5.4. SR 08-14-2006
City of Elk River
REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION
Agenda Section Meeting Date
Worksession Au st 14,2006
Item Description
Pa Plan Reclassification Stud
Administrator
Introduction
Staff has continued to work with Rod Kelsey to complete the city's pay plan reclassification study. The
study will not be complete by Monday. At the meeting, we will provide an update on our progress and
request consideration of the step increases for some employees.
Discussion
Since this was last presented to the Council, department heads reviewed the hierarchy and subsequendy
have requested that certain positions be reviewed again to ensure that they are valued correcdy. There
were more requests for review than expected so this has taken longer than originally planned. However,
it is important that all of the positions be reviewed in depth to ensure that they are valued accurately.
Human Resources Representative Lauren Wipper has also been conducting a benchmark study using the
twelve cities approved by the Council. If data is not available from those cities for a position, other
information has been gathered so that there is at least some benchmark that can be used. The benchmark
study is almost complete. Each of the positions has been reviewed again against the benchmark data to
catch any possible errors in the hierarchy.
Based on the benchmarks, a new pay plan will be developed. That is the process that we are currendy
working on and plan to have to the Council by August 21 or the following meeting. Because the Council
has approved a motion to continue with the 2006 pay plan for 2006, the delay in approving this is not an
issue.
Finally, five employees were due step increases on July 1, but because their positions had not been placed
in the pay plan yet, the step increases did not take place. These positions have now been reviewed and
their position in the pay plan has been established. A recommendation from the Personnel Committee
on retroactive step increases for those five employees will be presented at the meeting.
Financial Impact
None
Attachments
None
Action Requested
Action to consider retroactive step increases as noted above based on the recommendation to be
presented at the meeting.
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