The Plymouth City Council discussed the proposed 2018 salary ordinance in a special session Monday night.
The ordinance was presented by Emily Kruyer-Collins who works as Human Relations for the City of Plymouth. It details the salaries requested for department heads and employees as given in a salary survey by employee and supervisor input. Supervisors and managers were then given that information to validate the information.
The city’s consultants, Waggoner, Irwin, Scheele and Associates, responded with job descriptions and an analysis of wages. The fire department and police department employees are above the external mid-point which is a reference point set to be equal, lead or lag the market media or market average pay. Those salaries were already approved in an amended salary ordinance this year. The city attorney, cemetery superintendent, school crossing guards, and a service tech labor part-time water works department employee are also above the external mid-point.
Clerk-Treasurer Jeanine Xaver requested that her staff wages be increased to the external high range for the reasons of work responsibilities, volume of work, work product results, the number of jobs each individual must learn, and the difficulty of work in each of those positions.
Salaries will not be lowered but cannot be higher than what the mayor recommends.
The council called the salary ordinance as read and will discuss it further during their regular council meeting on Monday, Aug. 28 at 6:30 p.m. in the council chambers at the Plymouth City Building.
