City of Homestead

City Departments - Human Resources

Marcie A. Heese
Director of Human Resources
Tel: 305.224.4460
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Biography

Marcie A. Heese has been with the City of Homestead for a total of 23 years and has been the Director of Human Resources since 2000. Marcie started with the City in 1983 in the Purchasing Department and was the Purchasing Director from 1986 to 1992. From 1992 to 1998 she was an Assistant City Manager. Immediately after her promotion, Hurricane Andrew hit the City and she was responsible for the staffing and function of the City’s Building Department and coordinated the re-building effort, repairs, and insurance settlements of the city facilities. She was also part of the City’s labor management team for union negotiations.

Marcie left the City from 1998 to 2000 to pursue other interests with public and private entities in the Human Resources management field and happily returned to the City as the Director of Human Resources in 2000.

Marcie is a certified Public Personnel Professional through the Florida Public Personnel Association and a certified Florida Public Employer Labor Relations Professional through the Florida Public Employer Labor Relations Association. She is also a member of the Society of Human Resources Management, International Public Management Association – HR, National Public Employer Labor Relations Association, and the Public Risk Management Association.

Mission Statement
The Mission of the Human Resources Department is to provide timely and effective services in the personnel, labor relations, insurance, and safety areas to City departments, employees and the public.

Services, Functions and Activities

The Human Resources Department is organized into four service areas:

Employee Relations
This area includes recruitment, selection, job descriptions, classifications, policy development, assessment, training, performance evaluation, disciplinary actions and wage & benefit surveys.

Employee Benefits
Areas of responsibility include health & welfare, group benefits program, orientation, community relations, tuition reimbursement/scholarships, employee recognition and counseling/assistance.

Risk Management
Responsible for accident/incident investigation, reporting & monitoring for Workers Compensation, safety training and general liability issues.

Administration
This area includes labor relations, legal regulations, strategic planning, training and development.

Fiscal Year Highlights

Human Resources (Safety and Risk Management) areas will continue to provide timely and responsive services to City staff and the general public. The City will continue to promote our “Drug Free Workplace” environment that includes an Employee Assistance Program (“EAP”) and random drug testing for all employees.

The City will focus on improving recruitment, employee retention, and leadership for an overall departmental succession plan. Our customer service training will continue for all employees in addition to our regular annual training in varying topics.

The Human Resources Guide will be revised to become a user-friendlier manual for both employees and supervisors.

The Risk Management area will work to reduce workplace accidents and injuries, improve safety awareness and defend the City against baseless claims.

Departmental Expenditure Summary
	Final Budget FY 06/07	Actual / Unaudited FY 06/07	Adopted FY 07/08
HR General fund
Personnel Services	497,342	508,179	534,940
Operating Expenditures	73,345	65,691	75,324
Capital Outlay	4,000	3,090	0
Total	574,687	576,960	610,264

Self Insurance Fund*
Personnel Services	89,095	88,512	94,004
Operating Expenditures	7,901,505	7,193,870	8,712,288
Other	2,000,000	2,000,000	0
Total	9,990,600	9,282,382	8,806,292

Total Expenditures	10,565,287	9,859,342	9,416,556
*Includes Self Insurance, Worker’s Comp. and Health Insurance. Position of Risk & Safety Manager is shown in the General Fund in the Human Resources section.