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CITY OF ORONO MEMORANDUM <br />DATE: February 26, 2018 <br />TO: Orono City Council <br />FROM: Dustin Rief, City Administrator and <br />Adam Edwards, P.E., Public Works Director / City Engineer <br />RE: Human Resources Update <br />1. Purpose. The purpose of this memo is to provide the City council and update on the City's human <br />resources practices and changes. <br />2. City Staff. <br />a. Performance Evaluation Automation. <br />b. Review of Human Resources Practices. <br />3. Public Works Department Specifics. Since concerns were brought up during the removal of a <br />Public Works Maintenance Worker last fall the following action have been taken within the department: <br />a. Change to the Hiring Process for Maintenance Workers. In lieu of a second round of <br />interviews, which is the norm for Orono hires, the public works department now conducts a skills aptitude <br />interview. The aptitude interview consist of a series of hands on exercises to assess the applicant's <br />general mechanical aptitude and equipment operations skills. This methodology was used successfully in <br />the last maintenance worker selection. The top two applicants from the resume screening and initial <br />interview process we invited back of the aptitude interview. The interview consisted of identifying a <br />series of tool and subassemblies commonly used in the public works profession and a test on loading a <br />dump <br />b. Electronic tracking of Institutional Training. To augment the paper records maintained for <br />institutional training, the department began experimenting with using the Cartegraph work management <br />system to track institutional training electronically. <br />c. Tracking of on the Job Training. The department is developing a tracking mechanism for on <br />the job training to track the training of new employees and the training of existing employees on new <br />equipment or procedures. This is still a work in progress. Initial efforts focused on acquiring an existing <br />best proactive from a neighboring department. When this failed to produce results the department began <br />the process of creating a tracking spreadsheet of tasks from scratch. That work is underway. Example <br />below: <br />es�� ... ���� <br />