07-31-2012 (City Council) Minutes Wylie City Council
CITY OF WYLIE
Minutes
Special Called Work Session
Wylie City Council Meeting
July 31, 2012 — 6:00 p.m.
Wylie Municipal Complex— Council Conference Room
300 Country Club Road, Bldg. 100
Wylie, TX 75098
CALL TO ORDER _
Announce the presence of a Quorum.
Mayor Eric Hogue called the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m. with the following Wylie City Council
members present: Mayor Pro Tem Kathy Spillyards, Councilwoman Diane Culver, Councilman
David Goss, Councilman Nathan Scott, Councilman Bennie Jones and Councilman Rick White.
Staff present included: City Manager, Mindy Manson; Finance Director, Linda Bantz; Library
Director, Rachel Orozco; Police Chief, John Duscio; Fire Chief, Randy Corbin; Public
Information Officer Craig Kelly and City Secretary, Carole Ehrlich. Many support staff were
present.
INVOCATION & PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Fire Chief Corbin gave the invocation and Shift Commander Parker led the Pledge of
Allegiance.
CITIZENS COMMENTS ON NON-AGENDA ITEMS
Residents may address Council regarding an item that is not listed on the Agenda. Residents must provide their
name and address. Council requests that comments be limited to three (3) minutes. In addition, Council is not
allowed to converse, deliberate or take action on any matter presented during citizen participation.
Lynn Grimes, owner of Wylie Art Gallery addressed council concerning the executive session
and comments made regarding pay increases for some of those on the market survey. She
commended staff on the market list for the many hours spent and volunteering after hours to
support projects for the city. She commented her disappointment in not supporting all staff
increases on the list.
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Bobby Heath, 205 Arborview Dr. addressed council stating that he supported increases for staff
to keep qualified personnel working in the city.
WORK SESSION
• FY 2012-2013 Budget Discussion
City Manager Manson addressed council stating that per council direction the budget salary
increases of 2%, 3.5% and 5% recommended at the last work session do not include staff listed
on the market survey which brought the cost down from $507,000 to $443,000. This change
places the projected revenues over expenditures at $463,460. Manson explained the salary
market survey is still reflected in the discussion items as well as the narcotics (sergeant for %
yr.), animal control employee for full time and part time, and branding expenditures. Also
included are the costs to reduce the tax rate by 1 cent and a half cent. Manson reported the
total costs to fund the market survey, narcotics sergeant and a full time animal control
administrative secretary is $306,883.
Mayor Hogue asked about the battalion chiefs who were not on the market survey, noting that
he knew they would receive the 2%, 3.5% or 5% salary increase. He asked what their grade
and salaries were. Manson replied the positions were created and authorized as shift
commander positions due to budget issues at that time. She explained that there was somewhat
of a compression issue between the shift commanders but there were no recommendations at
this time for salary adjustments.
Finance Director Bantz reported the battalion chiefs were noted in the overall salary survey but
were not an official position within the city at this time. Bantz explained their current pay was for
a fire captain plus assignment pay. Mayor Hogue asked why they were not in the market
adjustments as battalion chiefs. Manson reiterated the decision at that time was to assign them
as shift commanders. Mayor Hogue commented that he wished the battalion chiefs were in the
market survey. Manson explained that the market survey was based on those under the market
by at least 15%; she noted that staff did not look at those under the market by 5% because that
would have included many more employees.
RECONVENE INTO OPEN SESSION
Take any action as a result from Work Session.
Mayor Hogue convened into Executive Session reading the captions below at 6:42 p.m.
EXECUTIVE SESSION
Recess into Closed Session in compliance with Section 551.001, et.seq. Texas Government Code, to wit:
Sec. 551.074. PERSONNEL MATTERS; CLOSED MEETING. (a) This chapter does not
require a governmental body to conduct an open meeting:
(1) to deliberate the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline,
or dismissal of a public officer or employee; or
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(2) to hear a complaint or charge against an officer or employee.
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply if the officer or employee who is the subject of
the deliberation or hearing requests a public hearing.
• For the following positions:
Emergency Management Coordinator
IT Manager
Budget Officer
Police Sergeant
Public Information Officer
HR Manager
City Secretary
Library Director
Finance Director
Police Chief
IT System Administrator
Assistant Finance Director
Mayor Hogue reconvened into open session at 8:53 p.m.
RECONVENE INTO OPEN SESSION
Take any action as a result from Work Session or Executive Session.
Mayor Hogue reconvened into work session at 8:54 p.m.
WORK SESSION
• FY 2012-2013 Budget Discussion
Mayor Hogue reported there was $463,664 in additional funding for the FY 2012-2013
budget. Based on that number he asked council to give the city manager direction regarding
amounts to expend for the market survey, the narcotics unit and the animal control
administrative staff. Hogue noted that a portion of the overall funding for the market survey
would be to fund the annual salary increase for the city manager. City Manager Manson
explained the salary increase for the city manager would be done as a budget amendment at
the time the funding was appropriated.
Direction from council was to give the recommended market adjustment to the police
sergeants and to divide the remainder per the recommendations by council, not to exceed
$117,000 overall and to include some of the remainder of market funding for additional salary
adjustments for the four battalion chiefs. Further direction was to fund the narcotics unit and a
part time administrative secretary for animal control and reduce the tax rate by$.01.
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ADJOURNMENT
A motion was made by Councilman Goss, seconded by Councilman Jones to adjourn the
meeting at 9:32 p.m. A vote was taken and the motion passed unanimously.
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