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File #: DC-4069    Version: 1
Type: Consent Action Status: Passed
File created: 12/9/2024 In control: Board of Commissioners
On agenda: 12/17/2024 Final action: 12/17/2024
Enactment date: 12/17/2024 Resolution #: 24-615
Title: Establishment Of 2025 Elected Officials' And County Manager's Compensation And Commissioner General Expense Allowance
Sponsors: Human Resources
Attachments: 1. Notice of Intent to Decline Salary 2025
DEPARTMENT: Human Resources
FILE TYPE: Consent Action

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Establishment Of 2025 Elected Officials' And County Manager's Compensation And Commissioner General Expense Allowance
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PURPOSE/ACTION REQUESTED
Establish 2025 Elected Officials' and County Manager's compensation and recommendation of Commissioner General Expense Allowance.

SUMMARY
Elected Officials' and County Manager compensation is reviewed annually. Elected Officials' 2025 compensation must be established before year-end due to statutory requirements that do not provide for retroactive compensation, and which specify that compensation must be set annually.

Proposed 2025 Elected Officials' and County Manager Compensation
All proposed salaries for 2025 have been computed based upon the proposed 2025 Unclassified Merit Compensation Policy and Plan (Plan), relevant statutory provisions and other pay increases provided to County staff. The 2025 salaries are initially established based upon the Unclassified Merit Compensation Policy and Plan. The proposed salaries actually payable in 2025 are established taking into account the Plan's policy which limits the salaries of the County Attorney and County Sheriff to the maximum compensation to be paid to the County Manager. The proposed Plan provides for a 0.0 percent to 8.25 percent base adjustment for 2025. For the purposes of elected officials' pay, the annual salary will be issued in equal payments pursuant the number of annual pay dates in a given year commencing on the first Monday of the year through the Sunday proceeding the first Monday of the following year.

Further, by Resolution No. 24-577 (December 3, 2024), the Board has approved a one-time two percent base adjustment for all non-union staff to address the lump sum payments in lieu of base increases provided to staff in 2021 and 2022. The lump sum payments were established due to the economic uncertainty caused by the on-going COVID 19 pandemic. As a result of the lump sum payments, ...

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