For City Council Meeting [January 26, 2021]
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
APPROVAL: Sean Grayson, Acting City Manager
FROM: Eric Vail, Interim City Attorney
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Request the City Council Approve Acting Pay for the Position of Acting City Manager in Fiscal Year 2020-2021.
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BACKGROUND
On September 22, 2020, Rialto's City Manager announced his retirement. In order to provide for a transition of leadership the Rialto City Council appointed the City's Fire Chief Sean Grayson to the position of Acting City Manager effective September 25, 2020. The City Council will be determining the process for the appointment of a new permanent City Manager in the future. Upon the appointment of a permanent City Manager Sean Grayson will return to the position of Fire Chief. The City has established acting pay criteria for other positions in the City but there is not an established provision for an Acting City Manager.
ANALYSIS/DISCUSSION
The acting pay criteria applicable to the Rialto Fire Management Association is, "After eighty (80) consecutive working hours in a higher classification, an affected employee shall be compensated for working in the acting classification at a rate that is the lowest step of the higher classification that pays more than the employee currently receives in the lower classification. Such increase must be at least five percent (5%) above the employee's current pay, retroactive to the first date of the acting status. At such time the employee no longer works in the acting assignment, he or she shall be compensated at his or her regular rate of pay for his or her pertinent classification." If applied to the Acting City Manager position this would move Acting City Manager Sean Grayson to the City Manager pay scale effective September 27, 2020, the beginning of the pay period starting after his appointment to the position. The acting pay will stop effective the day that Sean Grayson is no longer the Acting City Manager or June 30, 2021 as...
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