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Council approves paid employee leave for Dec. 26, 2025 and Jan. 2, 2026 amid tight budget
Summary
With no budget room for raises, the council approved closing town offices on Dec. 26, 2025 and Jan. 2, 2026 and granting full-time employees eight paid hours (four hours for part-time) to be used by the end of the fiscal year; employees required to work those dates for essential services may take an alternate day off with supervisor approval.
Pinetop Lakeside — The Town Council unanimously approved closing town offices on Friday, Dec. 26, 2025 and Friday, Jan. 2, 2026 and granted paid time off for town employees as a non-monetary appreciation measure.
Staff presented the option after telling the council the budget does not allow raises or the usual employee-appreciation events. Interim Town Manager Christy Salsco said the town would close offices on those days and that employees who must work—because of snow removal, emergency response or other essential services—would be allowed to take another day off with supervisory approval.
Councilor Deheisler proposed also closing Jan. 2 and offering eight hours of paid time off to full-time employees (four hours to part-time employees) so the benefit would be equitable across differing shift schedules. The town’s accounting/HR representative recommended granting 8 hours to full-time staff and 4 hours to part-time staff to standardize the benefit.
A motion to close those two days and grant the additional leave, with the condition that the leave be used by the end of the fiscal year (June 30, 2026), carried unanimously.
The motion included a provision that employees required to work those days will be granted an alternate paid day off with supervisor approval; town officials said emergency coverage procedures will remain in place for public safety and snow operations.
Details not specified during the meeting: estimated fiscal cost of granting the leave and any department-level coverage plans beyond the general substitute-day provision.
