Human Resources Department

The Human Resources Department serves as a support system for all City departments and all City employees by processing payroll, interpreting, and updating policies, properly maintaining personnel files, keeping the City in compliance with federal and state employment laws, managing benefits, and improving communication.

• Ensure that properly qualified individuals are recruited, developed, and retained
• Assist employees with all questions and issues
• Ensure adequate and affordable benefit packages for employees
• Ensure a safe, productive, and pleasant workplace

• Strive to meet the needs of our changing workforce, our tenured employees, and the City of Fredericksburg
• Fill vacant and new positions with qualified, eager, ambitious individuals that will lead our organization into the future
• Work on our benefits package in order to be competitive with our peers
• Visit different department locations throughout the year to be visible and approachable, and get to know employees better
• Continue open communication, open door policy, and availability to answer questions and discuss information regarding insurance, Texas Municipal Retirement System (TMRS), supplemental benefits, employment, and other issues

• Successfully worked with City of Fredericksburg management, City Council, our consultant, Evergreen Solutions, and supervisors to implement the results of the salary survey
• Assisted in management of departments and employees to try and foster a pleasant work environment
• Transferred administrative employee to the HR department to facilitated better organization and proper retention of documents for records management
• Continued to educate our employees on their insurance benefits and supplemental insurance coverages
• Guided employees through the retirement process and participated in finding qualified, suited replacements for their vacated positions
• Facilitated implementation of civil hearing process and necessary tasks for onboarding of new Civil Hearing Officer

• With the support of City Council, we will fully implement the step-pay plan developed for Police, Fire and EMS
• A new HR and payroll software system, NEOGOV, will be implemented in FY 2023 for roll out in FY 2024
• Update our Personnel Policies and Procedures Manual
• Continue to monitor our self-insured group health insurance program, educate employees on insurance benefits, determine best coverages for our employees and the organization, and monitor our claims throughout the year to manage our funds and stay on top of costs
• Continue to encourage our employees to take more ownership of their health insurance and encourage them to learn the website that was included with the provider change in FY 2022
• Work diligently to find qualified individuals to fill the thirteen new positions added for FY 2023 as well as other vacant positions
• Continue to collaborate with new supervisors to be certain they have the tools and knowledge they need to lead their department