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Finance Commission Minutes September 10, 2019 Page 7 of 12 non-union employees with the same COLA and do not want to have internal disparity and external comparisons are done with other cities that are comparable to the City of Roseville. Commissioner Murray indicated the Federal Reserve says 2.4 percent and he thought the employees are then given a .6 percent raise. Chair Hodder thought the States COLA this year was 2.75 percent. Commissioner Murray thought the city was giving the employees a raise in excess of the Cost of Living. Mr. Trudgeon thought if pay was narrowly defined on the same track as Cost of Living. City staff looks at a couple of different factors and he thought it was hard to retain employees and how competitive the job market is and the city is already pegged as ninety-six percent of the peer communities as pay so Roseville, as an employee group, is already making less and the city needs to make sure it stays competitive with that and is part of the factor and not a simple formula. Commissioner Murray asked if turn over has been a problem above normal turnover in the city. Mr. Trudgeon indicated there is a standard turnover and he did not think it was any greater than normal. Commissioner Murray noted on page 10 of Attachment A, he brought this up with former Finance Director Miller a number of times, on the audit, he mentioned it is appropriate on a private company audit that normally there is a management letter from the auditors and the auditors have experience with a number of organizations similar and in this case, cities, who are doing things a little different and the auditor usually makes suggestions but the city auditors have not done that. He asked if it would be appropriate to request that. Mr. Trudgeon indicated that was possible. He noted the auditor does provide a management letter and also came before the Finance Commission before and he wondered if that was asked by the Commission. Commissioner Murray indicated former Finance Director Miller told him that the auditor does not provide a management letter, an audit report is given but is not the same as a management letter. He noted a management letter would be suggestions about doing something differently or suggestions on ways to do things better. Mr. Trudgeon indicated he would look into that to find out what information the city receives and if the auditor can provide it. Commissioner Murray indicated there was mention of an 8.4 increase in the median value of a single family home in Roseville and he reminded staff, the Council and everyone else that regardless of what the increase in the value of the houses are, taxes are paid out of income and