3/22/12 – Dodge County isn’t the only area governmental body that will be performing a compensation and payroll study for its employees. On the same night the county board approved hiring an outside firm to put together a study so did the Watertown City Council. For a cost of about $33,000 plus expenses the city is asking Springstead Inc. to evaluate most its departments. Like it is for the county, the state laws passed last year that virtual ended a version of collective bargaining with public employee unions is driving the study. Most of the unions that represented employees in the city didn’t recertify, meaning there is no one to negotiate with. The study is expected to take four to five months.
