Agenda - 09-06-2016 - 6-a - Minutes

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16 1 Commissioner Price asked if the Go Triangle passes will be available to students. 2 Bonnie Hammersley said as of now the passes are just for employees, but other options 3 will be considered moving forward. 4 Travis Myren resumed the presentation: 5 6 Employee Pay and Benefits 7 • Employee Pay and Benefits 8 o Salary savings increased from 1.5% of budgeted salaries to 3.0% based on 9 experience - $1.5 million total 10 o 3% across the board increase split 7/1/16 and 1/1/17 11 o No in-range adjustments 12 o Meritorious Service Awards — recommends three levels as one time performance 13 bonuses 14 ➢ $500 — proficient performance 15 ➢ $750 —superior performance 16 ➢ $1,000 — exceptional performance 17 o Compression Reduction Program - $500,000 18 o No changes to retirement, health, or dental premium contributions 19 o Living wage increase to $13.15 per hour for all County employees - $32,400 20 o Retiree health insurance - $151,409 increase (8%)for Medicare eligible enrolled 21 employees 22 23 Commissioner Jacobs asked if the BOCC could receive a chart of the meritorious 24 service awards since the recession. 25 Commissioner Jacobs asked if there is an update about the tuition reimbursement 26 program. 27 Brenda Bartholomew said it is very well used and can provide exact numbers to the 28 BOCC. 29 Commissioner Dorosin asked if it is known how many employees will be affected by the 30 living wage increase. 31 Brenda Bartholomew said it would mainly affect temporary and seasonal employees. 32 Commissioner Dorosin referred to the compression reduction program, and asked if the 33 $500,000 will go to adjusting salaries to relieve compression, or is part of it going towards 34 studying the compression. 35 Brenda Bartholomew said the $500,000 will go directly go to the employees. 36 Commissioner Dorosin asked if the breakdown of the allocation could be explained. 37 Brenda Bartholomew said, if the budget is adopted, there will be a 2% wage increase 38 applied to all employees on July 1, 2016. She said, secondly, there would be a compression 39 adjustment for those employees affected by compression, which is about 65% of employees, at 40 an average adjustment of$750. She said on January 1, 2017, there will be a 1% wage 41 increase applied to the post compression adjusted salary. 42 Commissioner Dorosin said at some point, he would like to re-consider a sliding scale of 43 percentage raises, in order to shift greater raises toward the lower paid employees, and more 44 moderate raises to the higher paid employees. 45 Bonnie Hammersley said Commissioner Dorosin's statement is the goal and with the 46 recession, percentages were moved away from. She said the difficulty arises in finding ongoing 47 revenue funds. She said core competencies will be looked at, so that employees know what 48 will be expected in order to be a superior performer. She said there will be an implementation 49 pilot this year, which will include employee input. She said the process of evaluating employees 50 will also be reviewed.