BEVERLY HILLS—The Beverly Hills City Council during its City Council Formal Session on Tuesday, April 10 will consider amendments to the Compensation Plan for the City’s executive and senior management employees. The agenda item was rescheduled from the March 6 meeting. The proposed amendments include:

Reorganization of the Administrative Services Department, establishing two separate departments, Finance and Human Resources. The first reading of amendments to the Municipal Code reflecting this reorganization occurred at the City Council meeting of February 20, 2018, and the second reading of the Ordinance occurred at the City Council meeting on March 6, 2018. The changes will be effective April 6, 2018.

Revised Salary Structure, based on the City Council’s direction to move away from the method of using a salary survey to determine salary ranges in a prescriptive manner (75th percentile), to a method based on best practices that establish salary ranges reflective of position responsibilities and market ranges in comparable jurisdictions. There are no salary increases associated with this change in structure.

Internal Salary Separation, removing provisions that tie the salaries of the Deputy Fire Chief, the Fire and Police Chiefs, and the Assistant City Manager to each other and/or those of their management staff that are members of a represented unit. The proposed amendment provides more flexibility to determine increases based on performance rather than by required contractual increases in the represented groups.

Personal Holiday, transitioning the Executive Group from calendar year to fiscal year accrual of personal holidays to align with all other City employees, beginning in calendar year 2019.

Current amendments can be viewed on the city’s website at www.beverlyhills.org/mou.

While not required based on the city’s labor relations ordinance (Beverly Hills Municipal Code, Article 5 Section 2-5-503-B), as is the case with the city’s represented employee groups, the Executive Compensation Plan was placed on the city of Beverly Hills website at least two weeks prior to the meeting in which it will be considered, on March 14. Since there is no fiscal impact associated with the proposed changes, a fiscal analysis was not conducted.