City staff to finish salary study after consultant delay; $15,000 payment remains unpaid
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A staff member said the contracted consultant has not delivered updated data for a multi-phase salary study; she proposed completing the remaining clerical and job‑classification work in‑house and noted the contract is expired and a $15,000 payment has not been made.
Christian Jones told the council she had expected updated data from the contracted consultant but had not received it and therefore recommended completing the remainder of the salary study in-house. She said draft documents and benchmarking data exist, and that remaining work involves clerical cleanup, aligning job descriptions and confirming numbers.
Jones said the contract has expired and that the city has not made a $15,000 payment to the consultant. She said, "the way I've read it, we're not bound to make the payment unless they deliver a final product," and that the consultant had not started phase two of the engagement, described in the transcript as the organizational audit.
No vote on contracting or payment was recorded in the meeting. Jones said staff will move forward internally and provide a recommendation to the council once the in‑house work is complete.