EL SEGUNDO HERALD November 5, 2020 Page 7
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City Council from front page
The belt-tightening at City Hall was necessitated
by the coronavirus’s spread and
the economic fallout from state and county
measures to slow the infection rate. El Segundo
is exploring other ways to meet its
target savings on salary and benefits over
the next nine months. The City Council on
Tuesday revisited a reorganization plan that
merges departments and eliminates several
positions. The restructuring was introduced
in mid-September as part of the 2020-21
budget-approval process.
Because the city’s organizational chart is set
by ordinance, the council needs to authorize
proposed changes to the department names,
their directors’ responsibilities, and the salary
ranges for those top management positions.
A vote will take place at the next council
meeting on November 17. If approved, the
city’s organizational chart would look like this:
• A Community Services Department
would be created and combine the Library
and Recreation and Parks departments. One
director would oversee them, eliminating a
director position.
• Park Maintenance would be folded into
the Public Works Department.
• The Planning and Building Safety Department
would become Development Services
to reflect the emphasis on land-use services.
That umbrella designation includes managing
an affordable-housing fund and the city’s
overall affordable-housing efforts.
• Joe Lillio would become the city’s chief
financial officer and continue to oversee
the Finance Department and the city’s treasurer.
Risk management responsibilities would
fall under Finance. This department gains a
risk manager who’ll oversee the workers’
comp and general liability programs for
El Segundo.
• Information Services Department would
be renamed to reflect the internal support it
provides to El Segundo operations. The new
name will become the Information Technology
Services Department.
Six job titles would be deleted under the
restructuring, resulting in one less director
to oversee parks and programming. Six job
titles and descriptions will be modified to
reflect the departmental name changes and,
in some cases, the additional responsibilities.
However, the salaries for five of the modified
positions won’t change, and only the deputy
city manager could see a raise under the
proposed reorganization.
City Manager Scott Mitnick wants to
hire a risk manager who’ll be tasked with
reducing workers’ compensation claims and
general liability. The risk manager’s monthly
salary range is set at $10,071 to $12,085.
Two librarian positions will be converted to
create a library services manager to oversee
day-to-day operations and a cultural arts
coordinator position. The starting salaries are
$9,855 per month for the library post and
$6,468 per month to manage the 1 percent
fee to support the arts in El Segundo.
In other business, the council approved
a debt management and disclosure policy.
State law directs local governments to have
policies in place for issuing and managing
debt. Adhering to a debt policy “helps to
ensure the city’s debt is issued and managed
prudently to maintain a sound financial
position and creditworthiness,” the item
in the county packet read. Cities take on
long- and short-term debt to pay for capital
improvement projects or improve cash flow
ahead of expected revenues.
Chevron awarded two grants for El Segundo
business development and fire services,
which the council gratefully accepted. The
Chevron Social Investment Partnership
Program approved grant applications of
$100,000 for continued economic development
and $215,900 for the fire department.
The economic development funds will help
El Segundo’s economic recovery efforts as
officials work to attract businesses and jobs
to the city. This is the eighth business development
grant from Chevron, which has
supported El Segundo’s business-development
outreach with more than $1.1 million since
2013. According to Deputy City Manager
Barbara Voss, the fire department needed a
rescue ambulance to replace one damaged by
a vehicle fire in 2019, so the new Chevron
grant money will reimburse the equipmentreplacement
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