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JFAC accepts corrected CEC recommendation letter; clarifies employee compensation language
Summary
Legislative Services staff presented revisions to a committee recommendation letter correcting language about a flat hourly salary increase and a separate market-based increase for IT and engineering staff; the committee accepted the technical corrections by unanimous consent.
The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee accepted, by unanimous consent, technical corrections to a CEC recommendation letter during its Jan. 13 meeting.
Frances Lippett, budget and policy analyst with the Legislative Services Office, told the committee staff found language in the draft recommendation that did not match the committee—s action from the prior week. "The first change here is that the committee's recommendation was to fund a salary increase for state employees of a dollar 55 per hour per FTP. So originally there was also flexibility language there. The motion in committee that passed did not include that flexibility language, so that's 1 correction," Lippett said.
Lippett added the second correction clarifies that a committee action to recommend a 4.5% market-based increase for IT and engineering employees is in addition to the $1.55-per-hour increase. "The action that the committee took to recommend a 4 and a half percent market based increase for IT and engineering employees is in addition to that dollar 55 per hour per FTP," she said.
Committee chair accepted a motion to adopt the corrected letter by unanimous consent. No roll-call vote was taken.
Why it matters: the corrected language alters how the committee's pay recommendations should be interpreted and ensures the committee—s intent is recorded accurately for subsequent appropriation work.
Representative Petzke asked whether the IT and engineering market increase applies to all agencies. Lippett responded that the committee motion applied to employees in the IT and engineering salary schedule and may not include nonclassified IT and engineering employees who work for constitutional officers, noting that the subcommittee (JFIFI) may want to consider whether to limit or expand that scope.
