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Financial Commission
Subcommittee on City Council Compensation Meeting Minutes
6 April 2006
Call to Order
The meeting was called to order by Mr. Anderson at 6:36 PM
Roll Call
Subcommittee Members Present: Commissioners Anderson (Chair), Paulson and
Shogren-Smith. Staff present: Director of Fiscal & Support Services Jordet.
Discussion
Mr. Anderson paid tribute to Donn Escher, longtime Chairman of the Financial
Commission, who passed away in March.
The difference between ward council members and at-large council members was
clarified, as in the case of Fridley.
Materials prepared for the meeting were reviewed. The Financial Policy sets the
comparison cities at those metropolitan within 10,000 population of Brooklyn Center
and which are generally fully developed. The previous report to the Financial
Commission in 2004 indicated that past Subcommittees have used the benchmark of
the median of the comparison cities as a goal for compensation of the Brooklyn
Center City Council. Compensation relationships between the last study and the
current study were examined. The current compensation for the City Council
relative to the other comparison cities is much the same as it was during the last
study; about 110% above the average for the comparison cities.
Given that the current compensation is about 10% higher than the stated goal for
compensation of the City Council the subcommittee, by consensus, recommended no
increase for City Council compensation in 2007. For 2008, the subcommittee
recommended, again by consensus, a 2% increase in wages for both the Mayor and
each City Council member.
The meeting was adjourned at 6:58 PM
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