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AGENDA TITLE: Adopt Resolution Approving a Five Percent Pay Increasefor the Community
Development Director Position
MEETING DATE: July 16,2008
PREPARED BY: City Manager
RECOMMENDEDACTION: Adopt Resolution approving a five percent (5%) pay increase
for the community Development Director.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: The City recently concluded recruitmentfor the Community
Development Director position. Those candidates rated the
highest in terms of qualifications and experience were invited
to interview before two panels comprised of current Community Development Directors and
interested citizens, including two members of the City Council. Upon the conclusion of the
interviews, and partially based upon the recommendations of the interview panels, no candidate
was selected to fill the vacant position.
Subsequent to the recruitment and interviews, a survey, using the city's "typical" survey cities,
was conducted of Community Development Director salaries. Using base salary alone, Lodi's
Community Development Director compensation is 18.6 percent less than the surveyed mean
average.
It is the City Manager's intention to re-recruitfor the position. It is assumed that the city's current
compensation depressed applicant interest. It is proposed to increase the advertised salary by
five percent. The new salary would range from a low of $9,848 to a high of $11,916.
Although a strong case could be made for an increase greater than five percent, (even with the
increase the base salary will be 13.6 percent lower than the average mean), and some might
say that the proposed increase is too small to generate a more qualified applicant pool, pay
equity within the executive management ranks prevents a greater increase. A five percent
increase for the Community Development Director will set this position's compensation
approximately $5,775 higher than that of the Police Chief or Public Works Director. In brief,
relationships between executive management cannot tolerate an increase of more than five
percent without a comprehensive adjustment of all management salaries, and timing in
relationship to the economy and labor negotiations do not support a review of executive
management salaries at this time.
APPROVED:
BlairKT, ' y Manager
Therefore, as a compromise between no change to base compensation and compensation that
would be very competitive but be much higher than other positions in the city, it is recommended
that the salary for the Community Development Director be increased by five percent.
It is the Manager's intention to begin the recruitment process as soon as possible
FISCAL IMPACT: The total all -in cost of a five percent increase in salary plus benefits at the
high end is approximately $12,000.
Blair King
City Manager
RESOLUTION NO. 2008-
A RESOLUTION OF THE LODI CITY COUNCIL
APPROVING FIVE PERCENT PAY INCREASE FOR
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR POSITION
BE IT RESOLVED, that the Lodi City Council hereby approves a five percent
(5%) pay increase for the Community Development Director position.
Dated: July 16, 2008
hereby certify that Resolution No. 2008- was passed and adopted by the
City Council of the City of Lodi in a regular meeting held July 16, 2008, by the following
vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS -
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS -
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS -
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS -
RANDIJOHL
City Clerk
2008-