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64.475 Executive Branch Compensation Advisory Council -- Organization -Staff -- Duties -- Recommendations.
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(2)
(3)
There is hereby established an advisory council to be known as the Executive
Branch Compensation Advisory Council.
(a) The council shall consist of three (3) voting members: the state budget
director, the secretary of the Governor's Executive Cabinet, and the
secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet.
(b) The state budget director shall serve as the chair of the council.
(c) If a voting member is unable to attend a meeting of the council, he shall
designate, in writing, a member of his staff to attend in his place, and
such designation shall confer on such designee, for that meeting only, the
authority to act, including the right to vote on any matter coming before
the council.
The council shall be attached to the Personnel Cabinet for administrative
purposes. Personnel Cabinet staff shall provide necessary administrative and
operational support for the council. The council may, from time to time, utilize
the services of professional and technical personnel employed by other
agencies of state government, if the need arises. The council shall meet on a
quarterly basis at a time and place to be determined by the council. Additional
meetings may be called upon request of two (2) voting members of the council.
The duties of the council shall include the following:
(a) Advise and make recommendations to the secretary of the Personnel
Cabinet on appropriate salaries for the following:
1.
The heads of the various departments in the executive branch of
state government, with the exception of:
a.
Departments headed by constitutionally elected officers;
b.
The Department of Education;
c.
The Council on Postsecondary Education; and
d.
The Kentucky Authority for Educational Television;
2.
The heads of offices, as defined in KRS 12.010;
3.
The administrative heads of boards and commissions and for their
employees, if they are not covered by the salary schedules set forth
in KRS Chapter 16, KRS Chapter 18A, or KRS Chapter 151B,
notwithstanding any other statute to the contrary empowering a
board, commission, authority, or other administrative body for which
the Personnel Cabinet provides personnel and payroll services
except for any board governing any of the Kentucky Retirement
Systems, the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority, the
Kentucky Authority for Educational Television, or the Council on
Postsecondary Education to establish, set, or approve the salaries
of its administrative head and other employees;
4.
Requests from boards, commissions, or cabinet heads to approve
salary increases in excess of those increases provided other state
employees to individuals in the positions listed in paragraphs (a),
(b), and (c) of this subsection;
(b)
(4)
Advise the secretary of the Personnel Cabinet on requests from agencies
to establish or abolish a separate salary schedule, or schedules, reflective
of the marketplace need to recruit and hire classified employees in
technical or professional fields when the classified service salary
schedule is inadequate. A positive recommendation of such requests
shall not be granted unless significant credible evidence exists of a job
market shortage and an inadequacy of the classified or unclassified salary
schedules to recruit and retain competent, qualified applicants for such
positions; and
(c) Recommend that the Personnel Cabinet conduct salary surveys of the
executive branch positions outlined in subsection (3)(a)1., 2., and 3. of
this section, using state governments in the seven (7) states contiguous
to the Commonwealth, other states in the southeastern United States,
and private sector employers, where appropriate.
The council's recommendations shall:
(a) Take into consideration the provisions of KRS 64.640, if the specific
position in question is subject to the provisions of KRS 64.640; and
(b) Not take into consideration the provisions of KRS 64.640, if the specific
position in question is exempt from the provisions of KRS 64.640.
Effective:July 14, 2000
History: Created 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 495, sec. 1, effective July 14, 2000.
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