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Storefront Improvement Program

The Benbrook Economic Development Corporation (BEDC) promotes a diverse and vital economy by attracting new
businesses, retaining and supporting existing businesses, facilitating desired development, and promoting Benbrook
to new residents and visitors. In support of existing businesses, with preference to those located along the Benbrook
Boulevard/US Highway 377 highway corridor, and to enhance the overall physical appearance and commercial appeal
of Benbrook, the BEDC offers a matching fund reimbursement grant, the Storefront Improvement Program, to eligible
businesses that wish to improve building facades or other exterior features of existing commercial buildings. The
Storefront Improvement Program offers a fifty percent matching grant, not to exceed $20,000, for costs associated with
approved eligible improvements.

TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF GOVERNMENT SERVICES

Benbrook's government operates more efficiently and effectively through the implementation of enhanced employee
benefits, updated technology and equipment, consolidation of services, and identification of special revenue sources.

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS ENHANCEMENTS

The City strives to keep employee turnover at a minimum and succeeds by being competitive with salary and benefits
for new hires and for current employees. The City operates with the philosophy of recruiting highly-qualified and top-
quality employees by offering above-average salaries and competitive benefits and of retaining employees through
the provision of merit increases, promotional opportunities, stability/longevity pay, and an excellent retirement system
with five-year vesting and retirement eligibility after twenty years of service.

The 2018-19 Budget includes funds to finance a two and one-half percent across-the-board salary adjustment to the
City’s Classification and Compensation Matrix.

In the summer of 2009, an outside consultant completed an analysis and study of the City’s classification and
compensation system for full-time positions. The consultant recommended re-structuring the City’s Classification and
Compensation Matrix to a fifty grade and seven-step matrix with a five-percent increase for each grade and between
each step. The grades range from twenty-two to forty-nine; the City Manager’s salary is at grade forty-nine and Field
Service Worker is assigned to grade twenty-two. Employees at steps one through six of the City's seven-step
classification and compensation system are eligible to receive a one-step or five percent increase for merit on the

CITY OF BENBROOK 2018-19 ANNUAL BUDGET
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