North Miami adopts revised classification and pay plan; public raises discrepancy questions

The City Council adopted a revised classification and pay plan for classified and unclassified employees for fiscal year 2025–26 by a 5-0 vote after a short public hearing.

Interim Personnel Director Angela Reyes presented the pay plan, which staff said lists position titles and salary ranges (minimum and maximum) and reflects department reorganizations and corrected job titles. The plan supports the budget council recently approved; staff emphasized that the pay plan establishes salary ranges rather than a line‑by‑line budget appropriation.

At the public hearing, a resident who identified her address as 540 Northwest 120 Seventh Street said she had reviewed the plan and calculated that eliminated positions totaled roughly $943,000 while added positions and adjustments totaled about $2.8 million. She asked why there was such a discrepancy and why the city needed so much additional money. City staff responded that the pay plan shows ranges and positions, not exact salary expenditures; whether positions are funded depends on the budget adopted previously and on vacancies. “At that point, there’s no reduction in monies or increase in monies other than what has been published in the budget,” staff said.

Council members confirmed the pay plan supports the budget already passed and that changes shown in the plan — additions, removals, and corrected titles — reflect position ranges rather than immediate, line‑level dollar changes. The council moved, seconded and approved the item by a 5-0 vote.

Council members requested that staff make the plan reviewable by the public — including clear notation of whether positions are funded in the adopted budget — and to ensure department name corrections and other edits are visible in the packet materials going forward.