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Council asks staff to analyze pay grades, health benefits and one-time ARPA options for employees and first responders
Summary
Charlotte City Council asked staff for analyses on pay grades, paid parental leave scope, first-responder out-of-pocket health costs, and the fiscal impact of raising minimum hourly pay as part of its budget-adjustment review.
Charlotte City Council asked staff to return with a set of cost analyses tied to employee compensation and benefits, and whether unallocated one-time ARPA revenue replacement could be used to address near-term gaps.
Councilmember LaWanna Mayfield told the council she had proposed, as part of her adjustments, that some of the $5.3 million in ARPA revenue replacement be set aside to address staff needs. "If we're gonna spend any other 5.3, we learned last Monday that we have city staff that have had to utilize services and the amazing work that the HR department is doing under Sheila's leadership. I would say we put a million, a million 5 over a 3 year period there to help with that," Mayfield said.
Multiple council members requested specific analyses…
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