want to follow the procedures, but they need to be responsive and timely to
those and make sure we have the resources that either gets done by going
to the outside Counsel or keeping it in-house. One of the budget changes
that they proposed is actually to recreate a position that Council previously
allowed and created which is a Right to Know Officer position. The
position would be filled by a non-attorney. Bringing this position to
existence again, would allow our current Right to Know Officer who is one
of the Assistant Solicitor's to take on the more attorney specific tasks. The
Right to Know office is very important and he takes a great deal of pride
when other cities and municipalities shutdown during COVID in the Right to
Know function, the Solicitor's office continued to do things on a timely
basis. It takes a great deal of effort and time. By creating this position, it
does free up one of our attorneys to do attorney work. To do advocacy and
do the advisory function that he sees will have an increase demand next
year and certainly in the future. Preparing for the future, they are looking to
structure the office in a way. The Mayor had mentioned to all the different
departments about find ways to train our employees. He stated that they
did and put that in the budget and one of the items that have been
increased. Finding ways to train the employees that we have. Part of that
is to make them stronger in the work that they do and part of that is over
time it is an incentive to come in here and learn a bit and make them better
at the jobs that they do. He stated that they are creating a structure and this
is with some of the appendixes that they are looking to do that provides
opportunities for growth and promotion within the department. Doing this
helps with retention and it also helps with recruitment. One of the things
that they did and this was a late audible in this sort of process is that we
have taken one of Attorney Fruhwirth left in February and left that office with
that position open. Adam Rosenthal, Assistant Solicitor was promoted to
this position and then were down an attorney. They were trying to see what
they can do with that. There is an open position and what we have
suggested, recruited and hired and looked for it and it seemed like the best
interest would be to actually split that up into two part-time positions. There
are economic benefits that is more likely come from that. It also gives us
greater flexibility to be able to bring and used Juan Camacho, one of the
Assistant Solicitor's they had where he was with a firm, did an excellent job
for the city. He worked part-time for the city and really did a terrific job and
there are other attorneys out there and Juan was around about five years
and was relatively recent out of law school and there are other attorneys in
the area that the city can tap into on a part-time basis and really get a cost -
efficient services from them, but also really focus on some of the expertise
and knowledge. Part of that is giving us a greater flexibility and a cost
savings that would come from doing that. One of the other functions that
they want to do overtime, and this is in the future, is really get some of that
specialization and focus. He used an example of what the County of Lehigh
does and how they structured their office where you have a number of
part-time Solicitors that can come in and handle specific focused tasks.
That is something in the long-term the Solicitor's should consider doing.
There are other aspects of this that he has in the Budget Narrative and he