|
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
News
Funds budgeted for wage hikes : News : Oswego Ledger-Sentinel : Hometown Newspaper for Oswego and Montgomery, IllinoisFunds budgeted for wage hikes
| Wage 'pool' set for full, part-time park district employees
| by Lyle R. Rolfe
| 7/5/2012
|
Salary increases are in store for at least some and possibly all full-and part-time employees of the Oswegoland Park District.
Board members at a special meeting last week, approved placing $155,000 in a district-wide pool to be used for merit increases and wage adjustments for all full and part-time staff members.
Any increases will cover the period from May 1 of this year through April 30, 2013.
Rich Zielke, interim executive director, said May 1 is when salaries are reviewed, but with the recent resignation of Bill McAdam as executive director the reviews were delayed.
He said staff members gathered salary information from surrounding park districts and other taxing bodies for people holding similar positions. These figures will be used for comparisons of what the park district now pays and what officials feel are reasonable increases for the many positions.
Merit increases will be determined by recommendations from department heads, managers and supervisors based on the individual's performance during the past year.
All this information will then be presented to the board for final review and action this month, he said.
Supervisors and department heads will make recommendations for their employees to the board which is expected to make their decision at the July board meeting, he added.
Although the district changed on Jan. 1 to operating on a calendar year, salaries will continue to be reviewed on May 1, and effective through the following April 30, he said.
He said the board approved a 1.5 percent complete wage hike for 2010 and for 2011. Zielke said they gave merit raises in 2008, so this is not new.
He said the motion to establish the pool for this year was made by board member Len Wass and approved by unanimous vote.
The $155,000 represents about three percent of the district's entire payroll for all part and full-time employees. But this does not mean that everyone will receive a three percent raise, or that the district will use the entire $155,000, he said.
Zielke said the funds were approved in the district's 2012 budget so the board action was to appropriate them to be used for wages.
|
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
