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Item No. 07G Meeting Date: April 10, 2006 Type of Busine City Administrator Review To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Kurt Ulrich, City Administrator Desaree Crane, Assistant to the City Administrator Item Title/Subject: Resolution 6792, Awarding a Firm to Conduct a Salary Compensation and Pay Equity Report for Mounds View Employees Introduction A RFP for a Mounds View Salary Compensation Study and Pay Equity Report was authorized by the Mounds View City Council on February 13, 2006, with the passing of Resolution 6732. Staff received 4 proposals for this study. Discussion The Human Resources Committee has been pursuing a compensation study that puts into consideration population, city market value, and taxable tax capacity instead of just using Stanton 6 cities (population 10,000 — 25,000) as outlined in the Personnel Manual. The City Council also agreed to these parameters at the February 13, 2006 City Council Meeting. The RFP put these parameters as part of the compensation study. The study would encompass all positions within the City (both union and non -union). Any compensation adjustments resulting from this study could then be negotiated into new contracts and/or included in budgets for 2007. In addition to the salary compensation, the Request for Proposal also requests that a Pay Equity Report be completed. The State of Minnesota's Pay Equity Law requires that: ... "every political subdivision of this state shall establish equitable compensation relationships between female -dominated, male -dominated, and balanced classes of employees in order to eliminate sex -based wage disparities in public employment in this state." (Minn. Stat. § 471.992, subd. 1) The term "equitable compensation relationship" means that the compensation for female - dominated classes is not consistently below the compensation for male -dominated classes of comparable work value ... (Minn. Stat. §. 471.991, subd. 5). The Mounds View Pay Equity Report is due to the Department of Employee Relations by January 31, 2007.