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Select board debates replacing uniform service with $1,500 stipend for employees
Summary
Members discussed ending the town’s uniform-service contract after a 10% price increase and instead giving eligible employees a grossed-up stipend to cover uniforms, potentially saving about $9,000 against a $31,900 budgeted contract.
Board members debated whether to end the town’s uniform-service contract and instead provide a grossed-up uniform stipend to employees. A speaker describing the proposal said the town had budgeted $31,900 for the uniform service but that switching to a net $1,500 stipend for 12 employees, grossed up to about $1,900 to cover taxes, would cost approximately $22,800 and save about $9,000.
"If we gross up everybody's uniforms...it would come out to be about $1,900 per employee because we would pay the taxes on their behalf," the speaker said, describing a proposal intended to cover boots, jeans, T-shirts and sweatshirts and preserve safety-shoe requirements. Board members said they want a uniform policy that sets acceptable clothing and vendor/logo requirements to maintain a consistent public appearance and to meet insurance/safety constraints for boots.
Members asked staff to itemize the clothing allowance and to draft a policy that would control appearance, logos and safety requirements before any change is adopted. No formal vote to end the uniform-service contract was taken at the meeting; staff noted the existing contract has automatic-renewal language and a notice period for termination.
