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Committee corrects CEC recommendation letter; accepts change to pay increase language
Summary
Legislative Services staff asked JFAC to accept corrections to the Committee on Employee Compensation (CEC) recommendation letter clarifying a $1.55-per-hour pay increase and a separate 4.5% market-based increase for IT and engineering staff; the committee approved the corrected letter by unanimous consent.
Frances Lippitt, a budget and policy analyst with the Legislative Services Office, asked the Joint Finance and Appropriation Committee on Monday to accept technical corrections to the Committee on Employee Compensation recommendation letter.
Lippitt told the committee the committee’s prior motion had specified a salary increase of $1.55 per hour per full-time position but had not included the flexibility language that initially appeared in the draft letter. The requested correction removes that flexibility language to match the committee’s recorded motion.
Lippitt also clarified the committee’s action on information‑technology staff: the committee had voted to recommend a 4.5% market-based increase for employees on the IT and engineering salary schedule, and that increase is intended to be in addition to the $1.55-per-hour figure.
Representative Petzke asked whether the IT and engineering increase applied across agencies or only to classified employees; Lippitt replied the motion applied to employees in the IT and engineering salary schedule and that non‑classified staff for certain constitutional officers might not be included unless the committee decided otherwise.
Chair Harmon requested unanimous consent to accept the corrected letter; no objection was recorded and Harmon said, "it is so ordered."
Why this matters: the CEC letter communicates JFAC’s compensation recommendations to the Appropriation process and to agencies building their payroll budgets. The corrections make the committee’s action and the published guidance consistent.
Committee action: the corrected CEC recommendation letter was accepted by unanimous consent; no recorded roll-call vote followed.
What was left unspecified on the record: the transcript does not contain a roll-call tally of committee members for this unanimous-consent action or any staff memorandum detailing the budgetary cost of applying the separate 4.5% market increase statewide.
Follow-up: LSO and committee staff will reflect the corrected language in the CEC letter and the program maintenance materials used later in the week.
