AGENDA #10

MEMORANDUM

TO:                  Town Council

FROM:            Rosemary Waldorf, Mayor

SUBJECT:       Salary Increases for Town Manager and Town Attorney

DATE:             September 11, 2000

As agreed to by the Council in closed session on September 1, 2000, the attached personnel ordinance and budget ordinance would implement salary increases for the Town Manager and Town Attorney, effective October 20, 2000.

                                    Current salary                           October 20, 2000  salary

Town Manager             $107,235                                             $121,000

Town Attorney             $99,091                                              $110,000

Attachment:      Salary survey data collected by Dr. Steve Condrey (the consultant who conducted the Town’s general classification and pay review earlier this year) and by Personnel Director Pat Thomas

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE POSITION CLASSIFICATION AND PAY PLAN DATED OCTOBER 20, 2000  (2000-09-11 /O-8)

BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the Town of Chapel Hill that the Ordinance Establishing a Position Classification and Pay Plan (2000-06-26 /O-10) is amended as follows:

In Section IV, part B, under Elected and Appointed Officials, DELETE the lines

Position:                                   No.                 

Town Manager             1                      $107,235

Town Attorney             1                      $  99,091

and ADD the lines

            Position:                       No.                 

Town Manager             1                      $121,000

Town Attorney             1                      $109,000

This the 11^th day of  September, 2000

Personnel Department - Town of Chapel Hill

306 North Columbia Street

Chapel Hill, North Carolina  27516

(919) 968-2700  /   fax (919) 968-2839

August 15,  2000

TO:                                                         Mayor Waldorf

FROM:                   Pat Thomas, Personnel Director

SUBJECT:              Salaries of Managers and Attorneys in area organizations

Attached is information that you requested for salaries of City/County Managers and chief executive officers working for surrounding governmental jurisdictions.  I’ve also attached salary information from Dr. Steve Condrey, the consultant who did the Town’s general classification and pay review earlier this year.

You asked about the salary increases that Town employees will receive October 20, 2000.  The average increase that employees will receive is 6.31%:

·      For employees with salaries below the new Job Rate:        If performance is acceptable, salaries will be adjusted to a step in the new salary range. Employees who have completed probation will receive an additional step in the new range so that salaries will be distributed through the new range and will not be compressed with those of new employees.  These step and compression adjustments for below job rate employees will average 6.69%

·      For employees with salaries at or above the new Job Rate: Employees will receive an average increase of 4.25%, with the amount of the increase varying based on the performance rating.  Although we won’t know the distribution of increases until all of the departmental ratings are submitted and the increases calculated, we anticipate that the increases would range from approximately 2% for an employee rated Needs Improvement to approximately 5.5% for an employee rated Outstanding.

If the Manager and Attorney’s salaries were adjusted at the same percentage as the Townwide average 6.31% employee increase, their new salaries would be:

                Town Manager:                    $114,002 (currently  $107,235)

                Town Attorney:                   $105,344  (currently   $99,091)

I also note that the new salary range for the Assistant Manager position is $78,054 - $117, 081. (On October 20^th Flo and Sonna’s salaries will be adjusted to $92,478, step 3 of their salary range.)

Salaries of area Managers, August, 2000 [1]