City Commission to consider staff position reallocations, pay-grade update for chief of staff on Aug. 9 consent agenda

Jose Luis Rodriguez, a representative of the Human Resources Department, briefed the City Commission on proposed reclassifications that would change job titles and pay grades across several departments and will be placed on the consent agenda for the commission’s Aug. 9 meeting.

Rodriguez said the proposals “are just changes in job titles or changes in the pay grades associated to the job titles. They are not additions of positions to the city's FTE council.” He summarized reallocations in Public Works, Finance, Information Technology, Human Resources, Housing and Community Development, and Police, and recommended a pay-grade change for the city’s chief of staff post.

The package matters because it alters internal career progression, supervisory responsibilities and one salary grade where duties were combined. Rodriguez told the commission the chief of staff post and the economic development manager duties were merged in fiscal year 2021 and that the pay grade for the combined duties was not updated then. The Human Resources presentation proposes raising the chief of staff pay grade from grade 64 to grade 73 to reflect that combined role.

The most consequential item…