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Council flags emergency-manager salary line misplaced in police budget; staff to verify state funding and legal limits
Summary
Council members identified a personnel-line error that placed a $118,000 emergency-manager salary in the police personnel page; the emergency manager is budgeted separately at about $75,000. Council asked staff for payroll records, a legal opinion and confirmation of state emergency funding.
Council members and budget staff identified a discrepancy in personnel pages where an emergency-manager salary appeared in the police personnel sheet instead of the emergency management fund. City staff said the figure on the personnel sheet inflated the police salaries by about $118,000 but that the emergency management fund shows a separate salary line at roughly $75,000.
The chair directed staff to correct the personnel page and asked for payroll and payment records related to the emergency manager over the past year. "On page 11, line number 4, emergency manager, that was mistakenly put in this budget. There is a separate budget for the emergency manager department. So that, will reduce expenditures in this budget by a hundred 18 thousand for the…
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