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Council and staff debate staffing levels, pay study and pace of restoring FTEs

3156084 · April 30, 2025
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Summary

Councilors questioned the rationale for returning positions lost during the Great Recession, asked for historical decision records, and discussed a citywide salary study that staff included in the FY26 budget.

Sedona councilors pressed city managers and department heads about staffing growth since the Great Recession, the value of restored positions, and the results of a recent salary study that staff folded into the FY26 budget.

Councilor Brian Fultz and others asked for a clearer accounting of which roughly 50 full-time-equivalent positions eliminated during fiscal 2009–2012 had been restored and what work those positions did. Public-works staff said the biggest…

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