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Trustees direct staff to proceed with counterproposal on engineering rate increase; transcript uses multiple firm spellings
Summary
Trustee Clayton presented a negotiating team's counterproposal to the village's engineering firm (transcript includes multiple spellings of the firmname). Trustees signaled support to present the proposal, which uses 2024 as the base year and would limit increases in a way the board estimates would imply a roughly 4.7% increase and an approximate $403,000 total spend for the coming year; a detailed scope analysis is due mid‑March.
Trustee Clayton updated the board on negotiations with the village's engineering firm (the transcript uses several spellings, including "Goalt Hamilton," "Gault Hamilton" and "Gewalt"). He said civil engineering salaries are rising about 6–7% annually and that the firm updated its 2026 rate proposal to cap annual increases at 7.5% for five years using 2025 as the…
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