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Council directs staff to present employee pay option with 5% and $8.25 adjustment, no tax-rate increase
Summary
After a staff presentation of four budget options, the Longview City Council instructed staff to bring Option 2 to next week's vote: a 5% salary increase plus an $8.25-per-hour equivalent flat adjustment for employees on payroll as of Sept. 21, implemented without raising the current tax rate.
City staff presented four budget options on Aug. 14 that would finance employee pay changes without increasing the city's current property tax rate; council members discussed which option would most help lower-wage workers and by consensus directed staff to return next week with Option 2.
Roland McPhee, the staff budget presenter, told council that the options cost the same overall but distribute pay differently. "The state places limitations on tax revenues without compensating cities and counties for those losses or exemptions," McPhee…
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