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Council discusses cost-of-living adjustments and a $0.50 merit raise for one employee; no final vote recorded
Summary
The council considered cost-of-living adjustments for town employees and a motion to give a $0.50 merit raise to an employee identified as the lowest-paid outside the police department; the transcript records the motion and a second but does not show a recorded final vote in the excerpt.
The Mantua Town Council took up employee pay on its agenda, discussing a proposed cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) and a separate merit raise for a specific employee.
A motion was made and seconded to approve COLA raises for town employees "with the exception of Dakota and Kip and Castillo from the police department," according to the transcript exchanges. In a separate motion regarding a merit raise, a council member moved "that we give a merit raise of 50¢ to bring her closer to in line with our other she is the least, paid outside of the police department. And so to bring her"; another member seconded that motion.
The transcript includes the motions and a second for both the general COLA item and the $0.50 merit raise for the employee identified by first name in the discussion, but the excerpt does not record the final roll-call or tally for these personnel items.
Council discussion included procedural questions about whether the COLA and the merit raise should be handled together or separately; council members clarified they were to be considered together on the agenda and then discussed exceptions for specific police department employees.
Because the meeting transcript excerpt does not include the recorded vote on the personnel motions, this article reports the motions and the scope described by speakers but does not report a final outcome.
