The Mabel Common Council on Oct. not specified approved hourly rates, annual salaries and supplemental pay for the incoming emergency medical services director and the incoming assistant EMS director.

Council members voted to set the EMS director’s rate at $33.35 per hour, listed in the meeting as $69,368 annually, and to provide a $5,000 hiring bonus plus a $5,000 annual stipend. The council also approved the assistant EMS director’s rate at $28.40 per hour, listed in the meeting as $60,002.57 annually, with the same $5,000 hiring bonus and $5,000 annual stipend.

Councilmember Julie moved to approve the director’s pay package; the motion was seconded and carried. A separate motion to adopt the assistant director’s package was introduced and carried in a subsequent vote. The minutes record unanimous “aye” votes on both motions. No recorded amendments or conditions were attached to either motion.

Discussion in the meeting was procedural: staff repeated the salary, bonus and stipend figures for the minutes before votes were taken. The meeting record indicates the salaries were first presented by staff and then approved by motion.

The actions are formal council approvals of pay rates; the council did not record additional directions to staff about recruitment steps, probationary periods, or benefit changes during the recorded discussion.