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A resolution adopting a new pay plan for employees of the Metropolitan Board of Health, effective July 1, 2025.
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WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Board of Health, acting in its official capacity as a Civil Service Commission has, pursuant to Sections 12.09 and 12.10 of the Metropolitan Charter, assigned each employment classification to a salary grade as of July 1, 2025, with such assignments being equitably related to each other; and,
WHEREAS, the Board of Health’s Civil Service Commission has adopted the salary ranges for each grade; and,
WHEREAS, the Director of Personnel for the Board of Health has recommended, after the Commission’s approval, desirable salary ranges for each grade to the Director of Finance; and,
WHEREAS, pursuant to RS2024-484, a one-year pay plan was approved by the Metropolitan Council to go into effect on July 1, 2024; and,
WHEREAS, the pay plan that was adopted pursuant to RS2024-484 included increment pay increases that are earned at various time intervals; and,
WHEREAS, it is the desire for these increment increases to continue; and,
WHEREAS, it is further the desire that employees who are paid pursuant to open pay ranges be eligible, at the discretion of the employee’s Appointing Authority, to receive merit pay increases; and,
WHEREAS, the Board of Health’s Civil Service Commission recognizes that the pay scales included in the pay plan adopted pursuant to RS2024-484 should be modified by remaining equivalent to the Standard Range (ST) and Open Range (OR) grades of the General Government pay plan, and by adding the Information Technology (IT) grades as implemented in the General Government pay plan; and,
WHEREAS, the Board of Health’s Civil Service Commission recommends that the HD pay scales in the pay plan be adjusted, for equity and competitive purposes, by 7% as of July 1, 2025; and,
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 12.10 of the Metropolitan Charter, having been advised of its full budgetary implications, the Mayor has modified and approved the plan attached as Exhibit A, such modifications not affecting the relationships between the grades approved by the Board of Health’s Civil Service Commission, and recommends its adoption, as modified, by the Metropolitan Council.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF NASHVILLE AND DAVIDSON COUNTY:
Section 1: The pay plan adopted pursuant to RS2024-484, and which went into effect on July 1, 2024, for employees of the Metropolitan Board of Health, from and after July 1, 2025, shall be as provided in Exhibit “A.” Exhibit A reflects market increases of about 7%-8% for each pay grade, and the continuation of step increments and open range adjustments funded at 2%. Exhibit “A” is incorporated into this Resolution as if fully set out herein.
Section 2: Additional funding shall be provided to the Metropolitan Department of Health in the amount of 2% of that department’s total annual open range salary budget, so that employees in Open Range pay classifications will have the opportunity to receive merit-based salary increases, at the discretion of the Appointing Authority, as reflected in Exhibit “A.” Eligibility for Open Range salary increases for FY26 will become effective as of July 1, 2025.
Section 3: Upon the adoption of the pay plan attached as Exhibit “A,” and upon it becoming effective, the pay plan adopted pursuant to RS2024-484 is hereby repealed.
Section 4: This Resolution shall take effect on July 1, 2025, the welfare of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County requiring it.
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Analysis
This resolution is the pay plan for the employees of the Board of Health to take effect July 1, 2025. The Health Department has its own pay plan because Section 10.107 of the Metro Charter provides that the Board of Health shall constitute a civil service board with respect to the Health employees. The primary effect of this resolution would be to continue the pay plan, continue increment pay, provide a 1% across-the-board increase, and provide for the possibility of merit pay increases for open range employees. Step increases known as “increments” are pay increases for certain employment classifications on a six-month, one-year, eighteen-month, or two-year interval, depending upon the position. Merit pay increases of 2% would be available for step and open range employees, as eligible. The amount of individual raises for open range employees are determined by department heads. The pay plan contemplates that open range employees are to be paid based upon merit, not length of service.
Per section 12.10 of the Metropolitan Charter, pay plans may not be amended by the Council except by making uniform modifications of all employment grades (because the relationship between pay grades must remain the same under the Charter). The pay plan submitted by this resolution has been approved by the Finance Director, the Board of Health, and the Mayor.