Executive Committee of the Legislative Council
The Executive Committee moved to draft next year's legislative branch budgets at flat employee compensation — no salary or benefit-share increase — pending JBC action, after budget staff warned the governor's proposed 3.5% raise and full benefit backfill likely aren't affordable. Members also took a first look at dues for the multistate legislative organizations Colorado belongs to, with a vote set for next week.
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“I am concerned that neither of those proposals will be viable for the state's budget, that the 3.5% salary increase is probably not going to be viable given our current fiscal climate and the health, life dental increase is also quite expensive.”
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Sign in to subscribeEmployee compensation. This is the employee compensation for the legislative branch and part of our conversation today will include some direction to the legislative management team regarding. There he is. Regarding how we will consider compensation in budget drafting for our agency directors and we're also going to talk about the governmental organizations that we participate in as a dues paying member, ncsl, CSG west and ecs. So we'll be talking about them momentarily and then any other business that the executive committee would like to bring forward. So we are going to start this morning with Director Harper from the Joint Budget Committee to talk to us about our options on employee compensation. Director Harper, good morning. Thank you Madam Chair. CRAIG harper, Joint Budget Committee Staff I actually presented this memo last week, so I'm not sure that I have a whole lot more to add. I think just as a quick reminder, the request from the governor's office came out to about a 3.5% salary increase that aligns with the WINS agreement. The other big component that we that we talked about last week was health, life and dental insurance. WINS agreement calls for the state to…
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