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Amherst finance committee sends ordinance to set income tax clerk pay to council, adds emergency clause
Summary
On April 14, 2025, the Amherst Finance Committee voted 5-0 to forward an ordinance to the full council that would establish wages and benefits for an income tax office clerk and include an emergency clause to make the change immediate if approved.
AMHERST — The Amherst Finance Committee voted 5-0 on April 14, 2025, to send an ordinance to the full Town Council that would establish wages and benefits for an income tax office clerk and carry an emergency clause intended to make the change effective immediately if the council approves it.
Committee members took up a single substantive item on the agenda: adding the income tax office clerk position to the town’s nonbargaining wage ordinance and specifying pay and benefits. An unnamed council member explained that when the tax secretary position was negotiated out of the union, the salary and benefits information for that role existed only inside union contracts. “The only place that tax clerk or tax secretary's wages and benefits was described was within the union contracts,”…
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