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Council reviews FY26 compensation, benefit and staffing proposals; committee recommends step-plan reductions
Summary
City staff presented a FY26 personnel proposal that would keep FTEs flat at 349.22, reduce pay-step range to 10 steps, apply a 1.75% market adjustment plus 2% merit increases and use targeted measures to retain and recruit public-safety staff.
City staff and the council's personnel committee presented the administration's FY26 compensation, benefits and staffing proposal during the July 15 work session, outlining step-plan changes, market adjustments and recruitment incentives intended to retain employees without increasing full-time equivalent positions.
The personnel committee reported a proposal that keeps the city's Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) count at 349.22 for FY26 while reducing the number of pay steps in the city's step plan. Staff said the goal, begun in FY24, is a gradual reduction of steps from 14 toward a nine-step structure; the FY26 recommendation would remove two more steps and put the plan at 10 steps overall while adjusting the step plan…
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