City Council Announcements
July 1, 2008
A. Information Needed by Council Staff
1. Council Members,
Council staff would like to update you with
regards to the proposed citywide HR/Compensation audit. Phase One of this
audit includes creating and administering an employee questionnaire, conducting
employee interviews and gathering and analyzing the data. After Phase One
is complete, the City will negotiate the scope of work as well as the contract
details for Phase Two of the audit. The auditor will then proceed – with
some further direction from the City – to address the substantive questions from
Phase One.
Administrative staff and Council staff recommend using Matrix Consulting Group for the HR/Compensation audit, and will work with Matrix to define the employee questionnaire to ensure the questions are customized for city government employees and address specific issues included in the audit scope. If the Council agrees, Council staff will prepare a letter of engagement for Matrix Consulting which is to be signed by the Council Chair.
In addition to using Matrix Consulting Group, a Council Member has suggested the option of using Vincent J. Breglio, Ph.D., formerly with Wirthlin Worldwide, a political and business consulting firm which specialized in polls and their interpretation. Mr. Breglio has offered his services to assist with the development of the questionnaire in Phase One and the Administration has offered to fund his consulting costs.
Are Council Members comfortable moving forward with the audit in this direction? As a reminder, funding for this audit will need to be addressed in a future budget opening during the next fiscal year. (Attached is a copy of the Compensation Audit Scope for your reference.) All Council Members present were in favor of moving ahead with the audit and using Mr. Vincent J. Breglio to prepare the questionnaire. Ms. Gust-Jenson said staff would have to come before the Council in a budget opening for their consideration for funding of audits.
2. The Council office has received the Quarterly Housing Report for the Third Quarter, FY 2007-2008. Would the Council like to hold a briefing on the attached report? All Council Members present wanted to schedule a briefing during a work session.
3. Ms. Gust-Jenson said attached was a letter to the Leonardo Center. She said all Council Members have reviewed the letter. She said on the final look on of the Council Member’s made an additional suggestion. She asked the Council to take a look at the revision. It was decided to take the last sentence of Paragraph 2 completely out of the letter.
4. Ms. Gust-Jenson said staff had given the Council a draft of a form that they were hoping they could get the Community Councils to fill out when the want boundaries changed because so many of them right now want their boundaries changed. She asked the Council to look at the draft and see if it would be helpful at all. She said they were hoping to get them to provide the staff information. She asked the Council Members to get back to staff with suggestions.
B. For Your Information
1. Attached is a Grant Submissions submitted by the City.
Grant Submission Update Memo
TO: Dave Everitt Lyn Creswell, Jennifer Bruno, Ben McAdams
FROM: Grant Acquisition Team
DATE: 7/2/2008
SUBJECT: Salt Lake City Foundation
FUNDING AGENCY: Salt Lake City Arts Council
REQUESTED AMOUNT: $ 2,500
DEPARTMENT APPLYING: Imagination Celebration, YouthCity Artways
COLLABORATING AGENCIES:
DATE SUBMITTED: 6/13/08
SPECIFICS:
Technical Assistance (Training) Equipment Only
Provides FTE Position(s)
Existing New Overtime Requires Funding After Grant
Explanation:
Match Required 100% In Kind Cash
Computer Software Development In House Contract Services
New Program (City not performing function now)
GRANT DETAILS:
The Imagination Celebration requested $2,500 to support programming for the 2008-09 performance season.