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M clause: "In advance of each new fiscal year County Administrator shall discuss Administrator's performance and mutually agree on any salary increase, which increase shall become effective October 1 of each year." Commissioner Bowman clarified that clause to mean no cap and no percentage, and Commissioner Eggert agreed. Chairman Bird believed that clause was pretty open-ended, and he personally felt more comfortable with a cap and cost -of -living increase. Commissioner Eggert asked the Board members to remove the word "cap" from their minds. She stated this contract amendment would put him in a maximum pay rate and that is not a cap, in her definition of a cap. To her a cap means the job is worth a certain amount and he cannot earn any more than that amount, and her problem is that this is functioning like the pay grades all the other employees are in. He has put himself in that maximum pay grade and this goes up with interest, which is a different philosophy. Commissioner Eggert also pointed out her aim was to keep the personality out and gear the discussion to the job. She reported Jack Price had done a survey of administrators and county attorneys and other positions in that office to ascertain a general range and discovered it could be compared to judgeships which are capped and reinvestigated periodically, and decisions are made whether or not to adjust the cap. Commissioner Eggert felt Attorney Vitunac is placing himself in a maximum pay grade and, while there is nothing wrong with being like any other County employee, he is putting himself into that pot while Administrator Chandler and Liz Forlani are in another pot. Commissioner Eggert saw the professional relationships with the county attorney and with the county administrator as different when they should be the same; therefore, the same contract. Attorney Vitunac offered to delete paragraph one if the idea of a cap is a problem. His intent was to take less money than the contract presently authorizes. He would be happy with no merit raises, no automatic raises, nothing more than what the department heads receive. He had originally written this up so that he would get the cost -of -living raises the employees would get, but Commissioner Eggert pointed out that we may want to give the employees a higher cost -of -living raise at some time than we give department heads because a percentage raises more actual dollars on a higher salary. He agreed with that and, accordingly, whatever the Board decides department heads deserve is what he would take. UL 23, 19 39