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I <br />I <br /> <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />Arqument of the city <br /> <br /> The City argues that the Comparative Worth Act requires that <br />the comparative worth study for the City of Ramsey be given greater <br />weight than the outside market factors or external comparison of <br />the Stanton Group V. Accordingly, it has given to the outsize <br />external comparisons of Stanton Group V, 49%, and the internal <br />considerations of the pay equity study under the Minnesota <br />Comparative Worth Law 51%. Applying the 51% to the 3% wage <br />increase for employees of the City represented by AFSCME for 1989 <br />and 1990 (internal)and 3.9% average settlement for Stanton <br /> <br />Group V for the years 1989 and 1990, the resulting percentage is <br />3.4% which is the City's proposed increase for each year. <br /> <br /> It argues that to grant the Union's requested wage increases <br />would further exacerbate this disparity already evident in the <br />City's current comparable worth analysis between the pay for police <br />officers and that of other City jobs. The comparative worth <br />corridor (80%-120%) indicates that the police officers are above <br />the corridor of acceptable pay for the City of Ramseyo <br /> <br /> It further notes that the City is one of the smallest cities <br />in the Stanton Group V and of this group consisting of 45 it has <br />the lowest total taxable capacity and the lowest taxable capacity <br />per capita. <br /> <br /> It further notes that the landfill revenues from the <br />landfill cannot be used to augment the City's budget for operating <br />purposes except in cases of emergency. <br /> <br />7 <br /> <br /> <br />