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Scranton council approves business administrator as pension plans’ chief administrative officer amid dispute over retired firefighter seat
Summary
City Council voted to appoint the city’s business administrator as the chief administrative officer for the police, fire and nonuniform municipal pension plans to address a municipal pension audit finding; council members and union leaders pressed the administration to fill a long-vacant retired-firefighter seat on the pension board.
Scranton City Council on a roll-call vote adopted Resolution 179-2025 to designate the city’s business administrator as the chief administrative officer for the police, fire and nonuniform municipal pension plans, a change the administration says will resolve an audit finding in the municipal pension audit.
Council members and union representatives said the vote matters because auditors had flagged the absence of an administrative designee on pension oversight, and placing the business administrator on the board would eliminate that finding and bring the city into compliance. “This legislation came to us as a result of an audit finding in the Municipal Pension audit,” a council member said during discussion, adding that correcting the appointment would avoid an audit finding and the risk of losing funds.
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