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Chairman Scurlock wished to compliment Mr. Collins on.the <br />time and effort he has spent on this and wished him to understand <br />any comments the Commission may make are not criticism, but just <br />constructive input. <br />Commissioners Eggert and Wheeler added their commendations. <br />Acting Administrator Collins expressed his appreciation, but <br />noted that unfortunately, even with all the work, we do not <br />necessarily have a perfect product and there are still adjust- <br />ments to be made. He emphasized, however, the importance of <br />taking some action now as he felt the worst thing we could do at <br />this point is put the study back on the shelf and fine tune it <br />for another year. Mr. Collins clarified that what is proposed <br />does give each county employee at least a 5% raise for this year, <br />and it does give raises to those people the salary survey <br />identified as being significantly underpaid. <br />Commissioner Eggert asked the appeal process for someone who <br />feels they are in the wrong classification. <br />Acting Administrator Collins stated that this has been <br />handled unevenly up to now. There were -approximately 120 people <br />who appealed their classification, and the Personnel Department <br />reviewed and analyzed whether there was or wasn't merit to those <br />appeals. if there was merit, we have made the adjustments and <br />incorporated that into this pay plan. The problem is that <br />certain departments were told that no appeals would be enter- <br />tained until after the survey was implemented, and that is really <br />not fair. All we can do, however, is ask any employee who feels <br />their classification is incorrect to submit a request for <br />re-evaluation, process it through their department head, and we <br />will have the department head meet with Personnel and re-evaluate <br />these as we can. If there does need to be a correction, we will <br />make it in the next fiscal year or if there are some funds <br />available because someone quits, possibly we can accomplish it <br />this year. Acting Administrator Collins noted that we can't <br />entertain every appeal right now; we have to draw the line <br />35 <br />SEP 2 o 1988 Roos 74 FE J� 9 <br />