Discuss, consider and take appropriate action on approving funding of tenure service credit pay for PCN# 1906 in the District Attorney's Office with funding from the District Attorney's Asset Forfeiture Funds for FY20.

I have completed the posting, application, interview, and selection process necessary to hire the new Child Abuse Investigator.  This new DA Sergeant Investigator is a tenured law enforcement position.  The salary for this new position was set at L3-2, the minimum of the L3 tenure scale.
 
The selected candidate has a long and distinguished law enforcement career with Williamson County.  Ms. Clemons has confirmed that the candidate's prior service credit would place him at L3-18 on the tenure salary chart in accordance with County Policy.  Please refer to the Employee Policy Manual, Tenure Pay Scale Compensation Policies, Pages 28-30.
 
Even though County Policy allows the candidate to be hired at the L3-18 tenure salary step, my request is to hire the candidate at an L3-10 tenure salary step, allowing the candidate eight years prior service credit.  My intention in requesting the L3-10 tenure salary step (instead of L3-18) is to acknowledge the ten-year minimum law enforcement experience required for a Sergeant Investigator in the District Attorney's Office and to avoid internal inequity with the other Sergeant Investigators who currently serve in the Office.
 
The only impediment to hiring this outstanding and exceptional candidate is an available funding source to pay the additional cost associated with prior service credit.  The "loaded" salary difference between an L3-2 tenure step ($85,348.16) and an L3-10 tenure step ($98,717.85) is $13,369.69.  This candidate's value to the District Attorney's Office - and to the child victims who will be served by him - exponentially outweighs this cost.  With the court's approval, I will fund 11 months of the $13,369.69 additional cost of the prior service credit from the District Attorney Civil Forfeiture Account FY2019/2020 budget.
 
I cannot proceed with the hiring process through HR until the Court approves funding of the prior service credit.