Friday, October 24, 2014

Alan Pierce agrees to delay retirement for one year

                County administrative Director Alan Pierce will spend another year working for Franklin County.
Mister Pierce announced his retirement earlier this year, but it turns out his job has so many important responsibilities that the county commission asked that he stay on the job for another year to help make sure that his replacement is fully trained.
Mister Pierce said he will stay through next September, but the county had to agree to give him a substantial raise and an extended vacation next summer.
Mister Pierce began working for the county in 1988 as the county planner.
Since that time his job description has been expanded to where he has to have knowledge and competence in a broad number of areas, not just one single department.
His position requires that he is able to ask questions and understand responses from senior government officials at the state and federal level, often times without immediate consultation with the Board.
He also has to deal with the public and the news media, and has to be able to articulate Board positions and policies on a wide range of topics.
The person who takes over when Mister Pierce leaves will require extensive training – and Allen said he will spend much of the next year working with whoever is hired to replace him.
The county agreed to keep Mister Pierce on at a salary of 82 thousand dollars effective October the 1st.
That’s about 19 thousand dollars more than he’s making now.
They also agreed to give him 2 weeks off in May, and an extended vacation in July and August.
So far 15 people have applied for Alan’s job, but the county decided to extend the application period for another 4 weeks.
They also increased the starting salary range to be between 45 and 57 thousand dollars in the hopes of getting more qualified applicants.
Commissioners said that once the application period is finished they would like Alan to narrow down the applicants to 5 and the commission would make the final hiring decision.
They would like to have the new hire in place by early 2015 so that Alan can work with the new hire for at least 6 months between January and June which would coincide with the normal six month probationary period of any new county employee.

The transition period would end on September 30th.



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