2017-01-27-minutes-county-mgmt-team

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2017-01-27 MINUTES 1 COMMISSIONERS' MINUTES KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON COMMISSIONER’S AUDITORIUM SPECIAL MEETING FRIDAY 1:00 P.M. JANUARY 27, 2017 Board members present: Chairman Paul Jewell; Vice-Chairman Laura Osiadacz and Commissioner Obie O’Brien. Others: Julie Kjorsvik, Clerk of the Board; Dan Carlson, CDS Director; Kathy Jurgens, Finance Systems Manager; Lucas Huck, Engineer; Pat Gigstead, Chief Probation Officer; Lisa Lawrence, Assistant Solid Waste Director/Interim Event Center Director; Diana MacKenzie, Upper District Court Administrator; Gene Dana, Sheriff; Todd Davis, Noxious Weed Director; Brett Wachsmith, Treasurer; Michael Stafford, Juvenile Court Administrator; Robin Raap, Administrative Assistant; Lisa Young, Human Resource Director; Angela Bugni, Legal Secretary; Tip Hudson, Extension Agent; Greg Zempel, Prosecutor; Jim Goeben, IT Director; Jerry Pettit, Auditor; Val Barschaw, Clerk; Robin Read, Public Health Administrator; Paul Sander, Deputy Prosecutor; and Marsha Weyand, Assessor. SPECIAL MEETING MANAGEMENT TEAM COMMISSIONERS At 1:00 p.m. Chairman Jewell opened a Special Meeting with members of the Management Team. Lisa Young, Human Resource Director provided copies of a Wage Survey Report and specific wage information to each department. Chairman Jewell announced the Board had made a decision to implement a wage survey for all non-union employees. He said the salaries would be retroactive to January 1, 2017 but would not appear on the employee’s paycheck until end of February. Although the list is somewhat “semi-official” at this time, he did not believe there would be many changes, if at all to the finalized document. There were special cases for employees who were recently hired at a higher rate and they would not be included however they would be entitled to a 3% increase for this year. The 3% increase would also include those employees whose wage scale did not move. He recapped the process that was gone through and the significant amount of work that went into research and analyzing data. Chairman Jewell said discussions will begin shortly for Union employees on a market based wage survey and they would also be going through the same process. It’s the Boards plan to go through that process quickly, noting there would be some exceptions such as Line Deputies, Public Works Road Union, etc.