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Versailles approves 3.5% hourly wage increase and reviews infrastructure reports
Summary
After an executive session on compensation and property, the council approved a 3.5% increase for the 2025 hourly compensation program and heard administrative reports on EMS staffing, utility projects, land purchases for substations, and other operations.
The Versailles Village Council entered executive session at 7:37 p.m. to consider public employee hourly and salary compensation for 2025 and the sale of land no longer needed for municipal purpose, then returned at 8:16 p.m. After the executive session the council approved a 3.5% increase for the 2025 Hourly Compensation Program, to take effect Jan. 5, 2025, and instructed staff to prepare legislation.
Mayor Todd M. Dammeyer reported that he, Fire/EMS Chief Pearson, Village Administrator Francis and Fiscal Officer Kathy Ording met to review EMS staffing and finances and that additional meetings will be held to review 2025 revenue and expenditures.
Village Administrator Francis distributed an administrative report covering multiple operational items: seasonal banner and American flag work, curb and sidewalk replacements on S. Center St. and associated parking gains, programming and setpoint updates at the substation by GPD Group to reduce multi‑circuit outages, ongoing AMI meter installations in outlying areas, new street light pole foundations at Stone Ridge, and an electric service request from Weaver Bros. that required authorization of a 1000 kVA padmount transformer (approved earlier in the meeting). Francis also reported street and wastewater staff completed a foundation and slab at Ward Park for a shade canopy and that the Village closed on 4.274 acres off Marker Rd. for future infrastructure (a fourth electric substation and third water tower). Earlier in 2024 the village purchased 1.537 acres off McGreevey Rd. for a third electrical substation; design on that substation is planned to start in the first half of 2025.
Francis noted other operational items: submission of the Tree City USA application, cemetery mapping and planned columbarium installation, a proposed $8,000 contract with Clemans‑Nelson for personnel and EMS organizational review, a delivery delay for a new bucket truck (now expected fall 2025), and interest in a Darke County mosquito‑fogging state grant to reduce village expense (2024 fogging cost $2,250 for five applications).
