HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes 1984-06-19Mayor Mark N. Addiego
Vice Mayor Richard A. Haffey
Counci 1:
Emanuele N. Damonte
Gus Nicolopulos
Roberta Cerri Teglia
A G E N D A
ADJOURNED REGULAR MEETING
CALL TO ORDER: ICassette No. 1)
ROLL CALL:
AGENDA REVIEW
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMUNITY FORUM
CLOSED SESSION
Closed Session for the purpose of
the discussion of personnel matters,
labor relations and litigation.
RECALL TO ORDER:
2. Discussion of Performance Pay Plan
Evaluation.
MINUTES
City Council
City Council Conference Room
June 19, 1984
149
ACTION TAKEN
ADJOURNED REGULAR MEETING
5:07 p.m. Mayor Addiego presiding.
Council present:
Council absent:
Nicolopulos, Teglia,
Haffey, Damonte and
Addiego.
None.
AGENDA REVIEW
City Manager Birkelo stated that he had
nothing to add to the agenda.
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
No one chose to speak.
COMMUNITY FORUM
No one chose to speak.
Council adjourned to a Closed Session to
discuss the items listed at 5:09 p.m.
Mayor Addiego recalled the meeting to
order at 5:24 p.m., all Council present,
no action taken.
Mr. Sipel stated that he needed a sign
off from Council on the Statement of City
Council Philosophy and Intent, in that he
had not received in the mail individual
input from the Council.
Councilwoman Teglia stated that she had
crossed out "internal relationships" but
it still appeared on the Policy
Statement. She stated that it was
annually based on the market survey data,
internal relationships and City financial
conditions. She expressed concern that
one year the request for additional money
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AGENDA
ACTION TAKEN
150
2. Discussion of Performance Pay Plan
Evaluation - Continued.
Vice Mayor Haffey left the podium.
would be based on internal differences
and percentages and next time because
they are out of whack with the market
place it would be based on that - and the
City gets whipped either way.
Mr. Si pel stated that the internal rela-
tionships which were included in the
document were because some positions could
not be surveyed on the outside and must
be related to existing positions.
Mayor Addiego stated that if there wasn't
data from the market place then the posi-
tion must be considered and a salary
established.
Vice Mayor Haffey stated that Council
could talk about internal relationships
for specific positions but overall look
at the market place when necessary.
Mayor Addiego said that a policy could be
stated that the City was going to be fair
and base salaries on the market situation
unless there were financial concerns.
Vice Mayor Haffey left the meeting at
5:30 p.m.
Mr. Sipel spoke of internal job equity
and gave a specific example: that in the
market place the Police Chief is paid 10%
more than the Fire Chief.
Councilwoman Teglia stated that that sta-
tement was not true in this City. She
felt that the Police Chief should be
looking at Police Chiefs in other cities
to determine if his salary was compatible.
Discussion followed on salary differen-
tial between the chief and the captains
in the Police Department; how some people
are more important to the manager
than others; whether the City Attorney
was more important than the Fire or
Police Chief; encouraging people to per-
form to the maximum within their pro-
fession; in the event of financial
adversity, as with Proposition 13, the
emergency personnel would be the last to
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AGENDA ACTION TAKEN i5i
2. Discussion of Performance Pay Plan
Evaluation - Continued.
be touched; in establishing salary guide-
lines for Unit 1 the Police Chief would
always make 15% more than a captain -
then slide that scale from 15 - 25%; that
the City had kept its management people
at the market place's minimum pay and
then has had problems when someone left
the City to find a good professional per-
son who would work for the City at that
salary; establish what it would cost in
the market place for a professional and
put that price on the position; that the
Council demanded and expected a lot from
its management people and if they did not
function get rid of them; etc.
Mr. Si pel stated that if the City went
out and surveyed women dominated depart-
ments it would find that the market was
depressed in terms of what the City
wanted to pay them so the City could use
the internal equity argument. He con-
tinued, that the job is more important to
the City than what is reflected in the
market place. He stated that the market
place would drive the pay for Police Chief,
City Engineer and Community Development
positions.
Discussion followed: that the Fire
Department was an insurance policy and
the City paid a premium until a fire
occurred and that if the paramedics were
not there the police would fill the gap;
breaking the paramedics out as a special
division; the Council being involved in
management appraisals twice a year as
opposed to once a year; implementing a
process for Council to voice dissatisfac-
tion with department heads so the wrong
doing is immediately noted and have steps
taken to rectify the situation or put the
person on notice; taking notice of sloppy
reports given to the Council; poor vocal
presentations to the Council to be eva-
luated in the appraisal system; that the
Manager was a clearing house for infor-
mation and the catalyst for taking some
kind of action with concurrence of the
majority of Council; Mr. Sipel's
suggestion that quarterly the Council
meet in Closed Session with department
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AGENDA
ACTION TAKEN
152
2. Discussion of Performance Pay Plan
Evaluation - Continued.
Councilman Damonte left the podium.
heads with whom they have complaints and
monitor whether there are improvements;
that the Council was trying to reward
people when it was justified so the
people would know where they stood; etc.
Discussion followed on establishing a
criteria of performance evaluation;
integrity and loyal ty should be a given;
oral communications; staff reports;
employee contact; problem solving;
leadership; public contact skills; con-
tact with the employees; organizational
skills; problem solving; whether the
individual is giving the Council the type
of information needed at a Council
meeting; etc.
Mr. Sipel stated that there was a deve-
loping consensus to have ten critera for
the performance evaluation and suggested
trying it and if it didn't work change
it.
Councilman Nicolopulos stated that
loyalty and dedication should be in one
category.
Discussion followed: being efficient but
not very effective; that management was
created by managers for the protection
and preservation of the species; minimize
the suspicion of management; that Mr.
Sipel would have a draft of the perfor-
mance evaluation within a week; etc.
Councilman Damonte left the meeting at
7:15 p.m.
Mayor Addiego directed the City Clerk to
add City participation in the School
bungalow to the 6/27/84 Agenda.
Councilwoman Teglia stated that she had
received a call from Dave Murphy and had
related events at the meeting of the
Council/School liaison concerning the
bungalow.
M/S Teglia/Nicolopulos- To adjourn the
meeting to Wednesday, 6/20/84 at 7:00
p.m., at City Hall.
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AGENDA ACTION TAKEN
ADJOURNMENT:
Carried by unanimous voice vote.
Time of adjournment 7:30 p.m.
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED,
~Battay~k
City of South San Francisco
APPROVED:
Mark~.City o~South Addi~g'Osan, Mayor~ Francis~
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