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BACKGROUND The City of Pleasanton employs a range of approximately 200 to 450 temporary employees during the year. Examples of these positions include Library Pages, Aides and Interns, Recreation Leaders, Lifeguards and Preschool Teachers. Current hourly rates for these positions are provided in Attachment 1. These positions are generally part-time, non - benefitted with an average schedule of eight to thirty hours per week. Periodically staff studies compensation to check the City's marketability to employ these temporary workers. The results of the recently completed study have prompted the recommendation before Council. DISCUSSION While adjustments have been made over the past several years to stay in compliance with changing minimum wage laws, there has not been a comprehensive study completed on temporary classifications since 2004. As a result, the recent study revealed some of the City's temporary classifications have fallen below market as compared to nearby cities. Ten of the seventeen temporary classifications are currently below the average wage. These classifications are Library Page, Maintenance Aide, Recreation Leader II and III, Preschool Aide, Preschool Teacher, Lifeguard, Lifeguard Instructor, Assistant Pool Manager and Paratransit Driver. Recommendations to increase the salary structure in these classifications are represented in the attached proposed salary schedule (Attachment 2). In addition to the compensation survey, three additional factors were taken into consideration in making this recommendation. First, City classifications of recreation positions are inconsistent with industry standards. Because of these inconsistencies staff is recommending adjustments in the classifications used in the recreation programming. Recreation Leader IV and V are proposed to be condensed into one classification called Seasonal Senior Recreation Leader (Attachment 2). Current Recreation Leaders will be distributed across four classifications (Recreation Leader I, II, III and Seasonal Senior Recreation Leader) as appropriate. Second, the relationships of the classifications to one another were considered; e.g., the relationship between Recreation Leader I as compared to Recreation Leader II and the relationship between a Lifeguard as compared to a Lifeguard /Instructor. For internal equity, these relationships should provide a logical progression for employees striving to build their skills and advance their careers as well as providing a well - balanced workforce to support City services and programs. Lastly, the California minimum wage will increase on January 1, 2017 from $10.00/hour to $10.50 /hour and again on January 1, 2018 from $10.50 /hour to $11.00 /hour. This climb will continue at the rate of an additional $1.00 /hour until it reaches $15.00 /hour in 2022. The proposed salary schedule will accommodate the increases through 2017. With the elimination of Step 1 for Recreation Leader I and Lifeguard in January of 2018, the proposed salary schedule will accommodate the minimum wage adjustments until January of 2019 when the next recommended compensation study for temporary classifications is completed. Page 2 of 3