HomeMy WebLinkAbout2016-035 - Amend the City's Basic Classification and Compensation PlansRESOLUTION NO. 2016 -035
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SANTA ANA TO AMEND THE CITY'S BASIC
CLASSIFICATION AND COMPENSATION PLANS TO
EFFECT CERTAIN CHANGES.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AS
FOLLOWS:
Section 1: The City Council hereby finds, determines and declares as follows:
A. Section 1004, Article X of the City Charter of the City of Santa Ana
requires the City Manager to prepare, install and maintain a position
classification and pay plan subject to civil service rules and regulations
and the approval of the City Council.
B. On June 16, 2015, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 2015 -026
amending and re- establishing the Basic Classification and Compensation
Plan for all Full -Time and Part -Time Classifications of Officers and
Employees of the City of Santa Ana.
C. On December 15, 2015, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 2015-
069 which amended Resolution No. 2015 -026 as to the City's Executive
Management ( "EM ") Classification to provide a salary increase consistent
with that provided to other City bargaining units.
D. On January 19, 2016, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 2016 -005
which amended Resolution No. 2015 -026 as to the salary rate range for
the EM Classification of Deputy City Manager from EM -41 to EM -44.
E. On March 1, 2016, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 2016 -015
which amended Resolution No. 2015 -026 as to various classifications and
compensation throughout the City based upon the Personnel
Department's mid -year review.
F. The City Council has amended and reestablished the Basic Classification
and Compensation Plans on numerous occasions since adoption.
G. With the adoption of the Annual Budget for Fiscal Year 2016 -2017, the
City Council authorized certain organizational, staffing, and compensation
changes which affect a number of classification titles in the City's Basic
Classification and Compensation Plans.
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H. To encourage unrepresented Executive Management (EM) employees to
participate in the City's 457 deferred compensation plan, the City Manager
proposes changes in the Cash -in -lieu Benefits language to clarify that
unused Cash -in -Lieu Benefits can be transferred to the 457 deferred
compensation plan on a voluntary basis. In addition, it is recommended
that the language be clarified to comply with medical insurance
requirements as set forth in the Affordable Care Act.
I. It is now desired to amend Council Resolution No. 2015 -026, as amended,
in order to effect these changes, as shown below:
Section 2: The Santa Ana City Council amends Resolution No. 2015 -026,
Exhibit "A" Section 4 "Health and Welfare Benefits" subsection D "Cash -in -Lieu of
Benefits" as follows (added language is underlined and language to be deleted is
struck):
A. Executive Management (EM) employees will be eligible to receive cash
(subject to taxation as wages) through the cafeteria plan if they either opt -
out of receiving eRe of the optional benefits n yided through the plan
medical insurance after providing proof of other group medical coverage
under a spouse /domestic partners non -City sponsored plan, or if they
choose optional benefits that do not cost as much as the maximum dollar
amount they received through the plan. Any unused cash -in -lieu benefits
can be transferred to the 457 deferred compensation plan on a voluntary
basis.
Section 3: The Santa Ana City Council amends Resolution No. 2015 -026,
Exhibit "E" as follows:
A. Adding the following full time classification title at the monthly seventeen -
step salary rate range indicated:
17 -Step Salary Rate Range (SRR) Effective 07/01/16
Monthly Salary
Classification Title SSR Minimum - Maximum
* ** Assistant Clerk of the Council (MM)* MM -18 $7903 - $11729
*Includes 2.5% Salary Increase effective 7/1/16.
Section 4: The Santa Ana City Council amends Resolution No. 2015 -026,
Exhibit "F" as follows:
A. Adding the following full time classification titles at the monthly seven -step
salary rate range indicated:
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7 -Step Salary Rate Rance (SRR) Effective 07/01/16
Classification Title
Monthly Salary
SSR
Minimum - Maximum
Asset Management
665
$5356 - $7176
Analyst"
DNA Coordinator"
595
$3803 - $5101
Zoo Operations Coordinator"
619
$4278 - $5734
"Includes 2.5% Salary Increase effective 7/1/16. Does not include the 0.25%
RHS Plan Base Premium.
Section 5: The Santa Ana City Council amends Resolution No. 2015 -026,
Exhibit "D" as follows:
A. Adjusting the salary for the following full time classification title at
the month seven -step salary rate range indicated:
Classification Title 5 -Step Salary Rate Range (SRR) Effective 07/01/16
FROM TO
SSR Min -Max SSR Min -Max
Police Photo /Video 631 $4533 - $5515 646 $4882 - $5934
Specialist*
'Includes 2.5% Salary Increase effective 7/1/16
Section 6. That except as amended by this Resolution, all other provisions of
Resolution No. 2015 -026, as amended, shall remain in full force and effect.
Section 7. This Resolution is operative from and after July 1, 2016.
ADOPTED this 7 1 day of June 2016.
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Sonia R. Carvalho
City Attorney
By: 41."""
"
Laura A. Rossini
Senior Assistant City Attorney
AYES: Councilmembers: Amezcua, Benavides Pulido, Reyna, Sarmiento,
* ** Tinaiero (6)
NOES: Councilmembers: None (0)
ABSTAIN: Councilmembers: None (0)
NOT PRESENT: Councilmembers: Martinez (1)
CERTIFICATE OF ATTESTATION AND ORIGINALITY
I, MARIA D. HUIZAR, Clerk of the Council, do hereby attest to and certify the attached
Resolution No. 2016 -035 to be the original Resolution adopted by the City Council of the
City of Santa Ana on June 7, 2016.
Date:
* ** Councilmember Tinajero,
the Council position as
on resolution.
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Clerk of the Councild
City of Santa Ana
dissented on addition of Assistant Clerk of
noted in Amended Motion No. 3 and reflected