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Montgomery Board of Health adopts retroactive $115,000 salary for health officer
Summary
The Montgomery Township Board of Health on Jan. 8 approved Resolution 2025-10 to set the health officer's 2024 annual salary at $115,000, retroactive to Jan. 1, 2024; members said a separate 2025 resolution and a township salary ordinance for nonunion staff will follow.
The Montgomery Township Board of Health on Jan. 8 approved Resolution 2025-10 to establish the health officer’s 2024 annual salary at $115,000, retroactive to Jan. 1, 2024.
The chair introduced the corrective resolution as a response to an omission during a township committee action earlier in the year. “So whereas the Montgomery Township Board of Health of the Montgomery Township, Somerset County desires to set the … the 2024 annual salary for the position of the health officer for 2025 is established at a $115,000 effective last January 2024, 01/01/2024,” the chair stated when reading the resolution text to the board.
Board members clarified the measure corrects the prior record and noted the board will still need to adopt a separate 2025 resolution and the township must pass a salary ordinance covering nonunion employees. A member asked whether the $115,000 figure applies beyond the retroactive change; the chair and other members said this action corrects 2024 and that a distinct 2025 action would be brought forward in the next two months.
Members also discussed a statutory timeline that requires the health officer’s salary to reach the top of its range by the fifth year in the position; the chair said, at the current trajectory, a large correction may be required by Oct. 1, 2026, if pay is not phased upward sooner. The board agreed to pursue a 2025 resolution and to coordinate with township finance and management on an ordinance covering nonunion department chairs.
A motion to approve the resolution was made and seconded; the chair called the vote and the measure was adopted. The board did not state a formal roll-call tally in a single numeric line in the record provided, but multiple members answered affirmatively when polled.
What’s next: board members said they expect a 2025 resolution within the coming months and a salary ordinance to address nonunion positions. The chair asked members to review the township’s January 2 public record that contains the other department chair salaries and ranges to prepare for a fuller discussion on 2025 compensation.
