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Tumwater council amends 2025 salary schedule to staff new IT department and support ERP, body-worn cameras
Summary
The Tumwater City Council on Feb. 18 adopted Ordinance O2025-007 to amend the 2025 salary schedule for newly created IT positions, including roles to support the city’s ERP implementation and body-worn camera project. City officials said the change alters titles and salary bands but does not require a budget amendment.
The Tumwater City Council on Feb. 18 adopted Ordinance O2025-007 to amend the city’s 2025 salary schedule to align position titles and salary bands for the newly established Information Technology Department.
Why it matters: The changes are intended to modernize job titles, improve recruitment and place two new positions — one focused on the body-worn camera system and one to support the city’s enterprise-resource-planning (ERP) implementation — within the standalone IT department. City officials said no additional budget appropriation is required for the reclassification.
City Administrator Lisa Parks told the council the IT positions were originally budgeted under the finance department during workforce planning and the budget process; the council formally created a separate IT department by ordinance on Nov. 19, 2024. “This request does not require a budget amendment in terms of the dollar amounts,” Parks said. The ordinance amends the salary schedule — the list of position titles and pay bands the council adopts with the budget — to reflect the department and title changes.
Lance Inman, the city’s newly appointed IT director, described a restructured team that separates first-line customer-service staff from project-focused staff to support continuity, 24/7 coverage and recruitment. He said the department currently has six staff with one recent vacancy and that the two requested new positions are a System Administrator II (to support body-worn cameras) and a Business Applications Analyst II (to support the ERP project). “My hope is that [title changes] will help recruitment a bit if our titles are more consistent with the wider IT industry,” Inman said.
Councilmember Liana Delhoff moved to adopt Ordinance O2025-007 amending the 2025 salary schedule; Councilmember Kelly Vonholtz seconded. The motion carried unanimously on a voice vote.
What the ordinance does: It updates position titles and salary bands for IT roles and moves certain positions into the standalone IT department; it does not change overall budgeted dollar amounts, according to staff.
Next steps: Staff will proceed with recruitment and implementation under the new department structure and the updated salary schedule. The city indicated recruiters and hiring managers will use the revised titles and bands for ongoing hiring for the ERP and body-worn camera projects.
