Cridersville council adopts 2026 employee pay and benefits adjustments

The Village of Cridersville council unanimously adopted measures on Nov. 10, 2025 to adjust employee compensation and set pay and benefits for non-elected staff ahead of the 2026 calendar year.

Resolution 2523, described at the meeting as establishing employee compensation adjustments effective Jan. 1, 2026, passed on a 6-0 vote after a motion by Eric West and a second by Shaun Wenrick. The council also passed Ordinance #1719 — which amends Ordinances #1712 and #1715 — to establish rates of pay, health and hospitalization insurance, sick leave, paid holidays and vacation for all non-elected village employees for 2026; that ordinance passed 6-0 on a motion by Eric West and a second by Joe Bailey and was declared an emergency to take effect immediately.

Council members did not record extended debate on the floor during the recorded minutes. West, identified in the meeting as the village administrator, had reported earlier in committee that he had been in contact with the Allen County Engineer on other intergovernmental matters; no amendments to the compensation measures were recorded. The council took both votes during the Nov. 10 session and approved each measure by unanimous roll call.

The measures are recorded as effective immediately due to the emergency declarations; the minutes do not list individual new pay rates or dollar amounts in the record and those specifics were not stated in the meeting transcript provided.