Council approves reclassification of city positions and adds assistant city manager role

The Clayton City Council voted unanimously on May 21 to approve a set of personnel reclassifications and to add a new Assistant City Manager/Administrative Services Director position.

Interim City Manager Adam W. Politzer presented the proposal to reclassify the Accounting Technician position to Accountant and to reclassify the City Clerk to City Clerk/Assistant to the City Manager, and to create an Assistant City Manager/Administrative Services Director role. The proposal included amending the City of Clayton salary schedule for the new and reclassified positions; the Council approved the changes and directed staff to return with a resolution that shows salary steps.

During public comment on the item, resident James Sinkay urged the City to offer highly competitive salaries and raised concerns about high turnover; Frank Gavidia spoke in support of the reclassifications and commended interim staff and the finance advisor for their work. Councilmember Wan moved the motion and Councilmember Tillman seconded; the motion passed 5-0. The minutes do not record individual member roll-call votes beyond the overall 5-0 tally, and the salary steps were not included in the packet; staff will return with a resolution that sets the specific salary steps.

The action changes classification and authorizes staff to prepare the formal resolution that will amend the administrative salary schedule; the Council's approval establishes the policy direction to formalize the new job classifications but does not itself publish the new step salaries until the forthcoming resolution is presented to the Council.