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Councilmember Haas Steffen felt it was unfair that the exempt employees were asked to come up with their own rating system - they should be allowed to participate - but not have the job of actually doing it. She added that she also is not in favor of retroactivity. Councilmember Zimmerman stated that the City has wrestled with pay for performance and no one can come up with a plan that seems fair. He felt that the Council should be involved 50% in the performance evaluating. Councilmember Haas Steffen disagreed and stated that the Council is a policy board - they do not belong in the administration field. Council does not work closely enough with the employees to do their evaluations. Councilmember Beyer stressed the importance of training for the evaluators. Councilmember Haas Steffen suggested setting aside funding to develop a system. Motion by Councilmember Beyer and seconded by Councilmember Zimmerman to use the 2% set aside to hire a firm to come up with a pay for performance plan. Further discussion: Councilmember Haas Steffen felt that if you say you have that amount of money to hire someone to do something, that's what it will cost. Councilmember Beyer suggested bids would be requested. Ms. Waite Smith inquired if the Committee is stating there will be no additional increase for the exempt employees for 1997. Motion failed. Voting Yes: Councilmembers Beyer and Zimmerman. Voting No: Mayor Gamec and Councilmembers Beahen and Haas Steffen. Motion by Mayor Gamec and seconded by Councilmember Haas Steffen to increase the exempt employees' salary by 1%, retroactive to January 1, 1997, and that the other 1% be put into a fund for developing a system for pay for performance. This motion does not include an additional raise for the City Engineer who received a 6.47% increase previously nor does it include the Police Chief and the two sergeants - all of whom were appointed to these positions in 1997. Motion carried. Voting Yes: Mayor Gamec, Councilmembers Haas Steffen and Beahen. Voting No: Councilmembers Beyer and Zimmerman. Case/t6: Authorize Line Item Reallocations in the 1997 Adopted Budget for Cost Center #452 - Park Maintenance Finance Officer Hart explained that in the past, we have always made "blanket" budget amendments after the year-end was complete. This year we are attempting to project the year- end position and provide a budget amendment based on that projection. There is no change to the overall budget, but because of classification changes, staff needs the authorization from City Council. She stated these are basically "housekeeping issues". Finance Committee/October 28, 1997 Page 4 of 6