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Regular City Council Meeting <br />August 28, 2003 <br />Page 10 <br />In the grade and step pay plan you are generally hired in at step 1 and within <br />three years you progress through to step 5, which is the step that the market <br />says that job is worth. The city experiences a savings over that three year <br />period rather than hiring someone at step 5 and the only time they would do <br />that is if they have a position that is classified lower than what the market is <br />and the city is having a problem finding a person who has the skills for that j ob, <br />they might hire somebody at a step 3, or step 4, or step 5, and not changing the <br />pay plan. City Manager Malone said if the Council thinks that Maintenance <br />Workers I are not fairly compensated with relation to what local industry pays, <br />or somebody doing a similar job locally, then, you go in and you change their <br />classification. You reclassify those employees, butyou have to be careful when <br />you do that because there are other people that are in that grade and step who <br />will look over there and say wait, there are reasons that they should be <br />reclassified. He said if you want to be fair, you give a cost of living increase <br />based on inflation to all employees by applying it to the pay plan or that <br />position. If you want to consider the pay for an employee that is under paid <br />after that is done, you reclassify that position. Mr. Anderson said to get up to <br />market it takes three years. <br />Mayor Fendley asked if that is one of the services that TML provides. Mr. <br />Anderson said that they really do not provide that service, but they do a survey <br />that the city looks at every year to try to analyze it ourselves. <br />City Manager Malone noted that the city has some job titles that may be the <br />same as other cities, but our people have more duties assigned to them. <br />Mr. Anderson advised that the answer to Councilman Bell's question if <br />$17,339.00 and goes up to $21,136.00 or that they start at $8.36 an hour and <br />tops at $10.16 an hour. The city has one person in that slot. <br />Councilman Bell wanted to clarify, because he thought he misunderstood, every <br />employee from the lowest paid position to Larry Schenk contributes the <br />percentage of retirement the council sets, and the city will match that two for <br />