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Mount Vernon Board adopts 2025 salary resolutions for city employees
Summary
The Board of Estimate and Contract adopted the city's 2025 salary resolutions covering 14 employee categories, with elected officials' pay unchanged, and officials said collective-bargaining talks and potential retroactive pay remain ongoing.
The Board of Estimate and Contract of Mount Vernon adopted the city's 2025 salary resolutions on Jan. 7, approving pay scales for 14 employee categories while leaving elected officials' salaries unchanged.
A staff member read titles for 14 categories that the board adopted as a single block, covering classifications that include classified employees (CSCA), various CSEA supervisory and miscellaneous positions, school crossing guards, all departments under CSEA, Board of Water Supply superintendents and office staff, Local 456 positions for the city and the Board of Water Supply, and fire and police department uniform and deputy chief ranks.
The resolutions set the city's minimum and maximum ranges for those categories. Board members noted that most salaries remained flat for 2025, with changes limited to newly added positions and mandatory step increases. A staff speaker said additions included positions required by state direction for the building department and items arising from the CGR report.
Board members discussed the status of labor negotiations during the meeting. Officials said negotiations with the fire union were in the final stages and that talks with the police department had begun; negotiations with Local 456 and CSCA were planned. One official said the city aims to align contract cycles so unions are on a similar multi-year schedule: a six-year cycle proposed for fire and a four-year cycle for other unions. The board discussed that aligning cycles could produce retroactive payments; officials listed possible retro pay periods for fire covering prior years and for other unions once contract years are determined.
The board took the resolutions as a block after the titles were read. A motion to adopt the salary resolutions passed on roll call, with members present voting in the affirmative. The board recorded that elected salaries will remain the same; no change to those salaries was presented or approved at the meeting.
There was no other substantive business. The board adjourned after adopting the salary resolutions.
Ending: The board's action sets salary ranges used for 2025 payroll and for ongoing collective-bargaining discussions; officials said they will return to finalize labor agreements and any resulting retroactive payments to employees.
