Phenix City council approves pay for city clerk, staff for absentee ballot duties ahead of August municipal election

The Phenix City Council approved a resolution setting compensation for absentee ballot duties for the upcoming municipal and school election scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025. The resolution directs that the city clerk be compensated $60 per day and employees of the city clerk’s office and the city manager’s office be compensated $35 per day per person for performance of duties related to absentee ballots on election day and during the 35-day period prior to the election. The expenditures are to be paid from the city treasury. City staff read the resolution into the record and the council adopted the language; the resolution text records that it was approved and adopted in July 2025. The measure applies to the regular municipal election and the school election to be held on Aug. 26, 2025. Meeting discussion did not record a roll-call with individual yes/no votes in the excerpted transcript, but the resolution text indicates council approval. The compensation establishes a daily pay rate for employees performing absentee ballot duties during the 35-day early voting/absentee period and on election day.