Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. By December 15, 2024, present a comprehensive data-driven report with at least three options for potential corrective actions to address any issues by the General Assembly to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue; 2. The comprehensive data driven report with options for potential corrective actions shall include and contain the following items at a minimum: a. The report shall provide data driven detail on each of the types of personnel actions and salary establishment practices or salary increase practices that caused the issues and the consultants’ recommendations of potential corrective options to address the issues; b. The report shall include a review of the practice of employing individuals up to the midpoint of the salary schedule, allowing individuals to resign and then be reappointed at a higher salary, and the compression of the salary difference that exist in employee salaries when a special entrance rate is established for a classification and all employees in the classification are raised to the same new entrance salary; c. The review shall include all other types of salary increases and practices that have been utilized by the Executive Branch to increase the salary of employees including locality pay; d. The report shall include any other personnel practice or policy that is identified by the data to have contributed to the salary compression issues of the Executive Branch; e. The report shall also make recommendations on all potential changes to the current administrative regulations and/or KRS Chapter 18A to prevent the type of personnel actions or practices that have caused salary compression; and f. The report shall also contain all other recommendations the consultant feels are appropriate to prevent salary compression in the future. 3. Submit requests for records or information in a manner and time agreed upon by the Personnel Cabinet and the consultant; 4. Submit a plan of action/review to the Personnel Cabinet so that the Cabinet may arrange any consultant requested information exchange; 5. Contact, consult with, and obtain information/records from those agencies for which the Personnel Cabinet does not provide Human Resource services