2023-08-04 Salary Commission Minutes

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Salary Commission August 4, 2023 ACTING CHR FARAHL I think there's—I'll ask the counsel to hold on the County Charter conversation for one second. One of the points that you made, sir the police commission—on behalf of the police commission, is the ingrained concept of low performance-based rewards are associated with the jobs. And that would automatically put you behind the eighth ball. Whether the County Charter allows it to be considered or not considered, the County Charter allows us—as I read it and I'm not a lawyer to consider all the criteria associated with developing the worth of the position. Whatever the worth of the position is, you need to base it upon some mental thing—and maybe someday the County decides that the manager or employee should have a separate category of merit pay or not. But you need to consider that they've been in there that increment would have been in their salary. That's why you fall behind the eighth ball, Commissioner, because whatever you decide today—let's say you set the salaries of two commissioners, the police chief and the fire chief at 240 or 220or whatever number you want. Once you pay for all the back arrears associated with not paying them for five years -2018? MS. FRENZ: Twenty -eighteen but there would not be arrears. It would start whenever a majority vote, here, took effect. Just to verify. ACTING CHR FARAHL So, you don't put— MS. ut MS. FRENZ: No, sir, we are not doing retroactive. ACTING CHR FARAHL Okay. So, again, that puts you in a different situation. I am in total agreement, we need to decide all of these similar to the comparative chart that you have. Then, you look at some of the backgrounds that came—background information that came from different entities that we asked them to give. Then look at the information the human resources provide. I'm not changing the job description, but I'm saying the job description determines the amount that is (inaudible), and the amount that needs to be associated with the position is what this body is supposed to decide. Correct? MR. BERTSCH: Chairman, thank you. Thank you for your comments. And I do appreciate you receiving my testimony. Points of clarification. When I was speaking, there's a couple of triggers. One, the commission has the overall the police commission and the fire commission, has the overall responsibility of providing an annual review of the performance of the chief and, subsequently, the deputy. Whether we provide that individual with a fantastic performance review, we still do not have the authority to escalate their pay or provide them with any type of additional compensation for doing a great job. Page 16