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Brentwood Select Board debates pay-scale step plan and townwide COLA policy
Summary
Select Board members discussed a draft five-level step pay scale for police and fire, and a community proposal to adopt an annual COLA tied to the Social Security adjustment; no formal adoption occurred and the board signaled the item would be considered as a warrant article for town meeting.
Select Board members considered a draft pay-scale matrix for police and fire and a proposed townwide cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) policy during the meeting, but did not adopt either plan.
The draft, circulated to the board and prepared after meetings with department chiefs, lays out years-of-service steps on one axis and certification levels on the other and includes a predetermined COLA that would be added to a step-0 employee and then populate the matrix. The presenter described the document as “very much a draft and an initial document, and in no way set in any sort of stone.”
Board members and members of the public raised questions about merit, budget constraints and the scope of the proposal. One Select Board member said the…
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