MONROE - Monroe's city clerk will get a new title and additional duties after the Common Council adopted a resolution Tuesday, Feb. 18 approving a higher salary for City Clerk Carol Stamm.
Stamm's salary will be raised from $59,591 to $62,085 in conjunction with her new duties and a title change to City Clerk/Director of General Government resulting from a change to the city's organizational chart.
The motion carried 5-1 with aldermen Charles Schuringa, Brooke Bauman, Tyler Schultz, Jeff Newcomer and Reid Stangel voting in favor of the resolution and alderman Michael Boyce voting against.
City Administrator Philip Rath said the city clerk's new duties will involve zoning concerns, which include supervising the new building inspector and city hall secretary.
Rath explained the city adopted a compensation plan about a year ago that placed all of the non-represented positions into a scale based on grades and steps. Each position was scored on skills, education, budgetary authority and supervisory authority, and each position was then placed on the scale based on the score.
"(The city clerk) is absorbing another department, essentially, so there's more supervisory authority, some different skills that will be needed; and absorbing the budget for that adjusted the scores, which shifted the position into a higher grade, and that is what the compensation is based on," Rath said. "So basically (we're) asking the position to take on more, and compensating accordingly.
"It's not anything about the person; it's about the position itself," Rath said.
Stamm's salary will be raised from $59,591 to $62,085 in conjunction with her new duties and a title change to City Clerk/Director of General Government resulting from a change to the city's organizational chart.
The motion carried 5-1 with aldermen Charles Schuringa, Brooke Bauman, Tyler Schultz, Jeff Newcomer and Reid Stangel voting in favor of the resolution and alderman Michael Boyce voting against.
City Administrator Philip Rath said the city clerk's new duties will involve zoning concerns, which include supervising the new building inspector and city hall secretary.
Rath explained the city adopted a compensation plan about a year ago that placed all of the non-represented positions into a scale based on grades and steps. Each position was scored on skills, education, budgetary authority and supervisory authority, and each position was then placed on the scale based on the score.
"(The city clerk) is absorbing another department, essentially, so there's more supervisory authority, some different skills that will be needed; and absorbing the budget for that adjusted the scores, which shifted the position into a higher grade, and that is what the compensation is based on," Rath said. "So basically (we're) asking the position to take on more, and compensating accordingly.
"It's not anything about the person; it's about the position itself," Rath said.