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DISCUSSION The City Council appoints and evaluates the City Attorney. (Government Code §36505.) In 2014, the City Council approved committee assignments, and the City Attorney Evaluation Committee consists of Mayor Thorne and Councilmember Narum. This subcommittee has met with the City Attorney to evaluate and summarize his accomplishments. The subcommittee shared this information, as well as a salary survey, with the full Council at a noticed Special Meeting (Closed Session Employee Evaluation and Conference with Labor Negotiator) on August 18, 2015. The City Attorney's existing contract was entered into in December 2009. In January 2011 the City Attorney, like the City Manager, started paying the employee member contribution share of his pension, which resulted in an 8% deduction from his pay. A recent survey of the 27 in-house Bay Area city attorneys' salary and pension contribution were reviewed and revealed Pleasanton's City Attorney is 7.0% below the mean (average). Based on an evaluation of City Attorney Jonathan Lowell's accomplishments since 2010, as well as the salary survey, the attached First Amendment adjusts his annual salary by 5% effective September 1, 2015 from $195,000 to $204,750. As this salary increase does not exceed his salary prior to 2011, it will not impact his pension. The First Amendment also amends his contract to reflect what the City Attorney has been doing since 2011: paying the 8% employee paid member contribution share of his pension. Submitted on behalf of the City Council: Fiscal eview: c"7 J. 14 Jerry Thorne Tina Olson Mayor Director of Finance Attachment: First Amendment to Employment Contract