By Kellen Olshefski
Correspondent
At its meeting Monday, the City of Elkhorn Common Council voted unanimously in favor of several adjustments to the City’s wage and salary plan.
According to a memo from City Administrator Sam Tapson, as part of the administrative transition plan and the resulting reassignment of duties and responsibilities, there was a need to revise and reevaluate the description for affected positions, also leading to a need to change pay grades.
Tapson said that while the majority of pay grades were approved by the Council in May, two positions were evaluated and a needed increase in those pay grades have since come to light.
Additionally, Tapson’s memo notes that a similar process was recently undertaken at the library, and needed pay grade changes were already approved by the Library Board and included in Monday’s resolution for approval by the Council.
On Monday, Tapson said there were a couple of additions that needed to be made in addition to what was included in the updated wage and salary plan, notably that of the inclusion of the Recreation Coordinator. He also noted that there was an error regarding the wage scales for tech services and the circulation supervisor at the library and that the pay grades need to be adjusted in the plan.
Tapson asked that the Council approve the updated wage and salary plan, including the two changes noted above.
The Council voted unanimously in favor of approving the wage and salary plan with the amendments suggested by Tapson.
In other business
In other business, Tapson said that City staff were finishing reviewing proposals from firms for the City’s infiltration and inflow study and project.
The four companies to submit proposals include Robinson Engineering, Applied Technologies, R.A. Smith and Clark Dietz, Inc.
It is expected that staff will have scored each of the four proposals based on a matrix soon, and that information will be available to the Council for review and to make a decision.
Tapson said that while his review doesn’t provide a clear-cut choice between the firms, it’s not something that’s necessarily to be expected either, as all of the firms have extensive experience in this area and experienced personnel.
Tapson said the idea would be for the Council to hold interviews sometime in the near future to help decide on a particular firm. While a specific date and time hasn’t been determined yet for these interviews, several members of the Council along with the Mayor hope to hold interviews before August, likely the week of July 29.
