Officials approve pay increase for employee "Tanner" after closed-session discussion

Bryce Canyon City officials approved a pay increase for an employee referred to in the transcript as Tanner after a closed executive-session personnel discussion.

An unidentified speaker (Speaker 3) moved to increase Tanner’s hourly pay and said the city would revisit the employee’s compensation at the next evaluation. "We feel like you've done the things we asked you to do to to justify the raise," Speaker 3 said, citing work such as facilities management and duties the city had been paying contractors to perform.

Speaker 2 recorded the motion and vote: "So Gary made a motion to close our executive session and Cam seconded it, and all were in favor," and later summarized the pay vote as "Motion by Gary, second by Mike," after which members answered "Aye." The transcript does not record any "no" or abstention votes.

The transcript records that the raise is to be effective Oct. 1. The exact amount of the increase is unclear in the transcript: the motion is recorded in garbled phrasing as "increase 10 or $3 an hour right now to," and speakers thereafter do not restate a definitive dollar figure. The council indicated it would revisit Tanner’s evaluation in December.

The raise and the prior motion to close the executive session were handled in the closed portion of the meeting; the transcript contains limited on-the-record detail about the personnel discussion beyond the motion and the vote. The meeting concluded after repeated motions to adjourn.

What happened next: the body approved the raise motion and then moved to adjourn; the transcript ends with repeated "Motion to adjourn" lines and no further agenda items recorded.