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Every three years, the City Administrator is responsible for completing a scope and scale analysis for every full and part time position and making salary adjustment recommendations to the City Council in accordance with personnel compensation policies adopted by the City Council. The City Council is responsible for making compensation adjustments for the position of City Administrator. Current Problem The analysis done in 2003 showed that we were paying the City Administrator $14,312 less than our goal of 90% of the average salaries for the same position in comparable cities. Spreading that amount across three years resulted in a planned annual increase of $4771 for 2004, 2005, and 2006. We did not include any inflationary or cost-of-living increases that the City Administrators/Managers in other comparable cities received during those three years. This error, combined with the salary increases in other comparable cities, results in our inability to reach our 2006 goal. The Stanton Group Survey Data for 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 for City Administrator/City Manager positions in comparable cities was used to determine the average salaries and the annual inflation rates for those salaries. The following metro area cities were used as comparables based upon the Stanton Group Salary • Surveys for City Administrators and City Managers: Ci Po ulation Little Canada 9,825 Arden Hills 9,660 St. Anthony 8,019 Mahtomedi 8,030 Hugo 7,900 Falcon Hei hts 5,672 St. Paul Park 5,095 Wayzata 4,119 Bayport 3,146 Lauderdale 2,364 Analysis of the Stanton Group Salary Survey data available for the past four years demonstrated that, due to inflationary increases in salaries in the nine comparable cities, we will not achieve the goal of raising the salary for the City Administrator position to 90% of the comparable average by January 1, 2006. ~O~