Staff says $25 minimum for commissioner pay would require a resolution; budget motion made but outcome not recorded

A staff member said during a Chester County budget meeting that changing commissioner pay to a minimum of $25 would require the board to pass a formal resolution, and the group discussed changes to commissioner and committee budgets before a motion to approve the budget was made and seconded but no recorded vote appears in the transcript.

The issue arose during a review of budget adjustments. "You will have to pass a resolution in order to make that possible," the staff member said about reducing commissioner pay to the $25 minimum. The staff member also described broader changes: "we were able to put the commissioner budget, enhanced, and then the budget committee, maybe it was cut down as well."

The remarks mattered because they tied an intended pay-change to a formal legal step — a resolution — that the transcript shows must precede implementation. The staff member framed the $25 figure as the minimum and said commissioners had discussed the change among themselves.

Meeting discussion also included criticism of a vendor identified as MCC. A staff member said, "I don't love MCC. I'm not gonna pretend to be an advocate for MCC. There's a I get very frustrated with them. But what I will say is they are owned all the way... they have, like, a flat $150 fee, for a service call." That comment was presented as staff frustration with MCC's service model and fee structure; the transcript does not show any formal action about MCC's contract or fees during this segment.

Procedural steps were proposed on the record. Earlier in the meeting a presiding official asked for a motion to approve minutes from the last budget meeting. Later, another presiding official asked, "I'd like to entertain a motion to approve the budget as we've talked about tonight," and the transcript records that a motion and a second were made. The transcript does not record the vote tally or whether the motion passed.

Discussion versus decision: the transcript shows staff explanations and requests for motions (direction to consider and to act), but it does not show a completed formal decision on changing commissioner pay or an approved amendment to MCC's fees. The only explicit formal step referenced by staff for the pay change was the need to pass a resolution before the $25 minimum could take effect.

Less-critical details from the meeting: the staff member offered to answer further questions about the budget; the meeting included other short exchanges about estimates and services, but those were not developed into formal motions in the recorded text.

The record does not specify a timeline for drafting or bringing a resolution back to the governing body, nor does it specify which committee (if any) would prepare that resolution. It also does not provide a dollar figure for the overall budget changes beyond the references to commissioner pay and the vendor service fee.