City Council approves Public Works staffing restructure, immediate 5% pay change for assistant role

The City Council on Aug. 26 approved a Public Works staffing proposal that splits two existing operations supervisor positions into an operations manager and an operations supervisor and includes targeted wage-bracket adjustments intended to ease hiring and reduce wage compression. Council members voted to approve the portion of the staffing proposal that included a 5% immediate pay increase for the assistant public works position and bracket adjustments for the new operations manager and supervisor.

City staff presented the plan as a response to a pending retirement and difficulty filling a technically demanding supervisor vacancy. The administration said reclassifying and redistributing technical responsibilities — creating an operations manager with broader technical oversight and a separate operations supervisor aligned to day-to-day supervisory duties — would make it more feasible to recruit…