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Cathedral City Council adopts updated salary schedule to enable staff reclassifications
Summary
The City Council approved a resolution adding job classifications to the citywide salary schedule, enabling three incumbent reclassifications and adding a part‑time limited‑term office assistant without increasing the city’s allocated FTEs for fiscal year 2026–27.
The Cathedral City City Council voted unanimously March 25 to adopt an updated citywide salary schedule that adds several job classifications and enables reclassification of incumbent employees.
City Manager Andy Firestein told the council the change implements provisions of the city’s memorandum of understanding with AFSCME and allows the reclassification of three existing employees — to code compliance specialist, director of communications and engagement, and senior enterprise systems analyst — and adds a part‑time limited‑term office assistant. He emphasized the action does not change the city’s allocated positions in the adopted budget (230 positions in the current year and 231 in fiscal year 2026–27) and contains no budget amendment to add FTEs.
Council members asked for clarity about how reclassifications interact with the salary schedule and the budget’s allocated position table. Firestein explained that the salary schedule lists job classifications and corresponding salary ranges while the budget’s allocated positions control headcount; adding a classification is required to complete reclassification but does not automatically create a new funded FTE.
Council Member Christina Gordon said she supported the reclassifications but urged more transparency in the future, asking that council receive advance notice or discussion of personnel reclassifications rather than seeing them on the salary schedule for the first time at the meeting. Mayor Pro Tem Ernesto Gutierrez moved approval; Council Member Lamb seconded. There was no public comment. The motion carried on a unanimous vote.
The update will enable staff to complete three reclassifications and to contract for a temporary part‑time office assistant as described in the staff report; any future changes to allocated positions or budgetary increases would require separate council action.
The council’s action was recorded as a resolution adopting the updated citywide salary schedule and implementing the AFSCME MOU provisions. The council did not alter the budget’s allocated position total at this time.
