We’re excited to welcome the City of Glendale, California to Holly, partnering to bring clarity, consistency, and defensibility to its classification and compensation work. Glendale, one of the largest and most innovative cities in the Los Angeles metro, is taking a thoughtful step to modernize how it manages a complex workforce—about 1,100 employees across more than 800 classifications serving roughly 200,000 residents.

From our first conversations this fall, Chief Human Resources Officer Paula Adams, an award-winning leader with service in PSHRA’s Southern California Chapter and the Western Region, saw a clear path beyond manual data gathering and fragmented workflows. Her vision was straightforward: leverage AI-native analysis so her team can spend more time on strategic decisions and stakeholder conversations, and less on clerical tasks.

Paula shared,

“The City of Glendale chose Holly because we needed a platform that brings clarity, consistency, and defensibility to our class and compensation work. With hundreds of classifications and years worth of projects to deliver, it was time to modernize and leverage AI to make accurate decisions, faster. Holly will bring us objective market data, internal equity insights, and an intuitive way to produce recommendations to our leadership and partners”.

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Holly will support Glendale’s team by:

• Automating market benchmarking across peer agencies, providing transparent job-to-job match scores and current medians
• Surfacing internal equity insights and recommending thoughtful consolidations or reclassifications that prioritize filled classifications that support incumbents
• Streamlining specification updates with AI-assisted rewrites, redlines, and meeting-friendly workflows for productive meet-and-confers and commission review
• Refreshing market data quarterly so briefings and decisions stay grounded in current, defensible numbers year-round.

We’re grateful for Glendale’s partnership and the trust Paula and her team have placed in Holly, and we look forward to sharing the impact of this work as the initiative moves forward.