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City Manager's 2005 Budget Memo <br />Page 10 of 27 <br />Since Roseville is the lowest taxed jurisdiction in the Stanton V <br />group, we struggle to pay even average salaries. Roseville's pay scale <br />overall is approximately five percent below the Stanton V average. <br />We need to pick our target on the Stanton V scale, and then use that <br />as the basis for both union wage negotiations and non-union pay lev- <br />els. <br />I recommend the Council declare that Roseville will strive to pay at <br />97% of the Stanton V average. This is 3% below the average. If the <br />Council were to approve such a target it would give management <br />and labor a benchmark for negotiations. It would give us direction <br />for union negotiations and enable us to recast our non-union pay <br />scale to conform with the Council's direction. <br />Secause this is a below-average pay scale, I also recommend that the <br />Council authorize a pay scale which, while it is three percent below <br />the Stanton V average, it also contains a 15% margin above the <br />Stanton average for city employees who are high performers. We <br />want to attract the best and brightest to Roseville and don't want to <br />lose them to other organizations. <br />Therefore, I recommend as follows: <br />Council Action Recommendation #5: Council motion authorizing <br />[not authorizing] a new city pay scale pegged at 97% of the <br />Stanton V average but with a pay-for-performance margin of 15% <br />for a limited number of objectively high performing city employ- <br />ees. <br />A change in the Administration budget relates to communications. <br />Each year we receive from Comcast our portion of the franchise fee <br />they pay to use city rights-of-way. This amounts to approximately <br />$200,000 each year. Under federal cable law and our franchise <br />