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Laura Blackmon said that her recommendation is to not adopt the expanded pay grades of the Archer Study because it was so expensive. The recommendation was to adopt the job descriptions, keep the County's pay grade, and do the reclassifications as part of the budget process. The modifications are just title changes. Commissioner Gordon said that she does not know what the budget implications are and the Board has never really discussed this. Commissioner Yuhasz said that there are at least four positions where the pay grade is going down. He asked if these were occupied positions and Laura Blackmon said yes. These employees are aware of this reclassification. Michael McGinnis said that in all of those cases there is not any adjustment to these employees' salaries. Commissioner Yuhasz said that doing this reclassification does not mean that the Board accepts the Archer Study. He wants to make that clear. Michael McGinnis said that the disparity between the $1,675,000 (p. 22 of Appendix A) and the $900,000 is the $500,000 for the 401(k) and the $275,000 for the health insurance increase. Commissioner Gordon made reference to Decision Point 1 on Attachment 3 and suggested revisiting the Employee Pay and Compensation decisions if needed when going through the budget. She pointed out that the last thing on the agenda is adoption of the annual operating budget. She said that this is not correct and that it should be approval of the intent to adopt the budget and not the actual adoption of the budget tonight. The Board was in agreement with the retirement plan. Service Delivery Changes as Included in the FY 2009-10 County Manager's Recommended Annual Operating Budget: Laura Blackmon said that the two main items for discussion were Solid Waste and the Library. Commissioner Yuhasz said that when the Board comes back in the fall, he wants to look at personal mileage and personal time versus County vehicles and mileage, etc. Commissioner Jacobs suggested having an item on the agenda for June 16th with a list of items the County Commissioners would like to talk about in the fall so that there can be agreement. Commissioner Nelson respectfully disagreed because the list of proposed discussion items is a lot and there is already a rolling calendar that has so many items on it. Laura Blackmon said that the Board should spend some time in the very beginning of the fall identifying, out of the whole list, what the Board will focus on in the next year. Commissioner Jacobs said that he does not care how it is done, but he just knows that many times in the budget processes, the County Commissioners have told staff to follow up with items and no one remembers them afterwards. Commissioner Nelson suggested referring the list to staff to schedule as a discussion item on the rolling list for the fall.