Committee reviews pay‑plan amendment for land‑use licensing positions

The New Castle County Administrative Finance Committee discussed Ordinance 24‑179 on Jan. 14, 2025, a proposal to amend pay plans and rates for classified 35‑hour employees represented by Delaware Public Employees Council 81, AFL‑CIO (Local 1607) and to adopt and amend class specifications for land‑use licensing positions.

Committee members said the proposal was reviewed by the county’s Human Resources Advisory Board and the acting chief of human resources. “I appreciate that it did go to the human resources advisory board and, as well to the acting chief of human resources for this approval,” Councilman Toole said during the meeting.

Council President Williams Johns was assigned as the lead for discussion and management of pay‑plan amendments; members asked no further substantive questions during the committee discussion. The transcript does not record a committee vote on Ordinance 24‑179 during the Jan. 14 meeting.

The ordinance, as introduced, would affect land‑use licensing and related job classifications; the committee did not add conditions or amendments in the recorded discussion and deferred further handling to the council president as chair for follow‑up.