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WELD COUNTY COUNCIL OCT 41977
September 20, 1977 U
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The Weld County Council met in regular session in full
conformity with the Weld County Home Rule Charter at
9th Avenue and 9th Street, Greeley, Colorado, September
20, 1977 at the hour of nine o'clock.
ROLL CALL: The following members were present:
Nancy Clark, President
John Martin, Councilman
Bob E. White, Vice President
Floyd Oliver, Councilman
Robert Martin, Councilman
Also Present: Citizen Wayne Brown; Observer for the League
of Women Voters, Bev Brown; Mr. Ed Lesh; Mr. Ed Dunbar;
Mr. Tom Dority; Mr. Lewis Barrett; 6 members of the press;
and the secretary, Bev. Thomas.
MINUTES: . Bob White made a motion that the September 2, 1977
minutes be adopted. Floyd Oliver seconded the motion and
it was unanimously approved. Floyd Oliver made a motion
that the September 6, 1977 minutes be adopted. Bob Martin
seconded the motion and it was unanimously approved.
CORRESPONDENCE: Nancy Clark presented the following correspon-
dence; 1) A resolution from the County Commissioners
accepting the partial-suspension resolution of the Council
regarding Victor Jacobucci. 2) A letter regarding the budget
meetings from June Steinmark. 3) Nancy listed the outgoing
correspondence.
VICTOR JACOBUCCI CASE: Nancy relayed information she had
gathered regarding this case. She stated she had learned
from the District Attorney that he expects the matter to
be settled within the next month or so. The special
prosecutor is expected to file court actions next week.
Concern was expressed regarding the amount of time that
the County Attorney may be spending in the defense of
Victor Jacobucci even though the County Commissioners have
not appointed him to defend Mr. Jacobucci. Floyd Oliver
suggested that the Council ask the special prosecutor if the
Court could disqualify the County Attorney from representing
Mr. Jacobucci. The Chairperson was to inform the Council
when the special prosecutor world be meeting with the Council.
Bob White made •a motion that Nancy Clark ask Mr. David for
an accounting of the time he had spent on Victor Jacobucci 's
case since August 17, 1977. John Martin seconded the motion
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and it passed unanimously.
Floyd Oliver mentioned that it would seem that the actions
of the Canty Commissioners since Mr. Jacobucci 's
suspension are illegal, since Mr. Jacobucci has continued
to participate as a voting member. Nancy Clark said she
had spoken with the Council 's attorney regarding this matter
and it also seemed to him that it could create legal problems.
1978 BUDGET AND NEW CLASSIFICATION AND PAY PLAN: Mr. Tom Dority
stated that he wanted to make the Council aware of the new
employee classification and pay plan including what it will
do and what costs will be included in the 1978 Budget. Mr.
Barrett gave an overhead-projector presentation describing
different aspects of the employee-classification system.
This included what the plan would do for management as well
as the employees. He gave explanations of the twelve major
job areas, career ladders, and promotion examples.
He referred to a June, 1977 job survey which indicated there
was a wide variance in pay for people doing the same job
within the County as well as discrepancies between Weld
County employees and employees of surrounding cities and
counties. He stated that even if Weld County raised its
pay scale to compare with surrounding areas, the County
would again be behind at the first of the year when employees
of other cities and counties were given a cost-of-living pay
increase.
Mr. Barrett emphasized the importance of a pay plan that
would eliminate expensive, employee turnover. He outlined
four options: 1) Initiate pay raises to bring Weld employees'
pay in line with surrounding cities and counties. 2) Initiate
option one plus a cost-of-living pay increase. 3) Pay only a
5% cost-of-living increase. 4) Do nothing. Option two was
recommended.
A percentage cost-of-living pay increase versus a flat dollar
amount cost-of-living pay increase was discussed.
After a five-minute recess there was a discussion about the
use of Revenue-Sharing monies. Bob White stated that he did
not think it wise to start new programs when present employees
are apparently underpaid. He further stated that he felt as if
the Council was being told that if they did not approve a higher
County budget, it was employees' salaries that would suffer.
Mr. Dority said that there were hundreds of alternatives for
cuts in the budget besides eliminating any new salary schedule.
He also pointed out some alterations had been made in the
budget hearings schedule and so Councilmembers would be •
receiving an updated schedule.
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REPORTS:
ENGINEERING: Floyd Oliver announced that 83rd Avenue had been
beautifully paved, but was receiving little use.
MISCELLANEOUS: Nancy Clark brought up recent problems relating
to the Council's tape recording system. She stated that
the tape recorder was originally purchased primarily for
the secretary's use. However, recently persons have request-
ed to hear taperecordings of Council meetings and the
recordings have not been satisfactory. Councilmembers did
not see the need for seeking funding for a more elaborate
taping system. It was suggested that Nancy present the
problem to the County Commissioners at the Council 's Budget
hearing.
Bob Martin felt that the Council should pursue hiring an
investigator to look into the May 20th Auction, the cost
of road building, and other matters to be determined by
the Council. He suggested funds to pay the investigator
could come from the unused audit fee money.
There being no further businesss, the meeting was adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Beverly Thomas APPROVED (�
Council Secretary
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