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Page 5 of 12 City of Little Canada, MN: Compensation Proposal Technical Assistance Program staff. Roxanne Chmielewski Roxanne has over 32 years of experience as Human Resources Director for three Minnesota Counties with the last twenty years managing the Human Resources and Labor Relations functions for Sherburne County, a metro ring county with over 600 employees and ten bargaining units. She retired in 2015 and continues to work as a consultant to several counties and cities in Minnesota. Roxanne remains committed to providing local government with professional and effective HR expertise. This commitment was recognized by her peers as she received the Outstanding HR Professional of the Year award from the MN Counties Human Resource Management Association in 1998 and again in 2011 . She also received the Make a Difference award from the National Public Employer Labor Re lations Association in 2012. George Gmach George has been doing classification and compensation study work in Minnesota for 30 years . He worked with the Stanton Group for 12+ years with management responsibility for salary and benefit surveys and compensation consulting. His experience has crossed multiple industries and included private, non-private and public sectors. George also worked at Employers Association and its successor for 16 years. During his career, he has designed and conducted several hundred compensation and benefit surveys and has implemented multiple compensation programs in large and small organizations across all sectors. He designed and modified job evaluation systems and implemented them in the public sector. He has worked with the Minnesota Pay Equity Statutes since their inception. In addition, he is a military veteran who served as a combat medic in Vietnam . Reference #1: City of Victoria, Minnesota Contact: Gwen Campbell, Communications and HR Manager 952-443-4230 gcampbell@ci.victoria.mn.us Contract dated: May 15, 2019 – completed October 2019 Scope of Services: This was a full-service class and comp study for a rapidly growing suburban community. We updated all job descriptions including several new job titles; classified all job titles using DDA’s JET system, completed a market analysis of 14 benchmark communities (93% participation) and 5 “spotlight communities”, evaluated two alternative salary plans with pay ranges calibrated at 100% of benchmark averages, and provided an implementation plan with employee-by- employee grade/step assignments and a calculation of budget impact. Victoria says they plan to enroll in DDA’s ongoing service program.