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Scranton council approves salary increases, no-parking zones and other measures
Summary
On Jan. 28 the Scranton City Council adopted measures raising elected officials' pay, established no-parking zones on Cedar Avenue, extended an animal-shelter lease and approved a tax-collector pay increase; council also introduced an easement ordinance for the Meadowbrook flood project.
The Scranton City Council on Tuesday approved a package of ordinances that includes raises for elected officials, a no-parking ordinance for part of Cedar Avenue and a pay increase for the city’s tax collector, and it introduced an ordinance to acquire easements for the Meadowbrook flood-protection project.
The council voted to raise the mayor’s salary to $95,000 and to increase each council member’s annual salary to $18,000, changes scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, 2026. The council also approved increasing the tax collector’s salary to $72,000, effective Jan. 1, 2026. The body adopted a no-parking ordinance to bring the easterly and westerly sides of the 3400 blocks of Cedar Avenue into compliance with PennDOT sight-distance specifications, and it extended the lease with Street Cats and Dogs Inc. for the Ash Street firehouse property for 12 months.
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