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<br /> <br />Page 12 <br />1 <br />they're generally ahead of the curve when it comes to <br />2 <br />inversion. <br />3 <br />MR. HIGGINS: Yeah. <br />4 <br />MR. BRILHANTE: And I think that's what <br />5 <br />happens is when the department heads and deputies' <br />6 <br />salaries are adjusted and then there's a lag, what <br />7 <br />happens is the union, their counterpart, collective <br />8 <br />bargaining counterparts or mid-level manager, they're <br />9 <br />getting annual raises. <br />10 <br />MS. GREENBAUM: It's built in already. <br />11 <br />MR. BRILHANTE: Yeah. So, those wheels don't <br />12 <br />stop turning. <br />13 <br />So, if you don't give raises for a year or <br />14 <br />two to department heads, it's inevitable that, at some <br />15 <br />point, there's going to be an inversion. <br />16 <br />MR. HIGGINS: Yeah, because we ran into that. <br />17 <br />That sounds really doable to me because there's no <br />18 <br />sticker shock on that. So, when that automatic -- for <br />19 <br />the top echelon, they get a 2 percent every year, or an <br />20 <br />adjustment, whereas we tried to catch up on ten years, <br />21 <br />and we had 30, 40, 50 percent. Talk about sticker <br />22 <br />shock. It's unbelievable. Is it possible for us to do <br />23 <br />something like that? Maybe that would be -- we've <br />24 <br />never considered that. <br />25 <br />MR. BRILHANTE: You know, that's something <br /> <br />ISLAND COURT REPORTING & TRANSCRIPTION SERVICES <br />(808) 933-9800 <br /> <br />