10-28-13 Common Council Meeting Minutes

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REGULAR MEETING OCTOBERT 28, 2013 Chairperson White: We agree as well. Councilmember’s at this time if you have any questions pertaining to the salary ordinance this is the time that you can address those questions. You will have opportunity after the public hearing to make any comments, general comments that you might on the salary ordinance. At this time you are addressing questions in regards to the information that we have received. Councilmember Dieter: Thank You Chairperson Karen White. Under the Public Works Leadership Team slide Cecil, they all fall under the Director of Public Works and you have five director jobs, what, can you tell me the difference between why they all wouldn’t be the same salary. Mayor Buttigieg: So, the way that the salaries were reached in terms of building this proposal was a mix of really two things. Part of it was internal equity, so that the reason why they stayed within a pretty narrow band. But the other is external competitiveness and we are trying to fit in with the benchmarking State-wide, and I think what we have found was that Water Works and Environmental Services roles are similar in their kind of work, and generally being compensated at a higher level than the other three areas. Councilmember Dieter: Ok, well again that’s what I talked about earlier with the talent manager if we could get some statistical data to build that up. Mayor Buttigieg: If you would consult the spreadsheet that we sent around it did have some of the comparable that we were showing. Councilmember Dieter: I haven’t got that one yet. So the talent manager position that you have, to show some data on that. Mayor Buttigieg: Yes, and I think she helped us get that data. Councilmember Dieter: If you can get it, I haven’t got it, so I don’t know where you put that yet. Mayor Buttigieg: Sure I would be happy to. Councilmember Dieter: I won’t comment now, but the other question has to do with, did you guys also when you were looking at this have a spreadsheet for the non-bargaining, teamsters, Police and Fire in equity of where they rate in the State of Indiana, when you compare these job titles to those jobs. Mayor Buttigieg: Yes, it’s a great point. Because again we want to make sure that when we say it’s important for us to be equitable around the State of Indiana that we apply that widely. So one of the arguments that carries the most weight of this Administration is that if there is any position where were shown to be far out of keeping with other municipalities we believe that most recent negotiations have moved the city in the direction in any case where we are behind of being in more a line with others and will continue as I think you had suggested earlier a good role that the talent manager might be able to play to help us get even more data analyzed in order to make sure that we are in line at every level of the City. Councilmember Dieter: Because if you are going to do that for everybody here, you got to go across. Thank you. Councilmember Gavin Ferlic: No questions, thank you. Councilmember Oliver Davis: Thank you. I want to thank you for looking at the cost of living adjustments which I had asked this afternoon. Also along those lines when you consider comparing us to the City of Indianapolis, and to the City of Ft. Wayne, Ft. Wayne is the whole county of Ft. Wayne, and of course Indianapolis is just big Indy, and so have you given some thought to the fact that when you consider the population size of South Bend, we are at roughly 107, 000 and we only cover parts of St. Joe County where all of Ft. Wayne covers all of Allen County and of course Indianapolis with their Uni-Gov set up there is a different kind of organization when we looking at apples to apples even though we are all City Government 16