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The questionnaire asked what specific benefits and amounts, under each key benefit, do Fulltime Non-sworn employees receive; what additional or different benefits do Exempt & Department Head/Sr. Mgmt employees receive; and, how are their sworn employees treated differently. The methodology for the analysis was relatively straightforward: after sending/receiving back the benefits questionnaire from each benchmark city, a spreadsheet was created for each benefit queried and a comparative analysis done (Attachment 2). Also provided for your review are examples of what benefits a typical fulltime general employee and a typical department head with over one year of municipal service, over five years of municipal service, and over fifteen years of municipal service receive in the benchmark cities receive as compared to their counterparts in the City of Sunny Isles Beach (SIB). The results, in general, indicate that SIB employees receive benefits that are competitive with those offered by the benchmark cities. SIB is not the sole leader in anyone benefit in which it offers the most or the most costly benefit, rather there are one or more other cities that also provide the same level benefit or more, i.e., SIB with Bal Harbour have a maximum vacation accrual amount of 25 days when most benchmark cities provide 20 days maximum accrual. In contrast, there are a few benefits in which SIB is not as competitive as the other cities, i.e., SIB has an annual cap of $1500 for tuition reimbursement and several benchmark cities have no maximum amount which could result in a tuition reimbursement benefit of over $10,000 depending what college is attended, etc. However, we recommend the following changes in our current benefits in order to bring us more in line with our benchmark cities: . For all current and new-hire general employees and exempt/department head employees (excluding sworn officers), discontinue the 25 days vacation accrual benefit. . For all current general employees and exempt/ department head employees, continue to allow the 20 days vacation accrual benefit as is which provides for the accrual of 20 days vacation commencing in the 11 th year of service for a maximum benefit accrual of 20 days. · For all new-hire general employees and exempt/department head employees (excluding sworn officers)" allow accrual of only one additional day per year of service commencing in the 11 th year of service for a maximum benefit accrual of 20 days. · For sworn employees, as promised, initiate a review of all benefits in two years (2010). · For all new-hire exempt/ department head employees, eliminate the 3 additional floating holidays which are currently provided after 5 years of service. The maximum benefit provided will be 7 days (5 days for the position and the 2 days that all employees receive). We hope this information is satisfactory and meets your requirements. Also, we would be happy to meet with you and members of the City Commission to present the information and answer any questions you might have.