NOTICE OF RULEMAKING

TO:		Secretary of State
		All Departments, Institutions, and Other Interested Parties

FROM:	David M. Kaye, Director
		Division of Human Resources

Date:		October 20, 2006

SUBJECT:	NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER ADOPTION OF PERMANENT ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES

The State Personnel Director will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, December 6, 2006, to consider adoption of permanent administrative procedures pertaining to referrals for multiple vacancies and providing appointing authority discretion to grant saved pay when employees exercise retention rights.  Procedures to be considered for amendment include: 

Multiple Vacancies
4-24 - Provide that, for multiple vacancies, one additional name will be referred to the same appointing authority for each additional position, except when there are tied scores.

Saved Pay Option in the Event of Layoff
3-7 – Add that saved pay may apply to a downward movement due to exercise of retention rights
3-13 – Describe the specifics applying to saved pay when granted to employees exercising retention rights. 

The December 6, 2006, public hearing will commence at 1:30 p.m. in conference room 318 of the Centennial Building, 1313 Sherman Street, Denver.  All interested persons are urged to attend this public hearing and to submit written comments concerning the proposed administrative procedures to the State Personnel Director for the Director’s consideration.  Written comments must  be submitted no later than close of business on November 29, 2006.

Reasonable accommodation will be provided upon request for persons with disabilities.  If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this public hearing, please notify Iris Goodrich at 303-866-2171 by November 29, 2006.

The proposed administrative procedures and the proposed statement of basis, specific statutory authority and purpose will be available for review by interested persons on or before close of business November 29, 2006, at 633 17th Street, Suite 1600, Denver, Colorado 80202 and 1313 Sherman Street, Room 122, Denver, Colorado 80203, and on the Web at http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/dhr/.

The State Personnel Director’s authority to adopt these administrative procedures is enumerated in, but not limited to:

∙	Colorado Constitution, Article XII, Sections 13 and 14;
∙	State Personnel System Act, Title 24, Article 50, Sections 101 through 804, CRS (2005); Sections 24-50-501through 24-50-513, CRS (2005)
∙	State Support Services Reorganization Act, 24-50.3-104, CRS (2005); and
∙	CAPE v. Lamm, 677 P2d 1350 (Colo. 1984).