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DISTRICT ATTORNEY / PERSONNEL - District Attorney Matt Rogers
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Requested Action(s)
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a) Request approval of revisions to the classification specifications of District Attorney Investigator I/II and District Attorney Investigator III, including a title change to District Attorney Investigator I/II/III, effective 6/17/25
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Financial Impact:
The annual difference between the District Attorney Investigator II and the District Attorney Investigator III is approximately $12,513, which includes salary, benefits and roll-up costs. The Department has included the anticipated increased costs associated with this request in the FY 25/26 Recommended Budget.
Background Information:
The District Attorney’s Office requests to revise the District Attorney Investigator classification series. Currently, the District Attorney Investigator I and District Attorney Investigator II are flexibly staffed. However, the District Attorney Investigator III is a separate classification specification. For employees to promote to the level of District Attorney Investigator III, there must be a vacancy, and the employee must go through the recruitment and selection process. Restructuring series by creating a District Attorney Investigator I/II/III would allow the Department to advance incumbents to the higher-level classifications after gaining the required knowledge, skills and experience for the higher-level classifications. Although flexibly staffed, incumbents would not automatically promote to the higher-level classification. Additionally, adding the District Attorney Investigator III to the flexibly staffed series would require the level III to change from a “lead” position to an “advanced-journey level" position. As an advanced-journey level, the position would still provide training, mentoring, and guidance to the lower-level Investigators and may temporarily provide supervision as necessary and assigned.
Flexibly staffed positions have proven valuable to the Department in both recruitment and retention. With respect to hiring Investigators, the Department has found the addition of the District Attorney Investigator III position attracts substantial interest among experienced qualified applicants. The Department has also found that the District Attorney Investigator III position is attractive to current employees in that they have room to grow as they advance in their career.
If approved, the Department will be requesting to amend the Position Allocation List (PAL) during FY 25/26 Recommended Budget by swapping out the current 3.5 FTE District Attorney Investigator I/II allocations and 2.00 FTE District Attorney Investigator I/II or District Attorney Investigator III allocations and replacing them with District Attorney Investigator I/II/III allocations.
The Tehama County Peace Officers’ Association (POA) has been notified of the proposed revisions and an agreement has been reached.