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Eagle Pass MPO board authorizes staff compensation changes after closed session
Summary
After an executive session, the Eagle Pass MPO Transportation Policy Board voted to make the MPO fully responsible for specific staff compensation items, approving a $35,000-plus-fringe payment retroactive to October for the planning director and setting an administrative assistant rate of $21 per hour.
The Eagle Pass Metropolitan Planning Organization Transportation Policy Board returned from executive session Feb. 12 and approved compensation and staffing clarifications that make the MPO fully responsible for specified personnel costs.
According to the motion recorded after executive session, the MPO will provide an additional $35,000 plus fringe benefits to cover MPO administrative responsibilities for the planning director; the payment is retroactive to the director's October hiring date. The board also directed elimination of a separate planner position budgeted to the MPO and set the full-time administrative assistant's rate at $21 per hour. Board members clarified the MPO — not the City of Eagle Pass — will cover the additional $35,000 plus fringe and the administrative assistant's pay (the transcript explicitly notes there will be no 50/50 split with the city).
MPO legal counsel and staff confirmed those instructions in open session before the board voted on the motion. The board voted unanimously to carry out the staffing and compensation measures; the transcript records the vote as unanimous but does not provide a roll-call vote tally.
The action directs staff to implement the compensation adjustments and administrative staffing changes and to reflect the clarified funding responsibilities in MPO budgets and payroll.
