05 City Council Minutes 02-25-08

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Regular City Council Meeting February 25, 2008 Page 4 Mayor Freelen advised Council this item was tabled at a previous meeting and should they wish to discuss this matter, he would need a motion to bring it from the table. A Motion to bring the item from the table was made by Council Member Wilson and seconded by Council Member Brown. Motion carried, 5 ayes - 0 nays. City Council discussed at length pool cars, purchasing of new vehicles, mileage logs and in general car allowances for department heads. Council Member Gray arrived to the meeting at 6:50 p.m. Kevin Carruth stated the positions who were promised car allowances as part of their packages were the police chief, fire chief, EMS director, finance director, community development director, city engineer/public works director and assistant city attorney. A Motion to restore car allowances to the police chief, fire chief, EMS director, finance director, community development director, city engineer/public works director and assistant attorney was made by Council Member Biard and seconded by Council Member Gray. Motion carried, 6 ayes - 0 nays. It was a consensus of City Council for the city clerk, city attorney and city utilities director, as well as all other city employees to file reimbursement of miles driven in their personal cars on city business. A Motion to make this retroactive to January 1, 2008, was made by Council Member Brown and seconded by Council Member Fisher. Motion carried, 6 ayes - 0 nays. 12. Deliberate and act on establishment of unified non-civil service pay plan. Mayor Freelen advised Council this item was tabled at a previous meeting and should they wish to discuss this matter, he would need a motion to bring it from the table. A Motion to bring the item from the table was made by Council Member Biard and seconded by Council Member Gray. Motion camed, 6 ayes - 0 nays. Gene Anderson went through the proposed combined pay plan. He said he had received several complaints regarding employees being on two different pay scales. Gene explained the proposed consolidated plan had 75 grades, each with 10 steps, and it would take a minimum of 20 years to top out. He also stated the first five steps of the consolidated plan were identical to the Z plan and steps six and seven of the combined pay plan were the same as steps four and five of the old plan. Gene also said steps eight, nine, and ten of the consolidated plan were entirely new steps. Council discussed the additional cost of expanding to ten steps.