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Oakwood council adopts personnel and organizational changes, including 3.75% pay increase for nonunion staff
Summary
Council approved a package of emergency ordinances to update the personnel pay schedule (3.75% increase for non-bargaining employees), establish an amended organization and staffing schedule, and update administrative code chapters to reflect the restructuring.
Oakwood City Council approved a set of emergency ordinances on Dec. 1 to update personnel pay, reorganize department functions and revise the administrative code.
Vice Mayor Byington introduced an ordinance repealing the prior personnel schedule and adopting an amended schedule dated 12/01/2025; the measure declared an emergency so it would take effect in the first pay period of 2026. The ordinance authorizes pay increases of 3.75% for all non‑bargaining‑unit employees in 2026, which Byington said aligns those increases with collective bargaining agreements covering union employees.
Byington also presented related emergency ordinances to amend the city’s organization and staffing schedule—significant changes were described as consolidating leisure-services functions within public works and authorizing contracted services for the swimming-pool and mowing operations—and to repeal and replace administrative-code chapters (including elimination of the former leisure services department and establishment of a personnel department led by a director rather than an HR manager).
Councilors asked no substantive questions during the meeting. Each ordinance was moved, seconded and approved on unanimous roll-call votes. The measures were adopted as emergency ordinances to ensure implementation in the coming pay and operational cycles.
Implementation: the city will proceed to update payroll schedules and administrative materials and to implement the organizational changes; the ordinances were presented as enabling staff to carry out the transitions described at the meeting.
