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Monona committee amends 2025 library salary budget after payroll omission
Summary
City staff told the committee a long-term library employee was omitted from the 2025 salary budget, prompting an amendment to increase library salaries and reduce contingency by about $22,000.
The City of Monona Finance and Personnel Committee approved an amendment to the 2025 operating budget to correct a salary omission in the library budget.
A staff member told the committee they were preparing multiple budgets and inadvertently omitted a long-term library employee’s salary. The staff member said, “I made a mistake. I was working on 3 budgets. 2 to 3 budgets were correct for the library salary, but the 1 related to the referendum passing. I, a permanent employee that was been there for years working was accidentally not including my son, so I was off like 22,000, dollars 250.”
Staff said the amendment would increase library salaries and reduce the contingency by the amount needed to cover the omission; the figure discussed in the meeting was presented as roughly $22,000 (the transcript includes both “22,000, dollars 250” and later references to reducing contingency by $22,000). The staff member said the city had been paying the employee and only recently discovered the error.
Committee members voted to approve the budget amendment. No new positions were created by the action, and staff described the change as a correction to pay an existing employee rather than an expansion of staff.
Committee members did not record additional conditions or follow-up tasks in the meeting record beyond the budget amendment.
