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APPROVED 1217199 <br />MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />WORK SESSION <br />April 21, 1999 <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met on Wednesday, April 21, 1999 at 7:30 <br />p.m. in the Board Room at the Southern Human Services Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Alice M. Gordon and Commissioners <br />Margaret W. Brown, Moses Carey, Jr., Stephen H. Halkiotis and Barry Jacobs <br />COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Assistant County <br />Managers Rod Visser and Albert Kittrell, and Clerk to the Board Beverly A. Blythe (All other staff <br />members will be identified appropriately below) <br />NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE <br />PERMANENT AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. ALL <br />RECORDINGS OF THE MEETING WILL BE KEPT FOR 5 YEARS. <br />Chair Gordon called the meeting to order and summarized the agenda. She suggested <br />adding the closed session from last evening to the end of this meeting. The Board decided that <br />if they were finished by 10:00 they would add this closed session. If they do not get to it by <br />10:00, they will discuss whether or not they want to do it. <br />1. Employee Pay and Benefits Changes for 1999-2000 <br />This item was presented for the Board's confirmation of the components of the employee <br />pay and benefits plan for 1999-2000 as a result of the Board's October 13, 1998 employee <br />compensation work session. The Board also considered implementing the policy details. <br />John Link said that there would be three work sessions to present elements of the <br />budget to the Board of County Commissioners. He is not asking for approval of any portion of <br />what they present, but is asking for confirmation. <br />John Link made reference to the pay plan and the material as distributed with the <br />agenda for this meeting. He reminded the Board that in the October 1998 work session they <br />reached consensus on the pay and benefits components and decided on a two-year plan with <br />these components. He said they have put two options in place to deal with the two personal <br />leave days. He asked the Board to let the staff know if the components are not what they <br />expected. The funding decisions will be finalized as part of the June deliberations on the <br />budget as a whole. <br />Personnel Director Elaine Holmes reviewed, using overheads, what the County <br />Commissioners had agreed to for the pay and benefits components from the October 1998 work <br />session. These changes include COLA and in-range salary progression, meritorious service <br />awards, 401(k) plan contribution, personal leave days, equity/retention fund, and a two-year <br />plan. She explained each component as described in the Pay and Benefits Implementation <br />Report, Section B of the notebook. She pointed out the cost estimates for all of the changes, as <br />shown in Section C of the report. She then welcomed any questions from the Board. <br />Chair Gordon said that this Pay and Benefits Implementation Report is what the Board <br />talked about in October. In Section A, the Board needs to confirm what they did in October, and <br />in Section B they need to decide what to do with the two personal leave days. She said the