§ 21-5-225 - Position pools. - Arkansas Statutes

21-5-225. Position pools.

(a) (1) There is established a pool of two hundred fifty (250) career service positions at grade C130 and one hundred fifty (150) professional and executive positions at grade N922 assigned to the Office of Personnel Management to be used to reclassify positions in state agencies and institutions to the proper classification and grade if the state agency or institution does not have a vacant position available with the appropriate classification and grade.

(2) (A) Positions authorized as career service positions may not be reclassified as professional and executive classifications utilizing these pool positions.

(B) Positions authorized as professional and executive classifications may not be reclassified into career service classifications utilizing these pool positions.

(3) To obtain a position from the pool, a state agency or institution must surrender to the pool the position being reclassified.

(4) The office shall review all requests and may grant approval of the reclassification after review by the Personnel Committee of the Legislative Council.

(5) No position established under this section shall exceed a salary rate in excess of the highest rate established by grade in the requesting agency's or institution's appropriation act.

(b) (1) The office shall establish and maintain a central growth pool of two hundred (200) career service positions at grade C130 and one hundred (100) professional and executive positions at grade N922 to be used to establish additional positions in state agencies of the proper classification and grade when the state agency does not have sufficient positions available with the appropriate classification and grade to meet an agency's mandated responsibilities.

(2) Central growth pool positions are to be used by the state agencies if the personnel service needs exceed the number of positions in a classification authorized by the General Assembly and were not anticipated at the time of the passage of the agency's operating appropriation act.

(3) No position established under this section may exceed a salary rate in excess of the highest rate established by grade in the requesting agency's appropriation act.

(4) The agency shall provide justification to the office for the need to allocate positions from the central growth pool.

(5) Titles shall not be assigned to the agency from the central growth pool until specific positions are requested by the agency, recommended by the office, and reviewed by the Personnel Committee of the Legislative Council.

(6) If the new classifications are necessary for any of these additional positions, the office may assign the appropriate title and grade after review by the Personnel Committee of the Legislative Council.

(7) If an agency requests any central growth pool position to be continued during the subsequent fiscal year, the position must be requested as a new position in the agency's subsequent fiscal year budget request.

(c) (1) The office shall establish and maintain a temporary transition pool of twenty-five (25) career service positions at grade C130 and twenty-five (25) professional and executive positions at grade N922 to be used to establish additional temporary positions in state agencies of the proper classification and grade if the state agency does not have sufficient positions available with the appropriate classification and grade to address organizational transition issues such as succession planning or other changes in agency administration.

(2) Temporary transition pool positions are to be used by state agencies only if the personnel service needs exceed the number of positions in a classification authorized by the General Assembly and were not anticipated at the time of the passage of the agency's operating appropriation act.

(3) A position established under this section shall not exceed a salary rate in excess of the highest rate established by grade or by line item in the requesting agency's appropriation act.

(4) No position shall be authorized to the agency from the temporary transition pool until the specific positions are requested by the agency, recommended by the office, and reviewed by the Personnel Committee of the Legislative Council.

(5) Temporary transition pool positions shall be authorized for not more than one hundred eighty (180) calendar days in a fiscal year and may not be renewed or extended.

(d) (1) There is established a temporary pool of two hundred fifty (250) career service positions at grade C130 and one hundred fifty (150) professional and executive positions at grade N922 assigned to the office to be used to reclassify positions in state agencies and institutions when the office has determined that the reclassification is necessary to address a classification or grade issue related to the implementation of the classification and compensation plan study required by Acts 2007, No. 868.

(2) A position classification title and grade established under this section shall be reviewed by the Personnel Committee of the Legislative Council.

(3) To obtain a position from the pool, a state agency or institution must surrender to the pool the position being reclassified.

(4) This subsection shall expire on June 30, 2010.