County department directors to be evaluated in 2012
NORWICH – Beginning in 2012, the directors of Chenango County’s 25 governmental departments will be evaluated on their job performance.
Each supervisor received a copy of the official evaluation packet at a meeting of the board earlier this month. Supervisors who chair standing committees will be responsible for meeting with department directors and completing the forms.
According to Chenango County Clerk of the Board RC Woodford, members of the Personnel Committee would be determining how often the reviews will be made. They would most likely begin within the first three months of next year, he said.
Town of Smyrna Supervisor James B. Bays initially proposed the evaluation process to members of Personnel two years ago.
“We really needed to have this important management tool. It’s not necessarily a negative. There’s nothing wrong with determining where a department head thinks they are going,” he said yesterday.
Most of the check off items are analytical in nature. Department directors will be asked how things are going, what they see as strategic goals and to identify any challenges, for example. In turn, the process gives them an idea of what their standing committee and board of supervisors want them to be doing, said Bays.
But only half of what the county’s most outspoken Democrat asked for back in 2009 has come to fruition. Bays said he is still waiting for a “top up” organizational chart. The chain of command from department directors to committees and/or to the chairman of the board remains unclear, he said. Bays referred to a disagreement amongst supervisors at this month’s board meeting as to whether the county attorney is a department director or not, and whether the position reports to the board chairman or to the standing committee.
And Bays isn’t the only supervisor who has asked for more job performance monitoring. Though he is no longer in the running for chairman of the board, Town of Guilford Supervisor George Seneck said earlier in the year that one of the things he would do if elected would be to resurrect the practice of having committee chairman spend at least one day per year in the departments that they oversee.
“I’m told committee chairs used to do that, but haven’t for many years,” he said. “They would spend a full day to take a look at the operations and what’s going on and what the concerns are and opportunities to be more efficient.”
Each supervisor received a copy of the official evaluation packet at a meeting of the board earlier this month. Supervisors who chair standing committees will be responsible for meeting with department directors and completing the forms.
According to Chenango County Clerk of the Board RC Woodford, members of the Personnel Committee would be determining how often the reviews will be made. They would most likely begin within the first three months of next year, he said.
Town of Smyrna Supervisor James B. Bays initially proposed the evaluation process to members of Personnel two years ago.
“We really needed to have this important management tool. It’s not necessarily a negative. There’s nothing wrong with determining where a department head thinks they are going,” he said yesterday.
Most of the check off items are analytical in nature. Department directors will be asked how things are going, what they see as strategic goals and to identify any challenges, for example. In turn, the process gives them an idea of what their standing committee and board of supervisors want them to be doing, said Bays.
But only half of what the county’s most outspoken Democrat asked for back in 2009 has come to fruition. Bays said he is still waiting for a “top up” organizational chart. The chain of command from department directors to committees and/or to the chairman of the board remains unclear, he said. Bays referred to a disagreement amongst supervisors at this month’s board meeting as to whether the county attorney is a department director or not, and whether the position reports to the board chairman or to the standing committee.
And Bays isn’t the only supervisor who has asked for more job performance monitoring. Though he is no longer in the running for chairman of the board, Town of Guilford Supervisor George Seneck said earlier in the year that one of the things he would do if elected would be to resurrect the practice of having committee chairman spend at least one day per year in the departments that they oversee.
“I’m told committee chairs used to do that, but haven’t for many years,” he said. “They would spend a full day to take a look at the operations and what’s going on and what the concerns are and opportunities to be more efficient.”
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