Amador County – Amador County Chief Administrative Officer Chuck Iley hired Aaron Brusatori as the new Community Development Director, and also helped to negotiate a two-year extension to Dr. Robert Hartmann’s contract as Public Health Officer.

Iley said Hartmann’s contract is pending approval by the full Amador County Board of Supervisors at its next meeting. Iley worked with Supervisor Chairman John Plasse to offer terms to Hartmann. He said it would pay Hartmann $5,600 per month, or $500 a month less than he now makes. The agreement is going before the Board at its May 10th meeting, likely on the consent agenda. If approved, it would extend Hartmann’s contract two years beyond its current expiration date, from July 11, 2011, to June 30, 2013. Hartmann had been working under successive one-year contract extensions. Iley said he is planning to put Hartmann’s contract on the consent agenda.

The Chief Administrative Officer also helped interview and then hired Aaron Brusatori, who began working for the county Monday as its first Community Development Director, which oversees the departments of Public Works, Planning, Building, Environmental Health, Code Enforcement and Solid Waste. With a “pretty broad” position, the Community Development Director will focus primarily on Public Works direction, but in addition, he oversees those other departments, Iley said. It is a “management unit job level” and the directors of the other departments answer to him. The Community Development Director’s pay level is $104,000 a year.

Brusatori was hired as an employee, by the CAO, and his new position was approved by the Board of Supervisors several months ago. It was advertised, then offered to Brusatori about six weeks ago. At the time the position was created by Supervisors, Iley recommended they make the Community Development Director an engineer’s position. Brusatori, also the Mayor of Amador City, is a professional civil engineer, and is now a regular at-will employee of Amador County.

Iley said the CAO makes regular hiring decisions, and department heads work at the pleasure of the board. A hiring committee, approved by the board, worked on Brusatori’s hiring. It included the Human Resources director, Iley, and the Administrative Committee, made up of Supervisor Chairman John Plasse and Supervisor Louis Boitno.

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