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PERSONNEL ENHANCEMENT PLAN

The following pages present the City of Watauga’s Personnel
Enhancement Plan. (PEP)
for FY2024-2028. The purpose of this Personnel Enhancement Plan is to identify current and
future personnel needs, justify these needs and develop a plan to fund these positions. City
administration will continue to rely on planning tools and documents such as the Personnel
Improvement Plan to ensure sufficient staffing numbers exist to maintain quality services to our
residents.

The PEP provides a five (5) year staffing plan created as a result of department directors’
requests. It is used as a tool for the annual budgeting process. Although 8.50 FTEs (Full-Time
Equivalent Employees) were requested for the FY2024-2025 budget year, only 1.75 FTE positions
were funded for a partial year to reduce the budgetary impact and still provide departmental
needs.

Additional changes in the FY2024-2025 personnel include reclassing the four part-time Summer
Maintenance Worker positions funding to a full-time Maintenance Worker I position, reclassing
positions previously funded by grants into departmental budgets, and four position promotions.

Additional details on the City’s number of FTEs by department can be found in the Budget
Summary section of this document. The requests that were submitted for FY2024-25 that were
not funded will be reevaluated during the next budget cycle. Through the PEP process
department directors also submitted requests for the reclassification of existing positions. These
reclassifications are due to an increase in responsibilities, as well as the creation of promotional
paths within the departments to supplement the City’s Succession Plan and promote employee
retention. Reclassifications do not affect the number of FTEs.

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