Personnel committee approves job‑description updates and asks council to raise pay for three department heads

The Franklin City Personnel Committee voted on several personnel actions and continued a months‑long discussion about the city—s classification and compensation plan at a meeting that included department staff presentations and public comment.

The committee elected Youssef as vice chair, approved revised job descriptions in the Health Department, and voted to request that the Common Council move three department heads to the 40th percentile of comparable pay as a first-phase increase.

The pay recommendation grew out of an extended review of the city—s class-and-comp study. Committee members reviewed a history of the city—s classification and compensation work and compared current pay to 14 communities used in prior studies. The committee heard that the city—s existing plan, adopted after a GovHR study, had set an implementation target at the 65th percentile but was later lowered to the 65th (recorded as 65) and that structural limits in the plan prevent many employees from reaching the top of their range quickly. Committee members said that has hampered recruitment and retention.

Dana, the city—s Director of…