City of Vancouver employees recieve COLA raises..

[Waterbuffalo]

"Vancouver employees will receive a 3.3 percent pay increase next year.

The city council approved cost-of-living adjustments for nonunion employees without comment Monday night.

The council typically approves raises to match those given to workers represented by unions."

By Jeffrey Mize
Full article here: http://www.columbian.com/news/localNews/2007/12/12112007_Pay-raise-OKd-for-Vancouver-city-workers.cfm

[Chief]

Reasonable and customary. That percentage is not at all out of line.

[Waterbuffalo]

Not saying up or down is bad.. Just thought I'd post it for every one who might be lurking to get a chance to know more about their City Government..

[karma]

So Buff, have you heard the rest of the story how they are also being asked to pay more for insurance?? All I can say is what raise???

[Chief]

It's a lot more complicated that that karma; much of this is driven m long term contractual requirements and committments that ALL Cities have to work under. Many times these raises are not discretionary or optional, but do allow Council to vote to approve a current rate increase. That goes into long term budgeting and planning by the City, which is no simple subject to discuss either.

I just want to make sure that we stay in the realm of what's really happening on these things, so we don't spin ourselves into butter over minutae...

[karma]

Thanks Chief, that was my point but I put it into terms that some folks will understand instead of the tech. stuff. Still where is that raise?

[Waterbuffalo]

I wanted to make sure that all of us had a current grasp of eocnomic and many other things going on with the Board of Clark County Comissioners and City of Vancouver.