HomeMy WebLinkAbout2001 04 23 Regular A Final Vote on Salary Increase for City Clerk
COMMISSION AGENDA
ITEM A
Consent
Informational
Public Hearing
Regular X
April 23, 2001
Meetmg
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Mgr. / Dept.
Authorization
REQUEST: The City Manager requests a determination and final vote on a salary increase
for the City Clerk, effective October 1, 2000, based on supplemental information provided
below.
PURPOSE: The purpose of this agenda item is to present supplemental information to the
Commission which impacts their decision on a salary increase granted to the City Clerk at the
April 9, 2001, Commission meeting.
CONSIDERATIONS:
1. At the April 9, 2001, Commission meeting, it was the consensus of the Commission that
the City Clerk was in a special category of employee (which includes the City Manager and
the City Attorney), primarily because she is a direct appointee of the Commission.
2. The Commission has assumed the sole discretionary authority over her salary increases,
thereby making her exempt from the requirements and restrictions of the merit system pay
plan in the city's Personnel Policies.
3. Concurrently, the performance evaluation completed by the City Manager on the City
Clerk (because of day-to-day reporting practices) becomes essentially an "advisory"
document.
4. For the two budget years ending September 30, 2000, a merit system employee with over
five years of service was entitled to 2% above hislher merit increase. That 2% was
intended as compensation for pay inequities which had developed over previous years, but
those inequities were addressed in last summer's so-called "Cody Study," and the 2% for
longevity ended on September 30, 2000.
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5. With the City Clerk exempt from the merit system, she - like the City Manager and the
City Attorney - is no longer automatically entitled to that 2% longevity, even though she
had more than five years of service as of her September 30, 2000, anniversary date.
6. Therefore, it is assumed the $3,000 raise the Commission granted her, which represents a
7.5% increase over her previous salary, included considerations for longevity and
performance.
7. However, since it is not certain that the Commission recalled the 2% rule for longevity, the
following alternatives are offered.
AL TERNATIVES:
1. Is the City Manager to assume that the 7.5% increase the Commission awarded to the City
Clerk inclusive of longevity and performance? If so, her salary will increase from $40,000
to $43,000.
2. In the alternative, does the Commission desire that the 2% rule for longevity be applied as
it would for all other merit plan employees (6% maximum merit increase plus 2% for
longevity, for a total of 8%)? This alternative would raise her salary from $40,000 to
$43,200.
RECOMMENDATION:
The City Manager requests that the Commission clarify its intent relative to the City
Clerk's salary increase as discussed above.
COMMISSION ACTION: