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City Council and Mayor
Monday, July 23, 2012 at 5:15 p.m.
Council Chambers
161 North Section Street
Work Session
• Final Compensation Study Report
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Th e C it y Council m et in a Wo rk Sess ion at 4 :56 p.m .,
Fairh op e M uni cipal Complex Co uncil Ch am ber,
16 1 No rt h Secti on Street , Fairhop e , A lab am a 36532, o n
Mo nd ay , 23 Jul y 2012.
Prese nt were Co unc il Pres id ent L onnie L. Mi x on , C ounc ilmembers: D e bbie
W. Q uinn , D ani el Stankoski, M ich ae l A. Fo rd , and Ri ck Kingr ea , and C ity C lerk Li sa
A. Hanks . Mayor Timo th y M. K ant and Ci ty A ttorney M arion E. Wynne we re
a bse nt.
Co un cil President M ixo n ca ll ed th e meeting t o ord er at 4 :56 p .m.
City C lerk Lisa Hanks introdu ced th e present ati on fr om th e C ity's P ro j ec t
Team on the Comp ensatio n and Jo b Cl assification Stud y fo r the C ity of Fairh op e .
T he int ro du cti on brie fly we nt over th e p roce ss of ge ttin g th e n ee d ed inform ati on t o
Eve r gree n Soluti ons, LLC w hi ch includ ed setting up emplo yee ori ent atio n a nd foc u s
gro up sess ion s; and a ll owin g e mplo yee access to Jo b Assessm ent T oo ls ("JATs").
Team m emb er s Lorenzo Howard a nd Di ane Tho m as bri efl y describ ed th e process of
re fin in g j o b cl assificat io n s, wo rkin g w ith man age rs , and expl a in ed th e nee d fo r
co m pe n satio n gui de l ines and a per fo rm an ce based evalu ati on sys t em .
Dr. T ho mas ex pl ained the three fac tors u sed fo r th e di ffe re nt g rad es: JAT scores ,
mark et wage data, and de p artm e nt hea d s were aske d ab out ranking and p os iti on s.
The sp ec ific j ob titl es we nt fro m 193 down to 149. Th e Publi c Works D ep artment
was th e exampl e u sed to sh ow the refinin g of j o b cl ass ifi cation s . She q uoted one
se nt en ce fro m p age 3-2 fro m Everg ree n 's report: "an or ga ni ze d p ay stru cture is u se ful
becau se it gives employees so m ethin g t o work toward s and a lso h e lps clear co nfu sion
abo ut fut ure sa lary increases or equit y amon g d iffe rent p ay grades."
M r. Howard descri bed the pro p osed p ay pl an more in-d epth . H e bri efl y went ove r the
su mmary of employee out reac h , assess m en t of c urr ent conditi on , marke t sur vey
res ul ts, and a so lu t ion . He we nt over th e s ummar y of res ult s fo un d and m entioned
key iss ues in compen sation . M r. H oward explained how thi s needed t o be
impl em ent ed and communi cated b y th e Cit y of Fairh op e and it s manager s and
superv iso r s .
Work Sess ion
Monday , 23 July 2012
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Th e re be in g no f urth er bu sin ess to come before th e City Council , the m ee tin g
was du ly adjo urn ed at 5:53 p.m.
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