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Salary Commission <br />MR. RIORDAN: Yes. <br />August 4, 2023 <br />MR. NELSON: I think we do set the salaries. So, well, you're right, the mayor—as the boss <br />should be setting the salaries. We're actually the boss for the salaries. <br />MR. RIORDAN: No, I <br />MR. NELSON: The mayor's the boss, but we set the salaries. <br />MR. RIORDAN: No, I that's what I'm saying is that's what we do. We set the salaries. We <br />don't go into the job description. That isn't our call. That's the mayor's call because he's the <br />one that says, "This is the people I need to hire." <br />MR. NELSON: He defines the job. Yeah, you're right. I agree with you. <br />MR. RIORDAN: And that we can get stuck—we'll be here for a long time, if we go through <br />every person's job description and say whether (inaudible). <br />MR. NELSON: But we do—we have all the information that we asked for him about the scope <br />of their job. <br />MR. RIORDAN: Right. <br />MR. NELSON: So, we do need to evaluate that, right? I mean, that iswe asked for that stuff, <br />they sent it all—somehow, that needs to be looked at, right—to factor in what he's saying, `cause <br />that—'cause they gave us a budget—some of them there're different responses. But they gave <br />us a budget—"Oh, I manage a budget of $10 million and 500 people" that's a different job that, <br />"Oh, I manage a bunch of them, $200,000.00 and I got two people"so, there's different scopes. <br />And that's what I think that determines what each individual (inaudible) gets paid. <br />So, I do think that's part of our job. I mean, you're right. A lot of these guys just came back and <br />said, "Well, the bargaining unit guys, they all got 18 percent" which, I think, very relevant. <br />And now I make less than the guy that works for me that's very relevant. But—and so, one <br />way would be adjust it that way. But we still, I think, need to look at the different jobs, `cause <br />there are market rates. And, like you say, for the physician the medical examiner—okay, <br />physician rates, whatever, how they fit in the scale for that. And then, like, the parks director <br />there's a different scale. <br />And some of these guys gave us, like, one guy I was looking at in the county in Arizona they <br />gave us salary surveys. Which isa salary survey where I worked physician salaries that's <br />how we priced the physician rates. We had salary surveys and people get (inaudible) based on <br />those averages. <br />Page 9 <br />