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Budget committee splits on wage‑matrix implementation; sets $30,000 contingency and raises town clerk salary to $104,000
Summary
After a lengthy debate over the town’s wage matrix and how to handle employees whose duties do not match job titles, the Kingston Budget Committee approved a $30,000 contingency for town‑hall and public‑works salary adjustments and voted to raise the town clerk/tax collector’s 2025 salary to $104,000 (inclusive of COLA).
The Kingston Budget Committee spent more than an hour Wednesday debating how to implement a multi‑department wage matrix and how to remedy widely divergent salaries across town government. Committee members voted to set aside $30,000 in contingency funds to address salary adjustments for town‑hall and public‑works employees and approved a separate motion to raise the town clerk/tax collector’s 2025 salary to $104,000 (that number was adopted as the committee’s recommendation and was stated as inclusive of the already budgeted COLA).
Town clerk Tammy told the…
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