Commission approves 2025 longevity payout after split vote

Dec 15, 2025

The board voted 2–1 to pay the 2025 longevity bonus (minus an already paid Christmas bonus); Commissioners Morris and Mortimer voted aye and Commissioner Grund voted no following an executive-session request on individual employees.

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Commissioner Duane Morris said the previous commission intended to award longevity for 2025 and that the current board should honor that intent; Commissioner Scott Mortimer said he would stand by that prior statement. Commissioner Carla Grund asked that the board go into executive session to discuss individual employees and expressed reservations. After discussion the board moved to "pay out the longevity bonus minus the Christmas bonus that was already paid out." The motion passed 2–1 (Aye — Commissioner Morris and Commissioner Mortimer; Nay — Commissioner Grund).

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