The Maumee City Council Personnel Committee voted to recommend changing the city's pay-document language so the administrator and department directors share a single pay category. Committee members said the mayor requested equalizing the pay range structure for the administrator and directors, with step placement determining individual pay.

Committee members discussed that the city's 2024 "administrator and department directors" document needed revision to remove a separate category that had been applied to the administrator/safety-service director and to make the remaining category apply to the administrator and all current directors. A motion to make that change was seconded and passed on a roll-call vote recorded in committee.

Members also agreed to ask Worksprings, the outside consultant, to review and streamline the administrator job description and to collect comparative job descriptions from neighboring communities to guide revisions. Worksprings representative Janice said the consultant uses a questionnaire and follows up with research to produce a revised description.

Committee members emphasized the need to begin the administrator search and to present the job description and any pay-range changes to the full council for final action. One member said the city has been operating without a permanent administrator since Aug. 16, and that continuing vacancies across multiple departments is slowing operations.

The committee approved a motion to have Worksprings review the administrator job description with input channeled to staff (Gina) for collection and to schedule a Worksprings presentation for the committee or council. The recommendation and proposed pay-document change will be forwarded to the full council for ordinance action to change pay scales before posting the job for recruitment.

Votes and next steps: The committee recorded affirmative roll-call votes for both the pay-document amendment recommendation and the request for Worksprings to review the administrator job description; both items will appear on the next council agenda.