DATE: November 17, 2017
TO: Board of Mayor and Aldermen
FROM: Eric Stuckey, City Administrator
Kevin Townsel, Human Resources Director
SUBJECT:
Consideration Of Resolution 2017-83, A Resolution To Amend The Position Classification And Compensation Plan For The Employees Of The City Of Franklin, TN
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Purpose
The purpose of this memorandum is to provide information to the Franklin Board of Mayor and Aldermen (BOMA) concerning the adoption of an updated Comprehensive Classification and Compensation plan ("Pay Plan").
Background
The City awarded a contract to Burris, Thompson & Associates to conduct a comprehensive classification and compensation study. The goal of this effort is to update the City of Franklin's pay plan to provide a highly-competitive, market-based pay structure that attracts and retains top talent to deliver high-quality city services to the community. The existing pay plan needs to be updated to reflect changes within the marker and has not been reviewed in a comprehensive manner since its implementation in 2014.
To date the following have been accomplished:
* The consultants and Human Resources team have interviewed department directors to get overviews of their departments and identify and discuss the most difficult pay-related issues.
* Department directors had the ability to describe employee duties and the needed skills, knowledge and abilities for positions within their departments.
* Burris, Thompson & Associates have reviewed the job descriptions for all jobs.
* Burris, Thompson & Associates discussed certain jobs with Human Resources to gain a better understanding of the job functions for various positions.
18 cities responded to the comprehensive salary survey - Burris, Thompson & Associates has compiled the data from the survey and a database of private sector wages to identify a market rate for all City of Franklin jobs. As jobs were reviewed, some were assigned to a new set of pay grades - and pay rang...
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