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Council advances emergency wage and benefits ordinances for several city employee groups
Summary
The council introduced and, in several cases, passed emergency ordinances that set 3%–3.5% pay increases for city leadership and certain employee groups, and scheduled second readings where required. Staff said the city has 102 full‑time employees and most are covered by five unions.
The St. Marys City Council reviewed a package of emergency ordinances affecting wages and benefits for multiple city employees and positions, and took action on several of them during the meeting. City staff explained the rationale and scope of the measures and the council moved to adopt or advance the items.
City staff (speaker 6) told the council the city employs 102 full‑time workers and uses five union agreements to cover most of those positions, with a mix of collective bargaining and ordinance‑based pay for non‑bargained personnel. "The only change in the fire chief's [ordinance] is the wages and he will receive an increase of 3 and a half percent," the staff member said. Similar 3.5% increases were described for supervisory and non‑represented employees and for the police chief; a separate ordinance for non‑bargained clerical staff would include additional adjustments where needed.
Council introduced 'Ordinance 20 25 26' (fire chief and related fire department employees), 'Ordinance 20 25 27' (supervisory and non‑represented personnel), 'Ordinance 20 25 28' (police chief and certain police department positions), 'Ordinance 20 25 29' (director of public service and safety — a proposed 3% increase raising the salary from $111,413 to $114,755), and 'Ordinance 20 25 30' (dispatchers, reflecting a tentative agreement previously reviewed). Several of the measures were read and scheduled for second readings; those presented as emergency ordinances were advanced.
Where the council voted during the meeting, adoption was recorded by show of hands as 'all yeses' (the transcript does not provide a roll‑call tally of individual votes). The council also indicated it would return after executive session to vote formally on a tentative fire/EMS agreement that staff said had been ratified by EMS members.
What this means: The ordinances broadly increase pay and adjust titles/positions to align staffing with current operations; specifics for some measures (second readings, final vote counts) will be completed at subsequent meetings. The transcript does not provide the final text of each ordinance or the full vote record by member name for each measure.
