The Village Council of East Canton discussed an ordinance to increase Village Administrator Henry Boyle’s base salary and add a monthly stipend for zoning duties, with council members asking staff to clarify timing and funding before final approval.

The ordinance under consideration would raise Boyle’s annual base salary by 10% to $72,000 and add $500 per month ($6,000 per year) for zoning-inspector responsibilities; the text read in the meeting set the effective payroll period as beginning in November 2025 but council members asked staff to confirm the precise effective date and payroll mechanics.

Councilors pressed for clarity on how the increase would be charged across funds. During discussion a staff speaker described an earlier proposal to split $66,000 between the water and service funds using the village’s usual 50/50 allocation and to cover the $6,000 zoning stipend from the general fund; councilors asked that such splits be explicitly set in the ordinance or reflected in accompanying fiscal notes.

Members also debated the ordinance’s timing and readings. Several councilors said they were willing to approve a title-only first reading at this meeting and return with amended language for the second and third readings at the next meeting so the effective date could match a pay period. Council discussion noted a pending pre-employment drug test for a separate hire and raised the possibility of specifying an effective date that would give the new hire certainty while remaining administratively practical.

The ordinance was presented for first reading and councilors directed staff to prepare finalized language for the next meeting, including a clear effective date and any fund-allocation language. The clerk and fiscal staff were asked to provide the auditor-ready appropriation language and to confirm retirement and payroll-period implications.

No final adoption of the ordinance was recorded in the transcript for this meeting; councilors agreed to return the item for final readings at the next regular meeting once staff prepared amended verbiage and fiscal clarifications.