetings,
contact information to include: optometrist (First Eye Care), dental respond and research emails.
(Park Row Dental), additional liability insurance providers (AFLAC,
Liberty National and Nationwide), financial institution (Frost Bank), Obj ectiv es for Fiscal Year 2021-2022:
Sam's Club, emergency care (Sure Point), and chiropractor (Arlington
Chiropractic). 1. Continued education to obtain certification, Society For
Human Resource Management (SHRM).
2. Employee Handbook--rewrote the Town of Pantego Employee
Handbook to ensure it is contemporary and compliant with all new 2. Archive retainable files to Laserfiche software.
legislation, addressing potentially problematic topics such as social
media. 3. Provide full-time and part-time employees with
education and training tools through on-line training.
3. TML Intergovernmental Risk Pool--update and manage positions
for worker's compensation that affects quarterly billing statements. 4. TML Intergovernmental Risk Pool--review and update
Town municipal property for insurance liability.
4. Destruction of Records--disposed of multiple years of records in
compliance with the state records retention schedule policy. 5. Time system for payroll instead of time cards.
5. Covd-19 Response. Maj or Budget Changes:

6. Research cost saving office supplies through Staples Advantage. 1. Step Pay Plan

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