HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-69 - Creating the Employee Compensation Philosophy CommitteeRESOLUTION NO. 2024-69
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA, CREATING
THE EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION PHILOSOPHY
COMMITTEE
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Newport Beach ("City Council")
previously adopted Resolution No. 2001-50, the "Employer -Employee Relations
Resolution," pursuant to authority contained in the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act,
Government Code 3500, et seq.;
WHEREAS, the City of Newport Beach ("City") promotes effective
communication and collaborative working relationships with its employees while
balancing good management practices;
WHEREAS, on June 14, 2011, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 2011-
55, setting forth the City's total compensation philosophy ("Total Compensation
Philosophy"), which emphasized the City's desire to attract, motivate and retain highly
competent, efficient, and effective employees, while maintaining the City's strong
financial position;
WHEREAS, Resolution No. 2011-55 contemplated that the City's analysis of the
compensation for individual positions would be measured with respect to market
surveys, including both municipal and relevant private sector comparisons;
WHEREAS, on August 13, 2013, the City Council approved a list of comparator
agencies for purposes of conducting pay and benefit surveys;
WHEREAS, over the last several years, the City has faced a variety of
recruitment and retention challenges, including, but not limited to, inflationary pressures,
minimum wage increases, competition with the private sector as well as other public
sector agencies, employee attrition related to retirement and relocations, and increasing
workload demands; and
WHEREAS, the City Council desires to create the Employee Compensation
Philosophy Committee ("Committee") for the purpose of reviewing and providing
recommendations to the entire City Council on the Total Compensation Philosophy, as
well as the designated comparator public agencies that are used for purposes of
conducting compensation, pay and benefit surveys.
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NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Newport Beach resolves as
follows:
Section 1: The City Council hereby creates the Committee, which shall be
comprised of Mayor Pro Tern Stapleton, and Councilmembers Kleiman and Blom. The
term of the appointed members of the Committee shall be indefinite pending City
Council action or expiration of the Committee as set forth in this resolution.
Section 2: The sole purpose and responsibility of the Committee shall be to
review and provide recommendations to the entire City Council on the Total
Compensation Philosophy, as well as the designated comparator public agencies that
are used for purposes of conducting compensation, pay and benefit surveys.
Section 3: The Committee shall function as an ad hoc committee and shall not
be subject to the Brown Act.
Section 4: The Committee shall expire upon making its recommendations to
the entire City Council, at a noticed public meeting of the City Council, or December 31,
2025, whichever is earlier.
Section 5: The recitals provided in this resolution are true and correct and are
incorporated into the operative portion of this resolution.
Section 6: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this
resolution is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not
affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions of this resolution. The City
Council hereby declares that it would have passed this resolution and each section,
subsection, sentence, clause or phrase hereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or
more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid or
unconstitutional.
Section 7: The City Council finds the adoption of this resolution is not subject
to the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA") pursuant to Sections 15060(c)(2)
(the activity will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change
in the environment) and 15060(c)(3) (the activity is not a project as defined in Section
15378) of the CEQA Guidelines, California Code of Regulations, Title 14, Division 6,
Chapter 3, because it has no potential for resulting in physical change to the
environment, directly or indirectly.
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Section 8: This resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption by
the City Council, and the City Clerk shall certify the vote adopting this resolution.
ADOPTED this loth day of September, 2024.
Will O'Neill
Mayor
Leilani I. Brown
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
Aaron C. Harp
City Attorney
STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF ORANGE } ss.
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH }
I, Leilani I. Brown, City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California, do hereby certify that the
whole number of members of the City Council is seven; the foregoing resolution, being Resolution
No. 2024-69 was duly introduced before and adopted by the City Council of said City at a regular meeting
of said Council held on the 'I Oth day of September, 2024; and the same was so passed and adopted by the
following vote, to wit:
AYES: Mayor Will O'Neill, Mayor Pro Tern Joe Stapleton, Councilmember Brad Avery,
Councilmember Noah Blom, Councilmember Robyn Grant, Councilmember
Lauren Kleiman, Councilmember Erik Weigand
NAYS: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of said
City this 11th day of September, 2024.
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