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e e e ~ ~ EN HILLS MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor and City Council JJIII//1/ ...- Joe Lynch, City Administrat~ FROM: SUBJECT: Employee benefit parity proposal DATE: September 12,2001 cc: Personnel benefits file Backl!round Previously I had presented you with a proposal brought to me by Terry Post on the equalization of benefits within the City of Arden Hills for City of Arden Hills employees. Basically, the proposal was to allow those employees who do not take advantage of the family health care coverage through the City of Arden Hills to gain the same dollar benefit by allowing them to increase their deferred compensation through the International City Managers Association, with the difference between single health and dental insurance coverage and the maximum amount of benefit provided by the City of Arden Hills. One of the things I was charged with when I was brought on board was to help with the concern over the working envirornnent ofthe City staff. One concern was that there may not be enough administrative support personnel to assist administrative staff in accomplishing all the things that needed to be done. The second concern was the working envirornnent which included physical space but also the perception that the City of Arden Hills needed to take a look at who we were attracting to our positions, why they were attracted, and why they stayed or left. One of the concerns that has been expressed to me has been the fact that the City has always seen itself as a "training ground" for employees. The acceptance of the fact that employees stay with us from a few years to less than ten, only to move on to bigger and better jobs, has been found to be status quo. 1 believe that you have an opportunity in the form ofthis benefit parity proposal to begin to make another correction to that perception. Combined with the reorganization and the process we are