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Ii <br /> <br />THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 2000 <br /> <br /> recent survey showed that most jurisdictions in the Commonwealth were providing average pay <br /> <br /> increases of about 3% in the coming year, and that management was recommending a 2.4% range <br /> adjustment in the current pay plan and a 2.4% salary increase. Vice-Mayor Teague stated his opinion <br /> that a minimum increase needed to be provided to all employees, including those who were at or <br /> above mid-point in their ranges. Council Member Dallas stated that the primary concern should not <br /> be where people were relative to mid-point, but instead whether or not they were getting an equitable <br /> percentage increase in pay, further stating that pay improvements should be easy to understand. Mrs. <br /> Read stated that this comment was a good lead into discussion of the new employee manual. Mayor <br /> Crabtree then asked if schoolteachers would get a 2.4% pay increase under the proposed <br /> compensation package, and was told that they would. Mr. Bartlett stated that the School <br /> administration would have a $1.2 million fund balance at the end of the next fiscal year, so they <br /> should be able to fund their share of the compensation improvements for their classified employees. <br /> He stated that the cost from the City' s General Fund to support the compensation improvements for <br /> the City employees was estimated at $321,000.00. Mayor Crabtree stated that Council would have a <br /> better sense of what they would be able to approve in the way of compensation improvements for <br /> City employees following their discussion of needed work at the City landfill on June 15, 2000. Mrs. <br /> Read then noted that Council had before them, for their information, the recently revised and updated <br /> Employee Manual for City Employees, and that, following feedback from employees, the manual <br /> would be distributed on or after July 1, 2000. Mr. Reynolds stated that the new manual would take <br /> effect on July 1; but that staff needed to have an ordinance approved when the budget was adopted so <br /> as to incorporate proposed changes in vacation and sick leave policies. Council Member Roop then <br /> stated his belief that City Council should exercise approval authority over the contents of the City <br /> Personnel Manual. City Manager Reynolds reminded Council that the city Charter vested the City <br /> Manager with sole authority for administration of personnel issues and the Personnel Manual, and <br /> asked them to please consider this fact. He also noted that the manual was revised in order to make it <br /> <br /> <br />