Huntington Beach city council is set to determine if it will spend $175,000 for a consultant to perform a “classification and compensation” study. The plan seeks to organize all of the city’s job descriptions into logical categories that would enable Huntington Beach to have a fair and effective merit-based employment system, according to a recent staff report. Council will vote on the item during its March 15 meeting. The city’s most recent classification report was completed in 2006. There has been considerable drift in the job environment since then regarding job titles, descriptions, compensation, and more, said Councilmember Mike Posey. “What we don’t know is: As jobs, titles, descriptions, and duties evolve and change, do [they] match the evolving landscape and best practices of our other cities that are employing the same kind of people?” Posey told The Epoch Times. “The idea is that employees have matching job descriptions and duties so that we can have competitive salary landscape.” Asked if the …