For City Council Meeting May 14, 2024
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
FROM: Tanya Williams, Acting City Manager
AUTHOR: Shama Curian, Director of Human Resources and Risk Management
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Request City Council to Adopt Resolution No. 8209, Amending the Salary for the Utilities Manager Classification.
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BACKGROUND
On July 12, 2016 the City Council approved Resolution 6981 establishing the Utilities Manager Position.
The job classification was updated and amended on November 14, 2023.
After many years of dedicated service to the City, Rialto's Utilities Manager retired from service in late December, 2023. Recognizing the potential for significant interruption in service this vacancy could cause, on December 7, 2023, the City opened a competitive recruitment for Utilities Manager. However, with the lack of qualified candidates responding to the recruitment, Human Resources/Risk Management conducted a salary survey among surrounding cities and comparator agencies that had a similar situated position. The survey identified a need to increase the salary range for the Utilities Manager to 6400A, which accurately reflects the scope of significant duties and services that are undertaken by this position.
ANALYSIS/DISCUSSION
The Utilities Manager position is a management-level position that reviews the activities and operations of the City's water/wastewater utilities under a Public Private Partnership. This position also takes on the responsibility of being the City appointed liaison between the City/RUA and the Concessionaire. As such, this uniquely situated position undertakes complex responsibilities in order to meet service delivery standards.
A comprehensive salary review of comparator agencies with positions similar to that of Utilities Manager was conducted. The analysis also took into consideration those agencies the City considered competitive agencies within the surrounding area, and agencies that had a similar organizational and pay struc...
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