This work session of the Eloy City Council, held on Monday, March 18, 2024, at 5:00 p.m., focused on the findings and recommendations of the City of Eloy Employee Compensation and Classification Study conducted by HR Know Consulting. The council reviewed proposed salary adjustments to address market competitiveness, compression, and retention, followed by a presentation on funding options from city staff. Council members discussed affordability, long-term sustainability, and heard public testimony from employees. The session concluded with direction to staff to prepare a budget incorporating a 100% market adjustment and a 4% cost-of-living increase (COLA) for the next fiscal year, and to explore the feasibility of early implementation.
Mayor have 530. Good evening. Welcome to tonight's work session. It is Monday, March 18th, 2024. Time's approximately 530. I call this meeting to order. Mayor, can I get a roll call, please? Councilmember Seton. Here. Councilmember Juanato Rodriguez. Here. Vice Mayor Curtis? Here. Mayor Powell? Here. Councilmember Snyder. Here. Councilmember Garcia? Present. Councilmember Tarangle. Thank you. Here. Oh sorry, thank you. We can all stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, Michelle. And to the public for which it stands one nation under God's role, whether it's justice or all. Thank you. We're gonna go to any unscheduled public appearances. I assume not at this point. So they're only here for the one topic that we're gonna discuss, so if anybody would like to talk at that time, we'll give them an opportunity. David. Thank you, Mayor, members of council. Um tonight we have Igor, and I'm gonna butcher your last name so I apologize. Shagov. Shagolov. Um here he's uh from HR Consulting now, and he presented and prepared all of our study findings over the past well almost a year now. We've been working diligently at this about this time last year. Uh one of the major uh things that we extrapolated from the study is we originally did it as a whole list of all employees, and then about halfway through the year we you know, I'd been approached by the police department at that time regarding some salary disparity between neighboring communities. So we re-examined that and as a result we decided it was best to pull that data out. So tonight you'll see not what's generally not typical of a common class study. You usually have all the employees of all positions in one. In this one we have the employees and then we segregated the PD as well. So we can kind of take a comparative look at all city employees versus just the police department and what actions might need to be taken to help with the police. So Igor will present his findings for you first, and then uh once we go through that answer questions and comments, then we'll roll into the city portion of the presentation, which is funding, how we're gonna be able to afford some of the recommendations that are being presented here and thank you. Uh but the I'd like to start with um introducing my company and uh explaining who we are and what we do. Uh we are independent consulting firm. Uh we provide uh compensation classification services for uh all uh uh private and uh non prof non profit and of course government uh agencies and organizations for now for uh about twenty years. I'm gonna skip this uh marketing pitch. Uh just wanted to tell you that uh we dedicated to your organization and we will follow up on any calibration, uh any follow-up uh uh calculations and uh we'll do good service to you. Those are just uh recent projects and cities uh government agencies that we worked for. Developed similar projects in classification compensation.