Title:
Title
Update to Various Personnel Documents and the City of Sacramento Salary Schedules
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FileID
File ID: 2019-00664
Location
Location: Citywide
Recommendation:
Recommendation
Adopt a Resolution: 1) amending the Personnel Resolution Covering Unrepresented Officers and Employees; 2) amending the Employer-Employee Relations Policy (EERP); 3) amending the City of Sacramento salary schedule; 4) authorizing the City Manager to make minor changes and adjustments to exhibits in order to correct omissions and errors; and 5) transferring $58,000 from the General Fund Administrative Contingency to the Office of the Mayor and City Council for approved salary changes.
Contact: Shelley Banks-Robinson, Director, (916) 808-5541, Human Resources
Body
Presenter: None
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Personnel Resolution Covering Unrepresented Officers (Redline)
3-EERP (Redline)
4-Salary Schedule (Redline)
5-Resolution
6-Exhibit A - 2019 Personnel Resolution Covering Unrepresented Officers
7-Exhibit B - 2019 EERP
8-Exhibit C - Salary Schedule
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: On July 31, 2018, the Council voted to place Measure K (Sacramento City Charter Amendment and City Code Repeal Regarding the City Auditor) on the ballot, which was passed on November 6, 2018. Measure K amended the Sacramento City Charter to add the City Auditor as a Charter Officer; combined the duties of the City Auditor and the Independent Budget Analyst; and repealed the city code chapter related to the Independent Budget Analyst. The city auditor position becomes a charter officer effective July 1, 2019.
With the change of the Auditor’s Office to a Charter Office, the Personnel Resolution Covering Unrepresented Officers (Unrep Reso) must be modified to reflect the Auditor’s appropriate level of benefits (Attachment 2). The Employer-Employee Relations Policy (EERP, Attachment 3) must also be modified to move all positions reporting to the City Auditor, with the exception of Assistant City Auditor, from Unrepresented Unit 21 to Represented Unit 01. The Assistant City Auditor will be moved from Unrepresented Unit 21 to Unrepresented Unit 20 until a meeting can be scheduled with SCXEA to determine the representation status of the Assistant City Auditor. Consistent with Measure K, the Independent Budget Analyst position is being deleted from the EERP and the salary schedules. The positions reporting to the City Auditor, with the exception of Assistant City Auditor, will be represented by the Sacramento City Exempt Employees Association (SCXEA).
The Unrep Reso and EERP contain other minor clean-up items, including the addition of a new classification, City Housing Manager, in Represented Unit 01, and the deletion of the Support Services Manager (Human Resources) in Unrepresented Unit 20.
The salary schedule has been updated to reflect the changes detailed below and a redline of the changes is included in Attachment 4:
• To establish a salary for the newly created City Housing Manager.
• To publish the revised salaries of the Mayor and Councilmembers approved on February 13, 2019, and April 3, 2019, by the Compensation Commission.
• To revise each Staff Aide title salary to appropriately reflect the minimum and maximum salary for each unit.
• To revise the salaries of the Lifeguard, Senior Lifeguard, Assistant Pool Manager, and Pool Manager based on salary surveys and the need to recruit and retain qualified staff to run and maintain the City’s 17 pools.
The California Code of Regulations requires that the City Council adopt the City’s salary schedules at a public meeting (2 CCR § 570.5). This obligation arises whenever salary ranges are changed, to ensure that salary rates are transparent and publicly available. These publicly adopted rates are used by California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) to determine the appropriate compensation earnable for each City employee when calculating their pension benefit. The updated salary schedule is included as Exhibit C.
Policy Considerations: This report and the proposals contained herein will align the unrepresented resolution benefits with other represented groups’ benefits. The approval of this action by the City Council is consistent with the City’s legal obligation under the CalPERS law.
Economic Impacts: None
Environmental Considerations:
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA): Appointment of a City Auditor and revision of the referenced documents are considered administrative activity by a governmental agency and do not constitute a “project” pursuant to Section 15378(b)(2) of the CEQA Guidelines and therefore is exempt from CEQA review.
Sustainability: There are no sustainability considerations associated with this report.
Commission/Committee Action: None
Rationale for Recommendation: Consistent with Measure K, this report contains the proposed revisions to the Unrep Reso, the EERP, and the salary schedule. Approval of these actions will establish compliance with the California Code of Regulations §570.5.
Financial Considerations: The City Auditor position is an existing budgeted full-time equivalent position and funding is available in the current budget. The fiscal impact to the General Fund for the modifications to the salary schedules for the Mayor, Councilmember, Lifeguard, Senior Lifeguard, Assistant Pool Manager and Pool Manager titles is approximately $440,000 for FY2019/20 ($95,000 prorated for FY2018/19).
The FY2018/19 budgets for Mayor/Council will be amended by $58,000 with a transfer from the General Fund Administrative Contingency. The Youth, Parks and Community Enrichment (YPCE) Department has identified sufficient labor savings to absorb the $37,000 in FY2018/19 for the lifeguard series salary changes. The FY2019/20 Proposed Budget includes the adjustment for the Mayor/Council budgets ($215,000), however, due to timing the YPCE department budget for FY2019/20 ($225,000) was not increased. This adjustment will be included in the YPCE department budget report scheduled for May 21, 2019.
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