Drafter
Clerk 5/2/2007
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A MOTION approving the King County executive's plan to implement a comprehensive countywide employee performance management system.
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WHEREAS, county employees receive performance input, many county employees in the executive branch do not receive optimally structured feedback on their performance or benefit from professional development planning under the current performance appraisal and merit pay system, and
WHEREAS, a high performance government can be supported by implementing a systematic and equitable employee performance management system that encourages and rewards high performance by employees, resolves low-performance issues and helps the county to provide quality services to its citizens, and
WHEREAS, the metropolitan King County council adopted the policy that annual employee performance evaluations shall be an element in a comprehensive employee performance management system that shall include employee development and can be considered in determining incentive compensation, promotions and demotions if agreed to by the union through the collective bargaining process, and
WHEREAS, King County adopted Ordinance 15652 relating to the county's 2007 budget, and
WHEREAS, Ordinance 15652, Section 24, Proviso P1, requires that $200,000 of human resources division's employee performance management project funds shall not be expended or encumbered until the council has approved by motion a plan submitted by the executive to implement a comprehensive countywide employee performance management system;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:
The King County executive's plan to implement a comprehensive employee
performance management system, as described in Attachment A to this motion, is hereby approved.