2024-01-17 Salary Commission Minutes (Draft)

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Salary Commission January 17, 2024 So, that's basically, kind of, where we were going with that thought process. And (inaudible) it is—it's challenging to know everything that this position's going to do. I don't want to undersell it but I don't want to oversell it. We just—we haven't—we—it just hasn't had enough time to get going. Research and Development is doing some of the duties, like, they helped to get that Climate Action Plan and everything up and going and established. And so, we're even are still continuing to determine what things might go to the OSCER department and what might stay with Research Development. And our Deputy Director of Research and Development is also in the audience should you have any questions. So, we're just—it is a work -in -progress and I actuallyI don't think a one-year contract is a bad idea. I'm not sure how often on this Commission's planning on meeting, but we—it is a work- in -progress and it's challenging for us to give you a lot of details right now. MR. FARAHL What's your role in the department? MS. SAKO: So, as the Managing Director, I help the Mayor oversee all 21 departments of the County has and OSCER is one of them. Yes. And we do tend to work a little more closely with our agency heads, such as Transient Animal Control things like that. Like I said, this is the first agency or office where we actually having an appointed department head. So, we're not sure yet the amount of oversight that will be required for the position as well. MS. FRENZ: I presume everyone this is DCC Cody Frenz—recognizes the name, if you haven't met her—but we're Lucky in the sense that our Managing Director—our new Managing Director's also our former Finance Director for many years, right. So, I think we're lucky in the sense that she has many caps and will probably continue to always wear many caps in that sense, but she also has the County's financial best interest in mind and is very familiar with that situation as well. So, I think that's a benefit—if you didn't know that—FYI. MR. NELSON: Do you know when you negotiated a salary with this person. I mean, what was their expectations, I guess. Are they expectingoh, okay, I took as a bare minimum or I expect the 20% raise if I do a good jobI mean, was there those discussions? MS. SAKO: Is actually yes, we negotiated but we advertised a range and it was from the minimum of the EM3 schedule to the middle of the EM3—and we awarded that upper end, the middle of the EM3. Yes. And so, when the—when everyone applied for the position, that was the salary expectations at the time. MR. FARAHL (Inaudible) run for whatever reason, the Mayor's Office and the Council approved this, there are elements as I said of everything in it. You could even say it's affirmative action. You could say it's just management. You could say it's environmental. We Page 10