CITY OF PACIFICA
COUNCIL AGENDA SUMMARY REPORT
1/8/2024
1 SUBJECT:
Annual Part-Time Salary Schedule Update
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Move to adopt the resolution approving the annual part-time salary schedule update that went into effect January 1, 2024.
STAFF CONTACT:
Yulia Carter, Assistant City Manager
650-738-7440
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Irene Camarena, Human Resources Manager
650-738-7303
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
BACKGROUND/DISCUSSION:
The City’s Part-Time Salary Schedule includes approximately 31 part-time position classifications used for various City functions.
The City’s current part-time salary schedule became effective January 1, 2023, with a recommendation of a $15.50 minimum wage effective January 1, 2023.
The proposed part-time Salary Schedule 2024 (Attachment A) will ensure that the City complies with the State’s minimum wage requirements.
In 2023, the minimum wage is $15.50 for all employees regardless of employer size. One of the protections of the minimum wage law is an annual review of the wage rate using the U.S.
Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical workers. This law increased the minimum wage over time, consistent with economic expansion while providing safety valves if adverse economic conditions emerged. On July 31, 2023, Governor Newsom certified the minimum wage increase for all employers for 2024 regardless of the number of employees, shall pay to each employee wages not less than $16.00 per hour effective January 1, 2024.
For the City, this increase will continue to help address additional concerns, such as difficulty attracting and retaining qualified part-time staff. To help our employees achieve economic security and acknowledge the higher relative cost of living on the Peninsula, the City Manager recommends approval for a minimum wage that reaches $16.00 per hour, effective January 1, 2024, which will address compaction and retention concerns.
The revised salary schedule includes adjusting salary ranges for eight part-time positions to Pacifica City Council 2
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comply with the minimum wage increase and four have been adjusted to address compaction as follows:
Staff estimates that the proposed changes to the part-time salary schedule will have minimal impact on the City’s operating budget. Budget trends show that departments typically are under budget or absorb additional costs within their operating budget for part-time, hourly positions.
Part-time hourly positions are budgeted based on business needs and are allocated accordingly while minimum wage and hourly wages have continued to increase every year.
ALTERNATIVE ACTION:
Minimum wage salary adjustment is consistent with State requirements; therefore, there is no alternative action provided.
RELATION TO CITY COUNCIL STRATEGIC PLAN:
The recommended action is consistent with the following Council goal:
Enhance Organizational and Fiscal Stability.
FISCAL IMPACT:
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The budget impact of the proposed part-time salary schedule is anticipated to have a minimal impact on the City’s operating budget. The 2022-23 Adopted Budget provides adequate budget authority to allow each department to absorb this annual CPI increase.
ORIGINATED BY:
Human Resources
ATTACHMENT LIST:
Attachment A: Part Time Salary Schedule 2024 (PDF)
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RESOLUTION NO. __-2024
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PACIFICA REVISING THE
PART-TIME SALARY SCHEDULE
WHEREAS, the City of Pacifica annually reviews the salary ranges of its part-time employees for compliance with the State of California Minimum Wage regulations; and WHEREAS, the California Minimum Wage will increase to $16.00 per hour effective January 1, 2024; and
WHEREAS, it is the City’s intent to continue to provide its residents with quality service and programs; and
WHEREAS, it is the City’s desire to attract and retain qualified part-time employees to staff these qualitative programs; and
WHEREAS, it is the City’s desire to improve efficiency by appropriately staffing Departments.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Pacifica that the revised part-time salary schedule listed and included in Attachment A are hereby revised and authorized, as of January 8, 2024.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Pacifica, California, held on the 8th day of January, 2024, by the following vote:
AYES, Councilmembers:
NOES, Councilmembers:
ABSENT, Councilmembers:
ABSTAIN, Councilmembers:
Sue Vaterlaus, Mayor
ATTEST: APPROVED AS TO FORM:
______________________________ ______________________________ Sarah Coffey, City Clerk Michelle Kenyon, City Attorney