The Human Resources and Information Technology Committee is meeting 09/08/2021 at 6:30 PM.
They have one information item which is the Recruitment Status Report. Of note is the fact that there is a background check pending on a top candidate for the Health Officer position.
They also have two action items. The first, a request to approve over hire for a Water Plan Instrument Technician, does not seem too complicated. The city has had a number of over hires come up recently, each time so that a retiring employee with multiple years of experience and institutional knowledge can train a new employee prior to their retirement.
The item I expect to be of most interest to the public is the discussion regarding alderperson salaries. This is listed as an action item so my expectation is that the committee will be deciding on a salary recommendation to present to the Common Council. When this item was last taken up, the committee had eventually voted to recommend a proposal from Alderperson Joe Martin (District 4) that the annual salary for alderpersons be increased by approximately $4,000 to $10,125 per alderperson.
The Common Council did not approve that recommendation, and, instead, the item was referred back to the Human Resources and Information Technology Committee. The committee then decided to hold the item until September to give time for that (at that time) newly elected Council members to be seated and settle into their new jobs prior to having to vote on this.
It is now September, so the committee is taking the item up again. I’m curious to find out in what direction they end up going.
View full meeting details here: https://cityofappleton.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=871592&GUID=DC4A4FA8-61B2-41ED-B874-977150866412
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