2024-01-17 Salary Commission Minutes (Draft)

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Salary Commission January 17, 2024 could say it's sustainability. So, it's one of those things that are probably politically the right thing to do at this point in time and it has to define itself to what would become. So, I don't think there's not much we can do about that until a year or two when it becomes clearer. The information that was provided didn't have any of the data that the Council may have heard. It's just mostly legalistic stuff. What I was telling (inaudible) when I had a job that require these kind of things, I had a requirement that any resolution that came from the law department that was more than one page is automatically rejected. It has to have three parts one, you cannot cite more than two to four state, federal, and municipal Taws; Number 2, "whereases", must be limited to four; and "therefore, be it resolved" must be limited to three. In this particular case, I couldn't even do this. So, I hope we just set the salary and look at it two years from now and see what it has become. CHR. PAVAO: Yeah, I think that—this is Chair PavaoI think what Deputy Corporation Counsel pointed out is that the position and the agency is evolving and we don't have enough facts to even create a finding of facts at this point in time. So, probably the best thing to do is—well, my personal opinion, is to allow the salary to remain as it is and revisit in a year when the agency probably has evolved to a more semi-permanent status and this body could make a better informed decision. MS. GREENBAUM: I agree. MS. FRENZ: Director Sako, is this something you'd like to vet out as far as the applicability of postponing for that period of time before just out of curiosity. MS. SAKO: Yeah, I think we haven't really thought about that but that might be the best thing. I mean, it may be that we might be ready in six months to come back to the Commission and say, "Okay, now we really have more defined roles"—it probably still would be changing at that point, but we may have a much better idea of specifically what the roles are and what's coming out. This department may have already garnered millions of dollars of grants by that time. It's hard to say what might happen. But I think if we could—for sure, say, we come back in a year, but leave it open that Administration would have the opportunity to come back, let's say, in six or nine months if we felt that was the appropriate time where we had the duties better defined, the director can speak more intelligently about everything that they're doing versus us saying, "Well, we think they're going do A, B, and C." We'd also see how—as these grants come in, if they were really—if they remained with OSCER or if they were going out to departmentsI think we'd have a lot more information later. Page 11