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17 Brenda Bartholomew said it is very well used and can provide exact numbers to the BOCC. Commissioner Dorosin asked if it is known how many employees will be affected by the living wage increase. Brenda Bartholomew said it would mainly affect temporary and seasonal employees. Commissioner Dorosin referred to the compression reduction program, and asked if the $500,000 will go to adjusting salaries to relieve compression, or is part of it going towards studying the compression. Brenda Bartholomew said the $500,000 will go directly go to the employees. Commissioner Dorosin asked if the breakdown of the allocation could be explained. Brenda Bartholomew said, if the budget is adopted, there will be a 2% wage increase applied to all employees on July 1, 2016. She said, secondly, there would be a compression adjustment for those employees affected by compression, which is about 65% of employees, at an average adjustment of$750. She said on January 1, 2017, there will be a 1% wage increase applied to the post compression adjusted salary. Commissioner Dorosin said at some point, he would like to re-consider a sliding scale of percentage raises, in order to shift greater raises toward the lower paid employees, and more moderate raises to the higher paid employees. Bonnie Hammersley said Commissioner Dorosin's statement is the goal and with the recession, percentages were moved away from. She said the difficulty arises in finding ongoing revenue funds. She said core competencies will be looked at, so that employees know what will be expected in order to be a superior performer. She said there will be an implementation pilot this year, which will include employee input. She said the process of evaluating employees will also be reviewed. Commissioner Jacobs said years ago several of the lowest pay grades were eliminated. Commissioner Price said it was her understanding that all employees received $500 under the meritorious increase program, due to inconsistencies from department to department. Commissioner Jacobs said the Board had discussed making the system functional, which the Manager is currently working towards. Bonnie Hammersley said the percentage is consistent across the board but sometimes it is unclear to employees what is needed to be done in order to get these performance awards. Commissioner Price referred to the living wage and noted that interns are paid $14.00 per hour, which is more than the living wage that is given to employees. Brenda Bartholomew said there are some graduate interns that get paid around $13.75 per hour. Commissioner Dorosin said he was talking about across the board raises, and moving away from flat percentages to graduated percentages. He said the meritorious awards are a different program. A motion was made by Commissioner Burroughs, seconded by Commissioner Rich to adjourn the meeting at 10:36 p.m. VOTE: UNANIMOUS Earl McKee, Chair Donna Baker Clerk to the Board