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Item 4.8. MEMORANDUM TO: FROM: DATE: Mayor and City Council Pat Klaers, City Administrato~~ December 15, 2003 SUBJECT: Consider Resolution Adopting 2004 Pay Plan for Non-Organized Employees Attached for your review and consideration is the 2004 pay plan resolution for non-organized employees. This resolution is very similar to past pay plan resolutions. The pay plan calls for all ranges to increase by 3% on January 1, 2004. This is the wage increase which employees will receive. The resolution also provides a $15 per month, per employee increase in the city contribution to health insurance. Action on the insurance amount was taken by the City Council on November 17, 2003. Last year, the City Council acknowledged the establishment of a city Wellness Committee and Program and formally approved the benefits that the program was planning to offer to city employees. The benefits include a discount for employees who participate in wellness related recreation programs. This statement is now included within the pay resolution. Additionally, the city offered six hours of paid wellness training during the year and these one hour sessions took place approximately every other month. The wellness program was reasonably successful for its first year and it is recommend that the program continues for 2004. In this regard, the motion approving the pay plan should also acknowledge wellness training benefits as noted above. Please see the attached update memo on this topic from Recreation Manager Michele Bergh. It should also be noted that this resolution does not include any reference to the Building Inspectors pay. As the Council may recall, on January 28, 2002, a motion was approved to increase the Building Inspectors pay by $3,000. In most cases, this now means that the Inspectors are approximately $3,090 above top pay and that this amount will be increasing by 3%. Each year that this $3,000 amount above top pay increases by 3 percent, the potential pay equity compliance problem becomes greater. At this point, unless directed differently, the entire pay that the Building Inspectors receive in 2003 ~vill increase by 3% for 2004. This is consistent with the direction from the City Council last year. Staff is seeking Council direction as to the type of language (if any) it would like added to the pay resolution regarding the situation.