City Council Minutes 2017 03 14 SP

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City Council Meeting Minutes March 14, 2017 Page 5 of 8 Mayor Pro Tem Lipton asked what the compression issues might be. Director Hix stated that if some employees' salaries are raised, other staff positions may feel they too should be making more or getting a raise. Director Hix went through each option listed in the Council packet. Councilmember Leh asked to start with Option 6 as that is if we don't make any changes. Option 6: Continue with existing annual salary survey process, Pay Philosophy, and benefit eligibility rules thus making no changes. Based on review of the past 10 years, cost estimates for market increases for 2018 were factored into the budget and were estimated at $133,000 with an additional 4% increase factored in for performance/merit increases for full time employees at an estimated cost of $596,570. A 4% increase was factored in for the part-time/variable hour employees in 2018 as well at an estimated cost of approximately $50,000 for an estimated grand total of $779,570 annually in 2018 and subsequent years. Option 1: Bring all Non-benefittedNariable hours employees (less than 30 hours), excluding seasonal employees and summer interns, up to at least $15.67 per hour. Preliminary cost estimate is an additional $162,613 in wages, and an additional $12,440 for FICA, and an estimated grand total of $175,053 annually in 2018 and subsequent years. Option 2: Bring City of Louisville Full Time Employees and Benefitted Part -Time Employees (30 - 40 hours per week) up at least the $15.67 hourly wage. The cost estimate to increase the five (5) employees to the livable wage of $15.67 per hour is $18,198 in wages, $1,392 in FICA, for an estimated grand total of $19,590 annually in 2018 and subsequent years. She noted this affects the Golf Fund which is an enterprise fund. Option 3: Use Colorado Self -Sufficiency Standard (SSS) as the wage standard for ALL City of Louisville positions in order to maintain wage fairness and avoid wage compression issues. The cost estimate for this option would add an additional $2,485,808 to the regular salaries budget and an additional $726,369 to the part- time/variable (non -benefitted) salanes budget for a total of an additional $3,212,177 in salaries, and additional $245,731 for FICA for an estimated grand total of $3,457,908 annually in 2018 and subsequent years. Option 4: Add City of Boulder and Boulder County (who also recently implemented the SSS wage standard) to our labor market cities as part of the annual salary survey and salary projections. The cost estimate for this option is as follows: • An additional $313,914 for FT employees • An additional $23,594 for PTNariable hour employees • An additional $12,789 for Seasonal employees