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• <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: June 17, 2003 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: County Commissioners' Compensation -Salary Adjustment and <br />Health Insurance Continuation Policies <br />DEPARTMENT: County Commissioners' Office PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />and Personnel Department <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1 -Draft Revision to Board Policy - <br />Commissioners' Salary Adjustments <br />2 -Draft Revision to Board Policy, <br />°County Contribution For <br />Commissioners' Benefits" <br />3 -Survey of Commissioner/Council <br />Health Insurance Continuation <br />Options at End of Term <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Margaret Brown, Board Chair, <br />Extension 2130 <br />Elaine Holmes, Personnel Director, <br />Extension 2550 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider updating the Board's policy on "Commissioners' Salary Adjustments" <br />to include the same salary increases as those granted employees under the Classification and <br />Pay Study and amending the Board's policy on "County Contribution for Commissioner <br />Benefits" to provide that the County makes the same health insurance contribution for a County <br />Commissioner who leaves office after two terms and continues to participate in the County's <br />health insurance coverage as it does for a employee who retires with 10 years County service. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Salary Adjustments for County Commissioners <br />Over the past years the Board's policy has been to link salary adjustments for County <br />Commissioners to those increases provided for Orange County employees. In 1991 the Board <br />adopted a policy providing that Commissioners' salaries are adjusted by the amount of any <br />employee Cost of Living Increases. In 1999, the Board amended this policy to provide that <br />Commissioners' salaries also are adjusted in December of each year by the amount of any In- <br />Range Salary Increase granted employees for that year. <br />The Attachment 1 draft policy revision clarifies and refines the policy by linking Commissioners' <br />salary adjustments to any general salary increases adopted for County employees. For <br />example, for 2002-03, there has been no Cost of Living Increase or In-Range Salary Increase <br />• for employees and consequently no adjustment in Commissioners' salaries. For 2003-04 there <br />also is no planned Cost-of Living Increase or In-Range Salary Increase for employees. <br />However, the Board approved in May implementation of the Phase 1 Classification and Pay <br />Study for County employees and this included a 2.5 percent service based salary increase for <br />employees effective April 14, 2003. For 2003-04, Phase 2 implementation proposed for April <br />