REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Action to Add Two Assistant Directors of Electric Utility and Revise Assistant Director of Electric Utility Job Description to Align with the Strategic Plan Implementation
Report
BACKGROUND
During the development of the City's 2018 Silicon Valley Power (SVP) Strategic Plan (Strategic Plan), a key initiative was to review the Department's organizational design to ensure it aligns with a high level of service delivery, resource optimization, and staff development. In addition to the organizational structure requirements to successfully implement the SVP Strategic Plan, the upcoming retirement of the long-tenured Chief Electric Utility Officer (CEUO) surfaced the need to reevaluate the organizational structure. This provides an opportunity to move the process forward toward a more sustainable structure which improves organizational efficiency and transparency, and supports better succession planning. The Department will continue to leverage the historical knowledge and experience of individuals while making certain top level organizational adjustments to aid in the transition to a new CEUO and support a more complete SVP organizational review and assessment. The electric utility industry is rapidly changing both by regulation and innovation and SVP must have the resources in place to keep up with its customer needs.
City Council approves all salary schedules and job descriptions pursuant to the City's Personnel & Salary Resolution, Sections 4, 6, and 9.
DISCUSSION
The current organizational structure, Attachment 1, includes the key leadership positions of the Electric Utility Chief Operating Officer and two Assistant Directors. The Assistant Director of Distribution is in charge of the engineering, operation, and maintenance of the utility as well as connection of new load and system infrastructure projects. The Assistant Director of Planning and Strategic Services manages resource planning, acquisition and delivery, debt mana...
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