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Regular City Council Meeting <br />December 8, 2003 <br />Page 13 <br /> <br />ranks so there would be incentives for people to desire promotion and to test <br />for promotions. Mr. Anderson said they looked at total compensation, and not <br />just the base pay because they felt it was relevant. They also considered the <br />issue of whether or not, if there was going to be an increase, what type increase <br />it would be, and they think from that analysis any increase should be treated as <br />an add on and not a step. Because they think there are legal problems with <br />steps within civil service. This would be an add-on like certificate pay is an <br />add-on. <br /> <br />Mr. Anderson said they reviewed the cities that the Police Chief had proposed, <br />Bonham, Denison, Greenville, Sherman, and Mt. Pleasant and what was on the <br />spread sheet that he had given the Council is a list of the patrolmen grouped by <br />seniority, whether they have been with the city for at least a year, but less than <br />five years, five years to ten years, and ten years to fifteen years on the first <br />page. He said the higher ranks are on the second page. He advised that the <br />first column is their base rate as it exists currently. The next column is <br />maximum average wage of those cities that were surveyed. The third column <br />is the difference in the city's base and that maximum average wage base. The <br />fourth column is the Police Chief' s request and the fifth column is the cost of <br />his request. Mr. Anderson said in the first group of patrolmen, what is being <br />proposed is an annual increase of $600.00 in the one to five year group. In the <br />five to nine year group they are proposing an annual increase of $1,284.00 and <br />from the ten to fifteen group, they are proposing $2,284.00, and fifteen years <br />or more, it is $3,784.00. The request for a Corporal is $3,002.00, for a <br />Sergeant is $4,460.00, for a Lieutenant $3,628.00 and the increase for the <br />Assistant Police Chief is $3,778.00. Mr. Anderson advised that after the <br />modifications were made the estimated cost of implementation would be <br />$168,250.36 and he felt that falls into a reasonable estimate of the savings that <br />could be obtained by the things that were proposed by the Police Chief. Those <br />changes were reduction of overtime, elimination of two positions, and he <br />discounted the reduction of one vehicle because that is a one time reduction <br />and they needed to keep the cost within reductions that reoccur. <br /> <br />Mr. Anderson said it is his recommendation that this plan be implemented by <br /> <br /> <br />