Okay.

This is Council President Pro Tem Jen and Nand.

I'm client to order the August 18th, 2026 meeting of Edmund City Council Public Safety Planning, Human Services and Personnel Committee known as PSPHSP.

And attendance, we have committee member, Councilmember Susan Payne, and members of the city administration, Rihanna Duarte and Joe Carter.

So let's get started.

And Joe, please take it away with committee business item 2.1 wastewater treatment plant.

Oh, hello, Michelle.

Council President Dosh is in attendance as well.

Wastewater treatment plant, senior liberal laboratory technician job description revisions.

Yeah.

So recently, you know, we have gone through a re-org that you guys have we've done a few different things, the maintenance supervisor change, the regulatory supervisor change.

And now we went back and we looked at the current job descriptions.

And we needed to do a revision of this one to make more sense for the for the new structure.

So we went through the job description.

We went ahead and looked at all of the um we went and looked through all of the uh job description and uh I had Jeannie, who is the new regulatory supervisor also uh spend a lot of time on it, and we just thought these changes make uh more sense for what the current plant needs, and so we'd like to make those changes and also recruit for that position.

Wonderful.

Um so are you thinking that this won't be an internal promotion?

You'll probably get someone from outside the organization.

We currently have a operator that um has uh meets all the qualifications uh and is very passionate about the laboratory uh side of things.

Um so we would probably do an internal recruitment first and see if uh that candidate does want indeed to be the water quality analyst.

Very qualified, has a bachelor's degree, and um has uh has been kind of uh subbing right now why uh Jeannie moved into that new role.

So we're hoping we're hoping she does, but you never know.

Wonderful.

Um is there any additional input you'd like to make Rayanne?

Uh no, Joe is correct.

Um, for the Teamsters contract, we'd open it up internally first.

Um great, yeah.

If we are able to grow our own staff, that's fantastic.

Um, and then yeah, I appreciate Joe partnering with HR and reviewing taking the time to review all the job descriptions when he is staffing his positions and working with the staff to give input.

Um, I know Jeannie uh McKinsey, who is the current supervisor, regulatory regulatory supervisor was um a huge source of help and input.

So yeah.

Wonderful.

Um are there any questions or comments from the committee or our executium member?

I I do have uh couple of questions.

So I and um and I I'm really appreciative that that before you open things up that you do do a full review of the the job descriptions.

It's a bit laborious, but um, you know, sometimes you have a person who's been in a position for a long time, and then when they leave, that's like, oh, that really does need some refreshing.

So I I was looking at this, and in some of the work conditions, it describes um working in a confined or a classified space, and then um part of the the certifications, you need a CPR, first aid, AED, and a bloodborne pathogens card.

Do we treat all these sort of safety elements um kind of spread throughout the entire um job description or do we tend to clump them?

And maybe this is a question more for Ray Ann rather than Joe, but just curious.

I mean, because then we also talk about PPE further down the the job description.

So I know that there needs to be a lot of training support for confined spaces in in the classified confined space.

And do we have confined spaces there at the wastewater treatment plant?

My guess is probably yes.

Yeah.

Do you want to take your first remote or do you want me to um you can go ahead first if you'd like?

Well, I mean, so we put those safety requirements in almost all of the wastewater uh job descriptions.

I think they're in every single one, as far as I know.

But uh, you know, we we kind of deal in a very harsh environment, and so even in the lab, there they have to kind of go to certain areas and get samples and stuff like that.

So we put those requirements in there.

So were you asking?

Well, I guess I guess um, you know, I didn't see any, you know, verbiage about whether you know, people are going to, you know, the successful candidate will need to um successfully pass, you know, the confined space training, the um some of the other um required trainings um for to maintain their you know their ability to do their job effectively.

Yeah, yeah.

So that's uh and that's the main reason we put them in the job description is because then we require that we do some of that's in-house training, and then some of it we bring in like confined space people to teach that.

Right, right.

And we would never want somebody to say that's not my job.

So we make sure it's in there so then we can uh cover it.

Right, you're right.

With the with the compressed staffing that you have, I totally get that.

It's like no one can say that's not my job.

It's like, let's make sure you're trained to do all the kind of things, right?