BOARD AGENDA MEMORANDUM
Government Code § 84308 Applies: Yes ☐ No ☐
(If “YES” Complete Attachment A - Gov. Code § 84308)
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Adopt a Resolution Adopting Employee Salary Schedule Effective June 22, 2026, The Beginning of Pay Period 14 of Fiscal Year 2027.
(*Previously Listed as Item 4.2)
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RECOMMENDATION: Recommendation
Adopt the Resolution ADOPTING EMPLOYEE SALARY SCHEDULE - EFFECTIVE PAY PERIOD 14 OF FISCAL YEAR 2027.
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SUMMARY:
Board approval of the Employees Salary Schedule serves the following purpose:
1. Compliance with state law, which requires that the governing body of a public agency formally approves salary schedules for all employees and make them available for public review; and
2. Updates and makes the salary schedule current for Santa Clara Valley Water District (Valley Water) classified employees, executive employees, and Board Appointed Officers.
Compliance with State Legal Requirement
Approval of the Employee Salary Schedule by the Board of Directors is required under Title 2 California Code of Regulations, section 570.5, and its requirement of a publicly available pay schedule approved by a public body for all employee classifications. Under this requirement, the amount of “compensation earnable” for purposes of calculating retirement benefits is limited to the amount listed on a pay schedule meeting the following requirements:
(1) Has been duly approved and adopted by the employer’s governing body in accordance with the requirements of applicable public meetings laws;
(2) Identifies the position title for every employee position;
(3) Shows the pay rate for each identified position, which may be stated as a single amount or as multiple amounts within a range;
(4) Indicates the time base, including, but not limited to, whether the time base is hourly, daily, biweekly, monthly, bimonthly, or annually;
(5) Is posted at the office of the employer or immediately accessible and available for public review from the employer during normal business hours or posted on the employer’s internet website;
(6) Indicates an effective date and date of revisions;
(7) Is retained by the employer and available for public inspection for not less than five years; and
(8) Does not reference another document in lieu of disclosing the pay rate.
CalPERS has stressed that all eight of these requirements must be met in a single salary schedule for each member’s pay.
Salary Range Adjustments
1. Classified Employees
Valley Water has negotiated salary increases for classified employees covered by the three labor MOUs. Specifically, the bargaining groups, the Employees Association, the Engineers Society, and the Professional Managers Association, have negotiated a four-year contract that provides salary increases through 2029. Based on the new MOU, approval is requested to increase the salary schedule by 4.5%, effective at the beginning of pay period 14 from 2026. The attached Salary Schedule updates and makes the current 2026 salaries for employees represented by the three bargaining groups.
2. Unclassified Employees/BAOs
The attached salary schedule also reflects updated salary ranges for Executive employees and Board Appointed Officers (BAOs) by the same percentage as classified employees. There are no automatic salary increases due to the updated salary ranges; any individual salary changes would follow the pay-for-performance process for Unrepresented Employees.
The Board establishes any changes to the salaries of the BAOs through separate action and amendments of their respective employment contracts.
The Resolution and salary schedule are included with this agenda memo.
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IMPACT:
There are no Environmental Justice impacts associated with this item.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
The estimated cost of this increase for all staff is approximately $6,512,743.04.
CEQA:
The recommended action does not constitute a project under CEQA because it does not have the potential for resulting in direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment.
ATTACHMENTS:
Attachment 1: Resolution
UNCLASSIFIED MANAGER: Manager
Patrice McElroy, 408-630-3159