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Council members debate COLA, public-safety pay and temporary trash-billing subsidy while weighing CIP cuts
Summary
Council members and staff discussed offering cost-of-living raises, adjusting the public-safety pay scale, possible cuts to the capital improvement program to offset costs, and a temporary plan to cover added trash-billing fees during a transition away from Republic Services; no formal motions or votes were recorded.
Council members and staff discussed a package of employee pay adjustments, potential cuts to the city’s Capital Improvement Program (CIP) and a temporary subsidy to cover added trash-billing fees while the city transitions to a third-party billing arrangement.
At the meeting, a council member summarized pay proposals: “We did offer COLA raises, I believe, for the general pay scale. And then for the public safety, they received … COLA,” and later referred to a roughly “3.1 something, 4 or 5” figure for the public-safety pay-scale increase. The speaker framed those raises as part of broader budget-balancing conversations.
The discussion included an option to reduce the CIP budget for the year to help offset the cost of pay increases. The council member said that two vehicles for the fire department…
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