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Bloomington council reviews 2025 budget proposals as administration moves to implement citywide pay study
Summary
On Aug. 29 the Bloomington City Common Council heard departmental presentations on the 2025 budget, highlighting a planned $6 million implementation of a compensation regrade, a proposed homelessness coordinator in the mayor's office, Meridian fiber expansion and a CIB request for convention-center preconstruction costs.
Council members and city department heads met Aug. 29 in Bloomington City Hall for the fourth night of the 2025 budget hearings to review proposed spending priorities and key policy initiatives.
The administration's package centers on a multi-year push to implement a salary regrade identified in the city's compensation study (the CRO/Crow work), with roughly $6,000,000 set aside to cover implementation for 2025. Human Resources Director Shar Paycheck told the council the funds are intended to complete job classification changes and to phase in pay adjustments, and she said some implementation details…
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