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Tahoe City PUD proposes three new full‑time positions and 2.36% COLA in draft 2025 budget
Summary
District staff presented a draft 2025 operating and capital budget that includes a 2.36% cost‑of‑living adjustment, benefit increases, and three new full‑time positions (an HR conversion, an additional utilities worker and an accounting position). The board will decide on hiring direction at the November budget workshop.
District staff presented the draft 2025 operating and capital budgets and asked the board for feedback ahead of a November workshop and final November 15 adoption.
Andrew Sherritt, county manager for the district, said personnel assumptions in the draft include “a cost of living adjustment increase of 2.36%.” He said the draft budgets also build in estimated merit increases, pension and health costs, and overlap costs tied to an anticipated CFO retirement. The personnel proposal includes converting a part‑time human resources administrative assistant to full time, adding one full‑time employee in utilities to support the treatment plant coming online, and adding one full‑time accounting position to support increased regulatory workload. Staff said the engineering manager position will be moved from 0.85 FTE to 1.0 FTE.
Finance slides shown to the board highlighted an overall personnel cost increase of just over 7% from 2024 to 2025, with a roughly 4% recurring budget‑to‑budget change after one‑time overlaps are removed. Staff said health, dental and vision benefits are a major driver of the increase — benefits were shown up about 19.7% overall, with 10.81% of that attributed to premium increases. The board discussed timing for hiring and staff suggested that, if approved, some hires would likely occur after the summer season to align with recruitment and seasonal staffing cycles.
Why it matters: staffing decisions and benefit assumptions are the largest drivers of the operating budget. Board members pressed staff for clarity about timing, the extent of overlap costs and whether the proposed positions should be authorized at the November budget workshop. Staff asked the board to provide direction on the three proposed positions at that workshop so the team can finalize budgets for the Nov. 15 meeting.
