North Haledon council adopts 2025 salary ordinance setting pay bands for police, dispatchers and DPW

The Borough of North Haledon adopted Ordinance #1-2025 on Feb. 19, 2025, approving the 2025 salary schedule for municipal officers and employees effective Jan. 1, 2025. The measure, adopted on its second reading, establishes detailed pay bands for police officers and supervisory ranks, dispatcher steps, public works mechanics and education allowances.

Mayor Randy George and the governing body adopted the ordinance after the Clerk read the title and the council waived a full reading. Council Member Donna Puglisi moved for adoption; Council Member George Pomianek seconded, and the motion carried on a roll-call vote in favor by the council.

The ordinance lists separate salary scales for police hired before Jan. 1, 2016 and for those hired on or after that date. Examples in the ordinance include multiple police tiers and EMT-training differentials: lieutenant salaries are listed at $173,585 (with an EMT-trained lieutenant at $182,950) and captain salaries listed up to $197,011 for 20+ years plus EMT training. Detective pay and a Police Education Allowance are specified (AA $1,500; BA $3,000; MA $5,000; Detective $4,245). Dispatcher step pay ranges and Department of Public Works mechanic salary steps are also enumerated in the ordinance.

Section 2 of the ordinance ties manner-of-payment and longevity benefits to Chapter 20 of the Borough Code and to contractual agreements; Section 3 states the ordinance takes effect immediately upon final passage and publication as required by law.

The salary ordinance provides the explicit pay bands that will guide payroll and budget planning for 2025. It does not, in the text adopted at the meeting, summarize year-over-year increases or compare the bands to prior years. The Clerk was directed to publish the ordinance notice following adoption.

The council opened the public hearing on the ordinance; no members of the public spoke.