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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,June 03,2013 Page 3 Preliminary to this discussion three (3) bench handouts were provided related to this item. The bench handouts were entitled, "Survey Methodology/Benchmarks & Comparables;" "2012 Compensation & Classification Study Methodology;" and an e-mail dated June 3, 2013 from Human Resources Manager Eldona Bacon to Interim City Manager Trudgeon related to benefit impacts to the budget for compensation study recommendation implementation." Interim City Manager Trudgeon introduced Human Resources Manager Bacon, and Ms. Ann Antonsen, Vice President of Springsted, the consultant having con- ducted the survey for the City of Roseville. Mr. Trudgeon advised that the June 10, 2013 preliminary agenda included an action item for the City Council's con- sideration of implementing the study recommendations. Ms. Bacon summarized the Request for Council Action (RCA) dated June 3, 2013; as detailed in the report and its attachments. Ms. Bacon clarified that the study, at that time, did not include paid, on-call fire staff due to related variables and market considerations that were ongoing; and advised that a study for that group would be presented at a later time. Ms. Bacon noted that the purpose of tonight's presentation was based on a previ- ous City Council directing staff to bring back more detail of the study, outlined in the attachments; at which time Ms. Bacon elaborated on those attachments for the benefit of the City Council. Ms. Bacon advised that the study originally looked at comparisons with twenty(20) other cities with comparable positions to those thir- teen (13) subsequently reviewed and where data was available. Eventually, Ms. Bacon advised that the study was able to realistically highlight and average those similar benchmark positions within the pay system and comparisons with ten (10) cities in that original group and the market itself. Ms. Bacon advised that the at- tachments also highlighted any anomalies found during the study. In reviewing the bench handouts, Ms. Bacon advised that their purpose was to ad- dress the City Council's previous request to bring back information on how those compensations changes impacted actual payroll costs (e.g. FICA, Medicare, and PERA) and benefits (e.g. short- and long-term disability and paid time off—PTO —payouts); with examples provided. Discussion with Councilmembers included organization wide impacts, not sepa- rated out for tax- versus non-tax-supported funds; the parallel study data gathered for City Council pay that was excluded from the employee study; specific cities used for the comparable data; and a thorough review of survey methodology, benchmarks and comparables. Councilmember Laliberte opined that the more detailed information and explana- tion had been helpful for her; and stated that it would have been helpful to have that information provided during the first presentation. On a related note, Coun-