Last week the Compton City Council was unable to amend the 1st quarter budget for FY 2019-2020. In order to amend the budget, four votes are needed. With Councilwoman Tana McCoy absent, the vote failed 3-1. Councilman Isaac Galvan was the lone dissenting vote.
City Attorney Damon Brown is expected to give an oral presentation on e-cigarettes, along with City Manager Craig Cornwell giving an update on elections. It is unclear why City Clerk Alita Godwin isn’t providing that update.
Related: Compton City Council to Amend FY 2019-2020 Budget
City Manager Craig Cornwell will also make a 2nd attempt to amend the FY 2019-2020 budget to perform “cost neutral” transfers. The transfers are designed to add new positions to address levels of service, while removing other positions.
It’s a setup for the Deputy HR Director. Everyone at City Hall knows that the position will most likely be for Jesenia S. From payroll supervisor to HR analyst to deputy HR director next.
Anonymous Compton citizen
Cornwell wishes to add positions to his office, Building & Safety, Public Works, Human Resources, City Attorney’s office, and the Compton Housing Authority.
Cornwell is seeking to remove HR Analyst and the Program and Compliance Manager in Public Works.
The staff report details that some accounts don’t have sufficient money to perform the transfers totaling approx. $200,000. The staff report goes further to list a laundry lists of errors in account codes being listed in the budget incorrectly and the need for journal entries to remedy the problems.
It is unfortunate that the city’s of Compton and Inglewood have inept budget staff on the payroll who continue to report the same issues with their FY 2019-2020 budgets.
Staff-Report-1st-Quarter-Budget-Amendment-Rescind-25155.docx
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hmmm
No major changes, just moving shit around
Ackward to have an deputy HR position added and analyst deleted.
If they so concern about money, then common sense would dictate that you delete the hr analyst position and take the money and spend it on operational and maintenance cost, not another empty HR.
Very concerned about
Who’s the person that recommends this crap?
Government jargon again: critical adjustments (don’t change shit, nothing changed so it ain’t critical), best quality of level of services ( just fix the potholes bitch!!),.
The budget stafff, hahaha some mex dude Mario Hernandez is the budget officer. Started as an office assistant or something in the General Services dept (plumbing, building, maintenance, etc).
He got his “learn on” and became a financial analyst an a few months later the budget officer. He’s moving on up like the Jeffersons.
You guys should be looking laughing at HR for allowing this