10/28/1985 PERSONNEL BOARD Minutes

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Personnel Board Meeting Minutes of October 28, 1985 Page 7 Anita Tekle replied that the normal means of implementing any reclassification schedule is to put someone at the next highest.'.salaryr:level to what they are currently making. • She said if you always move someone to their current step when they got reclassified, then there would never be potential. Chairman Sullivan asked if they recommendethe same thing in other towns? Anita Tekle replied "yes, as is evidenced by the $10,000 cost versus the $39,000 cost". Deputy Chief Cooper asked Anita to explain how she arrived at his step and grade. Anita explained that his position was .difficult as there were no other Deputy Chiefs in the towns. surveyed. Deputy Chief Cooper said that there is a Deputy Chief in the Town of Barnstable and that the position has been in the Town of Barnstable for almost twenty years. He said that he did not know if she inadvertently left it out or the fact that he makes $7711 .weekly. Anita said that one of the other staff members did the survey and Barnstable supplied them with the information. She said that if that was in error, it would have to be looked at. Anita went on to say that she looked at the differential between Captains and Lieutenants and in most cases it was in the 24% to 30% range between the Chief and the next person. Deputy Police Chief Cooper asked if she looked at the difference between Sergeants and the Executive officer or Captains. Anita replied that his position would not be compar- able to a Sergeants position. Chief Hartin said that one of the things which Deputy Cooper is getting at which effects both of them is that if you take a Lieutenant in the Fire Dept. and a Sergeant in the Police Dept. and consider.-:i the fringe benefits and average amount of overtime, a top-step • lieutenant makes $34,000 a year -- $4,000 than he does. He said it is another 'internal equity issue which he does not think was addressed in that she did not look at the labor positions but at the management positions. Deputy Chief Cooper said he thought it very important that the percentage differences be looked at between Sergeants and the Deputy Chief's position and what the percentage is between the Captains in Falmouth and the Sergeants. Anita Tekle said that after deter- mining the difference in percentage on his position, internal equity weighed heavily in her analysis. She said that she used the rating manual in terms of rating different levels of education, experience, supervisoryresponsibilityplus a number of factors. She said that the total points between what the planner indicated and his were comparable enough to consider those positions comparable. Many towns who do have both positions, the Deputy and a Planner, are at`,the same grade. Deputy Chief Cooper said that the Town Planner should be compared with planners in other communities and the same thing with the Deputy Police Chief. He said. that he thinks making comparisons with other positions internally is totally unfair and not justified. He said that they have to look at what people in his department receive who are under contract -- sergeants and patrolmen, what the Police Chief gets and in other towns look at what the executive officers get. He said that in other towns they will find that they don't set policy or have the right to suspend as he does and, therefore, are not execu- tive officers. He said that the there- is 'no-Lcomparison with the Captains in Falmouth in the :type bf!responsibility which he has. He said that the two Captains in Falmouth get paid overtime if they work over. • Mike Smith making reference to the methodology used said that any consulting firm would use similar methodology in the dealing with comparables. Deputy Chief Cooper said that he understood that it was not an exact science but that there were a lot of factors which were left out in regard to his position and a few of the other positions in town. He said that he thinks it is unfair to say that there are certain jobs which should be compared to each other and not take into consideration that they should be compared with similar jobs in other communities in the same profession.