8.36A - FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT POSITIONS.
8.36A FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT POSITIONS.
1. For purposes of making appropriations and financial reports
and as used in appropriations statutes, "full-time equivalent
position" means a budgeting and monitoring unit that equates the
aggregate of full-time positions, part-time positions, a vacancy and
turnover factor, and other adjustments. One full-time equivalent
position represents two thousand eighty working hours, which is the
regular number of hours one full-time person works in one fiscal
year. The number of full-time equivalent positions shall be
calculated by totaling the regular number of hours that could be
annually worked by persons in all authorized positions, reducing
those hours by a vacancy and turnover factor and dividing that amount
by two thousand eighty hours. In order to achieve the full-time
equivalent position level, the number of filled positions may exceed
the number of full-time equivalent positions during parts of the
fiscal year to compensate for time periods when the number of filled
positions is below the authorized number of full-time equivalent
positions.
2. If a department or establishment has reached or anticipates
reaching the full-time equivalent position level authorized for the
department but determines that conversion of a contract position to a
full-time equivalent position would result in cost savings while
providing comparable or better services, the department or
establishment may request the director of the department of
management to approve the conversion and addition of the full-time
equivalent position. The request shall be accompanied by evidence
demonstrating how the cost savings and service quality will be
achieved through the conversion. If approved by the director of the
department of management, the department's or establishment's
authorized full-time equivalent position level shall be increased
accordingly and the revised level shall be reported to the fiscal
committee of the legislative council and the legislative services
agency. Section History: Recent Form
90 Acts, ch 1247, §1; 2003 Acts, ch 35, §46, 49; 2003 Acts, ch
145, §122
Referred to in § 161.4, 455B.183C