Placement: Consent Agenda
Action Requested: Motion / Vote
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Annual Review and Approval of the City’s Pay Plan
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Submitted By: Natalie Cabrera, Assistant Director, Human Resources
Strategic Plan Link: The City's Goal of a high-performing city government organization.
Executive Summary (General Business): The City Council last approved revisions to the City’s civilian Pay Plan in February of 2020. Since that time, there have been numerous changes to the Plan due to the creation of new position titles, reclassification of current positions, and adjustments to the pay grades assigned to positions based on market research and/or internal equity issues. Additionally, Management Directed Policy (#17-02) dictates the City’s Pay Plan shall be reviewed and approved by the City Council annually. The purpose of this review is to: 1) Enable departments to have a confirmed/approved document from which to develop annual budgets in regard to personnel management; 2) Keep the Pay Plan up-to-date to provide a consistent document from which to conduct periodic market-basket reviews of select/specific positions; 3) Provide the Council with an annual perspective of how current market and economic factors are impacting the workforce; 4) Have a current document as reference for conducting future Pay and Classification studies.
Presentation Information: N/A
Staff Recommendation: Move that the Council approve the revised Pay Plan.
Alternate Recommendations:
1. Move that the Council amend the recommendation and approve the Pay Plan with revisions requested by Council.
2. Move that the Council not approve the Pay Plan and provide staff direction.
Background: The City is a very dynamic organization that requires changes to personnel assignments regularly.
Issues/Analysis: The Human Resources Department conducts a job analysis whenever a position is proposed for reclassification, or when a new position title is created. Once the job analysis is completed, there is an empirical formula used to assign points to the position and initially placing it in a pay grade. Market research is conducted to compare similar positions to ensure that the City is paying a fair market rate for the work performed.
Financial Information: There is no additional cost to the approval of the Pay Plan. Any changes that have been made to the Pay Plan have been financed with money available through the annual budget approved by Council.
Special Consideration: N/A
Location of Project: N/A
Attachments:
1) List of all Pay Plan changes authorized by the City Manager since it was last approved by Council February 2020.
2) Revised Pay Plan, inclusive of all authorized changes.
NOTE: All of the listed items in the “Attachment” section above are in the custody of the City Clerk. Any item(s) not provided in City Council packets are available upon request from the City Clerk.
LEGAL SUFFICIENCY REVIEW:
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