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Regular City Council Meeting August 28, 2003 Page 9 3.43% raise. He said the Municipal Court Judge raises his salary by $3,000 each time and that is like a 5% salary increase from $46,000 to $48,000.00. City Manager Malone advised that the Judge is paid on an hourly basis and his pay is the same per hour, but there are more hours budgeted for the additional work. He does not get a cost of living increase. He is a contract employee and he is not in this pay plan. Councilman Bell said he had tried every way to figure a method of separating the employees out for raises. Councilman Bell said if he gives Mr. Malone a 3% raise it has a major dollar impact on the budget. Councilman Bell wanted to know what was the lowest starting paid employee that the city has and what does he make. Councilman Bell said he was going back to the question originally brought up by Councilwoman Neeley, when she wanted to know if they have to have equivalent raises from the lowest man to the highest man. He said he sees from the presentations by the Police and Fire Departments that the city has people in the low end and in the middle in. There are more employees in the middle that need more adjustment up because the starting salaries do not seem to be out of line. Those in the middle do not seem to be as competitive with other cities. Councilman Bell said he cannot speak as much about the high end because he has not analyzed whether Mr. Malone or even Mr. Anderson is under paid or over paid. City Manager Malone said the Council might do a compensation pay plan study. A study was done but there were questions from staff inembers as to whether it was valid. He did not know if staff will agree or if the Council will agree. City Manager Malone said a market survey could be done and you could find a variety of reasons why pay needs to be increased and then do it within the grade and step pay plan. He advised that not all employees are on a grade and step pay plan. The police and firefighters are civil service. They have a pay that they are hired at, and after one year they go to full pay for their position.