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Stewartville council approves pay increases, adds paid fire department chief engineer and accepts $1.1 million state grant
Summary
The Stewartville City Council voted to add a paid chief engineer to the fire department, adopt ordinance changes to elected-official pay and meeting times, accept a $1.1 million DEED grant for industrial-park infrastructure and approve several routine contracts and hires.
The Stewartville City Council approved a package of personnel, compensation and funding actions during its regular meeting. Mayor Jimmy John King said the council would amend fire department bylaws to add a compensated chief engineer role responsible for apparatus maintenance and certification of engineers and drivers; council members voted to adopt the amendment with no budget increase, only an internal reallocation of funds.
The council also approved an ordinance amending Chapter 2 of the administration code to raise the mayor’s salary from $6,000 to $8,000 and to set council members’ pay at $10,000, with the changes slated to take effect Jan. 1, 2025. The ordinance also formalizes changing the council’s meeting start time from 7 p.m. to 6 p.m., after a trial earlier in the year.
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