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Broken Bow council adopts Ordinance No. 1247 correcting police pay clerical error
Summary
The Broken Bow City Council unanimously adopted Ordinance No. 1247 on Sept. 28, 2021, correcting a clerical error that had flipped Police Department wages. The council suspended the three‑reading requirement and voted for immediate final passage.
Broken Bow — At its Sept. 28, 2021, meeting the Broken Bow City Council unanimously adopted Ordinance No. 1247, a revision to the 2021–2022 wage ordinance that the city said corrects a clerical error in Police Department wages.
Councilmember Larry Miller introduced Ordinance No. 1247 and moved to suspend the statutory rule requiring reading on three different days; Councilmember Jacob Holcomb seconded and the roll call vote to suspend the rule was unanimous. Miller then moved for final passage of the ordinance; Councilmember David Schmidt seconded. Upon roll call, the vote to adopt was recorded as Ayes: Chris Myers, Jacob Holcomb, David Schmidt and Larry Miller; Nays: none. Mayor Rod Sonnichsen signed the ordinance and the city clerk attested to passage.
City Administrator Dan Knoell told the council the correction was needed because Police Department wages had been “flipped” by a clerical error in the wage schedule. The ordinance title entered on the record reads: "AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BROKEN BOW, NEBRASKA, REGARDING THE SALARIES OF OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES; PAY PLAN FOR ALL CLASSIFICATIONS WITHIN THE CITY; AND MONTHLY SALARY OR HOURLY WAGE RANGES FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL CLASSIFICATION." The council’s action adopted the corrected pay ranges as presented at the meeting.
The ordinance was adopted by a majority of the council in a single meeting after the council suspended the statutory three‑reading requirement. The clerk’s attestation appears in the official meeting record.
The council took no separate public vote authorizing retroactive pay adjustments or other implementation steps in the text of the minutes; any follow‑up administrative steps were not specified in the meeting record.
