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Committee discusses KSA process for starting pay increases; members urge policy clarity
Summary
Committee members debated whether knowledge-skills-abilities (KSA) hiring adjustments should proceed administratively when positions and funds are budgeted, or require fuller council review; members suggested the issue be treated as a policy decision and brought to full council.
At the committee's end-of-meeting discussion April 24, members returned to a pending issue about the county's KSA (knowledge, skills and abilities) practice for setting starting pay above the minimum of a graded range.
Council members said the current local practice allowed HR staff and a council-office reviewer to approve KSA-based starting-pay adjustments for some vacancies without full council action; some…
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