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City Council Meeting May 7, 2001 Page 2 for the city. Mr. Simmons called the City Council's attention to the first section of the study which was a presentation of findings for review and discussion purposes only, and the items that he was going to review included the overview of the project; internal job analysis and evaluation process; market data collection methodology; summary of Paris salaries versus market; structure recommendations; and salary adjustment recommendations. On page 3, Mr. Simmons said, is a list of projects. The first one was the Internal Job Evaluation Program which refers to the internal fairness of all the positions in the city. He said his organization evaluated, based upon the input from the city's employees, the value of several different compensable factors that are found in every position. He said their firm analyzed information that was supplied by city employees in the job description questionnaire and placed those positions into an internal hierarchy. He said they also designed a market-based salary structure for exempt and nonexempt into the public safety positions. The report includes salary adjustment recommendations and a series of guidelines for salary implementation and administration to go forward. Mr. Simmons said they delivered to the City Manager a detailed summary report of all the marketing data that they have collected by position. Mr. Simmons pointed out that the internal job evaluation was on page 4. Two different systems were used to evaluate positions. One was for exempt positions and one for non-exempt positions. He advised that public safety positions were placed in a paramilitary ranking system. Mr. Simmons stated that the summarized results of the evaluation were on page five. He said his staff had looked at 26 exempted positions and 63 non- exempted positions, and based upon their evaluation, they placed those 26 exempted positions into 11 grade levels or ranges, and the 63 non-exempt positions were placed into 12 grade levels or ranges. Mr. Simmons again said this did not include the police and fire positions.