A year ago, City Manager Marla Marcinko spoke of her plan to relieve Omar Strohm, director of Personnel and Finance, of his finance responsibilities — so Strohm could focus on updating personnel policies, procedures and job descriptions.

The personnel directorship had been Strohm’s original job with the city, but he hadn’t been able to devote all his energies there for years, because of additional responsibilities assumed when vacancies occurred — responsibilities that included the role of interim city manager for a time.

Now, it seems, Strohm won’t be retreating back to his original post, after all:

Last week, in response to a question about a city help wanted for a legislative aide, Marcinko outlined her revised plan, which will leave Strohm in charge of personnel and finance — but with fewer routine responsibilities.

The plan involves a complicated reshuffling of duties among several employees, and it meshes with a previous recent shift of the Codes and Inspections Department away from the fourth-floor planning office to the first floor:

— Planning office employee Rebecca Brown is now manager of Codes and Inspections.

— To handle some of the routine responsibilities previously handled by Brown, clerk associate Megan Klein, who previously split her time between codes and finance, will work only in codes.

— Some of Strohm’s routine finance duties will go to Deputy Finance Director Bessie Mosey.

— Some of Mosey’s routine duties, in turn, will go to current mayoral secretary Mary George, who left the mayor’s office to work in finance.

— The soon-to-be-hired part-time legislative aide will take George’s place in the mayor’s office, providing support that includes research and attendance at some events as a representative of Mayor Matt Pacifico.

— A soon-to-be-hired full-time personnel employee will take care of the policies, procedures and job descriptions that Strohm had been going to work on as part of the original plan.

Marcinko worked out the reshuffling largely during discussions on budgeting for 2017, she said.

The want ad, which appeared in the Mirror on Jan. 31, calls for someone who “will perform a variety of routine administrative functions, manage the daily schedule of the mayor and track issues in the legislative process.”

Marcinko’s new plan — which involves adding the equivalent of 1.5 employees to the workforce — will cost significantly less than the original plan to hire a new finance director, given both salary and benefits, Marcinko said.

The new plan was an attempt to match assignments “to appropriate skill sets, so as not to overwhelm anybody and to achieve the desired results,” Marcinko said.

Keeping Strohm’s oversight in both finance and personnel reflects his “great experience,” Marcinko said.

“He’s terribly competent,” she added.

Mirror Staff Writer William Kibler is at 949-7038.